Word: sporting
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Both major tickets also sport Yale credentials: Bush attended Yale as an undergraduate, as did Gore's running mate, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who chaired The Yale Daily News as an undergraduate...
...high school cheer team competing for a national championship, was not just Hollywood fantasy. Cheerleading has come a long way from the days of busty, baton-twirling quarterback groupies. Many cheerleaders, of course, still serve primarily as perky high school spirit rousers. But 14 states now call cheerleading a sport, and all-star teams--strictly competitive groups run by local gyms--are exploding in popularity. Some 40 groups organize regional and national competitions, most of them between December and April. "Competitive cheer" has become the fastest-growing high school sport for girls; about a third of U.S. high schools have...
...cheered for a Pop Warner team before joining the all-star Shooting Stars in lieu of her high school cheerleading squad. "We only got to compete a few times. And, naturally, the fans were there to see football, not us. What we do is so intense, it's a sport unto itself...
...vertical Mason-Dixon line puts 38 teams in the East, and 23 in the West, reflecting the balance of power that usually reigns in the sport. The championship bid is not contingent upon winning one's division. The Crimson can lose the ECAC to a Cinderella team, but still be Eastern Champions based on its superior record throughout the year...
Perhaps the most important implication of NCAA legitimacy is that it gives the sport a real opportunity to expand. More athletes are drawn by the chance to compete for a NCAA Championship...