"Cheer" Blogs & Blog Posts

Jerry Harris, the former college cheerleader, who skyrocketed to fame as one of the breakout stars of the hit Netflix docuseries Cheer, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for crimes that include soliciting sex and graphic content from minors. A...

The football field is perhaps the last place one might expect to see a male athlete in a bedazzled lavender top with a matching choker. But as the NFL cheerleading audition season kicks off, the boys are back on the sidelines and sparkling—literall...

Cassidy Cerny, a 20-year-old sophomore at Indiana University, didn’t think what happened last week during the Hoosiers’ March Madness men’s basketball game was all that remarkable.Read more...

Jada Wooten is not a blend-into-the-background sort of athlete. The 20-year-old former Trinity Valley Community College veteran cheerleader, who became a newly minted star of Netflix’s sophomore season of Cheer and one of the few Black women on the...

Jada Wooten is not a blend-into-the-background sort of athlete. The 20-year-old former Trinity Valley Community College veteran cheerleader, who became a newly minted star of Netflix’s sophomore season of Cheer and one of the few Black women on the...

In the second season of Netflix’s Cheer, viewers receive a masterclass in how to center and give voice to the experiences of the victims of alleged child sex abuse. The show addresses the sexual misconduct allegations made regarding Season 1 breako...

There’s a scene in the second season of Netflix’s hit show Cheer, which dropped Wednesday, where La’Darius Marshall and another of his Navarro College cheer teammates are at home discussing their disgraced former teammate, Jerry Harris. How cou...