Sep 17, 2009 — See The Wall Street Journal
There's no doubt that modern cheerleading -- a combination of dancing, tumbling and high-flying stunts -- is rough. But if you read the news of late, you'd think it's the world's most dangerous pastime. Cheerleading accounts for 65% of all female catastrophic injuries in high school and college, according to the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research.
