Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

It’s amazing how creative producers are when it comes to coming up with reality programs that showcase not just something interesting out of the ordinary lives of some, but also entertains us with the sometimes wacky, at times overly dramatic real life events of individuals who bare their hearts and souls to the camera. Like any other reality series, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders pits individuals to compete for a spot in one of the most admired dance groups in the country. Last season, we not only saw a fresh batch of aspiring dancers, but also some familiar faces who have returned for another shot at fame, like Meagan Flaherty, Natalie Woods, Candice Carr and Miranda James.

Viewers would be glad to know that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team is returning for a third season. Get ready for So You Think You Can Dance, cheerleader style!

CMT announced today that Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team is returning for its third season on October 4, Saturday at 9:30pm. Like the previous seasons of the reality series, the third installment will look into cheerleading tryouts for one of NFL’s most popular teams. As per usual, the auditions will begin with a thousand or more vying to move on to the next phase of the competition at the team’s Texas Stadium. Throughout the course of the series, several challenges will be thrown at them, and depending on how they will be handling it, some will have to be dropped from the competition.

No cheerleaders in Cuttack ODI

The fifth One-Day International to be played between India and England Nov 26 in Cuttack will have no showcase of glamorous bikini or even sari clad cheerleaders applauding the cricketers.

The Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) had earlier decided that for the first time ever city's Barabati Stadium will witness cricket with a touch of glamour. The hot new quotient of the game was sought to be localised by putting cheerleaders in Indian saris.

But an OCA official said the association later chose against having the pinch of glamour -- not even in traditional attires -- in the ODI.

"(Board of Control for Cricket in India) BCCI had no objection to it. But it requires the consent of the match referee (Roshan Mahanama) who will arrive here Nov 24," OCA secretary Ashirbad Behera said.

"If we prepare (cheerleaders for the game) and the referee rejects our proposal at the last moment, there will be a lot of confusion. That is why we decided to cancel the programme," he said.

However, it is being widely speculated that the OCA's latest decision comes after opposition from a group of moral activists and insiders.

Cricket first saw cheerleaders when business tycoon Vijay Mallya's IPL team took the field in Twenty20 IPL championship earlier this year.

Cheerleaders ditch revealing shorts after complaints from spectators

Fans of the Vandals, the University of Idaho’s American football team, were upset that the cheerleaders’ two-piece uniforms – tops little bigger than a bra, and short skirts that looked like more hot pants – showed too much flesh.

Bruce Pitman, the university dean, said that although there were “a number of fans who liked them”, the outfits had now been deemed inappropriate.

Some of the cheerleaders had also complained that the outfits were not comfortable and did not suit their figures.

"Girls are just bigger these days, not everybody's a size zero," said Shelly Robson, a fundraiser for the university's athletics department. "We're not being a bunch of prudes."

The new uniforms, ordered at a cost of $2,200 (£1,200), feature less revealing tops and skirts that are six inches longer. The outfits will not arrive for a few weeks, so for their most recent game the cheerleaders wore football jerseys and black shorts.

This is the second time this year that the Vandals have altered uniforms for taste reasons. The American football team took the university logo – an “I” – off the seat of their trousers after the first game of the season.

Rob Spears, the university's athletic director, says nobody realised just how the logo placed in the centre of the players' behinds would look before they tried on their uniforms.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Women's Beach Volleyball : photos

Beach Volleyball Photos - Beijing Olympics 2008

Olympic Cheerleaders

Girls of football - EURO 2008 Championship in Austria-Switzerland

Cheerleaders - Beijing Olympics 2008

From about 5,000 applications, 297 candidates were chosen from a dozen Beijing colleges and 40 students from Shanghai to be 'Olympic victory ceremony volunteers'.




Forget the skimpily clad cheerleaders.The immaculate hostesses handing out medals at the Olympics have won the spectator vote for glamour. Wearing Chinese silk dresses with their hair pulled back tightly into neat buns, the hostesses are beautiful, elegant and their eyes are three-tenths the length of their faces, as required by the Chinese selection committee.


Two wearing 'cheongsam', or long dresses, stand either side of the podium while
three or more in knee-length dresses hold platters bearing the medals
and bouquets of nine red roses, with red a lucky colour in China
and nine meaning everlasting. But although the role looks simple,
in line with China's bid to host the perfect Games,
these hostesses have been meticulously chosen and trained.


In photo - Chinese young women place books on their heads for balancing during
an etiquette training class at a vocational school for
For the 'Beijing 2008 Olympic Games medal ceremonies' hostesses in Beijing, China.
The polished young women practice proper posture by balancing books on their
heads while squeezing a sheet of paper between the knees.
A perfect smile is one that reveals six to eight white teeth,
a skill honed by hours in front of a mirror while carefully clasping a chopstick
between the canines.


A Chinese instructor gives exercise lessons to the volunteers assigned
for Beijing Olympic victory ceremonies at a training school in Beijing.
Over 300 volunteers have been selected for victory ceremonies. (AP photo)


'In the standing sessions, we have to stand still and smile for half an hour or more.
We also run about a 1,000 metres every day for physical conditioning,'
one of the hostesses, Ma Sha, 20, told Reuters ahead of the Games.
China's 1.3 billion people are crazy about sports, but not cheerleaders.
Women here who have embraced the all-American phenomenon hope that
plans to have cheerleaders perform at this summer's Olympic games will bring some glamour to their profession in China and get more fans fired up. (AP photo) (Content: Reuters)