Modern cheerleading is more than just pom-poms and megaphones. From grade school to college, many cheerleading squads use daredevil stunts in their routines, and the practice is raising safety ...

The UF cheerleading team currently has 13 men and 24 women, divided into a combination of male-female stunt pairs and all-girl groups. The athletes spent most of the two-hour practice preparing ...

Abby Summers of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders revealed that she has to fluff her own pom poms for games, demonstrating the intricate process in a video shared to her TikTok on Monday, June 30.

Herkimer put together the first cheerleader-supply company, founded the National Cheerleaders Association, published the first cheerleading magazine (Megaphone), and authored two definitive works ...

Cheerleaders, with their micro-minis, tight mid-riff baring sweaters and iconic pom-poms, have been impressing male fans and rousing excitement among eager sports spectators in America for decades.

Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders. Rich Storry/Getty Since each strand has to be individually tended to, DiLorenzo's tutorial backs up Denton's claim about why the pom-pom fluffing process takes so long.

Cheerleader holding pom-poms during the University of Iowa's 48th Homecoming Weekend in Iowa City, Iowa, October 1959. Stan Wayman/The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty ...

Lawrence Herkimer, the founder of modern cheerleading and inventor of the pom-pom who first started offering summertime camps for the sport in 1948, died at age 89 in Dallas.

Abby Summers of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders revealed that she has to fluff her own pom poms for games, demonstrating the intricate process in a video shared to her TikTok on Monday, June 30.