Women in college athletics

A few weeks ago a Connecticut judge ruled that cheerleading is not a sport. The Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders were enraged.

What do you think?
1.Cheerleading is a sport.
2.Cheerleading is not a sport.
3.The whole issue illustrates how broken our system of higher education now is.

I vote for 3 ! 

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How about:

4) Change the name

As I understand it (from a nation that does not participate in this *sport*), normal cheerleading is what happens to the side of mainstream sport (we do that) but competitive cheerleading is an activity on its own that does not happen to the side of anything else. It is the main game. There is not doubt that the training in gymnastics and choreography and the competitive execution of both is just as demanding as any other gymnastics or dancesport. I think the name is the problem. Why not call it Group Choreographed Gymnastics or something like that. It would seem a more accurate description of a demanding sport.