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By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyOnce a cheerleader, always a cheerleader. Just ask my mom, who proudly cheered on her Rison High School Wildcats for four years. She's always contended that cheerleading was a sport just as much as football or basketball even back in the 1950s, when girls wore long skirts, shook their pompoms, and yelled into a megaphone. Cheerleading has come a long way since the days when cheerleaders were chosen by football players instead of by competitive tryouts. The 2000 "Bring It On" movie -- and its four straight-to-video sequels -- about competing high school cheerleading teams showed that ...
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