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This piece from the Washington Post provides the background for this thread.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/title-ix-anniversary-maryland-cuts-cheerleading-but-was-it-ever-a-sport/2012/04/13/gIQA5EkRFT_story_2.html
The issue is not sports, but rather Title IX and gender equality.
Cheerleading is a particularly high profile face of it, not for the needed athleticism, but because it is easy to mock and use as an icon of government overreach. Like any other sport, it is open, in one form or another, to both genders, but is mostly seens as being for one and not the other. There is women's football, for example, but it isn't particularly high profile.
What are your thoughts on this issue?
I think it is a sport, as much as baseball, basketball, and football.