Ex-cop pleads guilty to licking woman’s boot
Not a Montreal-specific story, but I couldn’t resist the headlines Ex-Quebec cop caught licking woman’s boot pleads guilty or Un policier lécheur de bottes plaide coupable. A onetime SQ investigator had attended a cheerleading competition “sans avoir d’enfant qui y participait.” Keep your kinks to yourself, copper.
(By the way, I had not realized till recently that cheerleading exists in itself, rather than applying to a specific sporting competition. Like… why?)
azrhey 10:47 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
I have a friend whose daughter competes in cheerleading and it is a sport in itself, those are impressive gymnastics and acrobatics. checking videos of professional competitions shows the skill levels involved.
Not my thing, but I’ve noticed that the more professional teams have little to do with heu cheering another sports team.
Kate 11:47 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
Is the audience supposed to cheer, as they would if these were actual sports matches?
I mean, I assumed cheerleading meant that you hired this hyper little group of underdressed young women to encourage the crowd to cheer for a sportsball team during a match. But if there’s no team, and no match…?
Josh 12:08 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
Cheerleading competitions are cheered for in the same way other competitions are, Kate. Think along the lines of a gymnastics meet, or a figure skating championship.
Kate 12:29 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
I guess things get detached. I know people who aren’t religious who sing in a choir that constantly does devotional Christian classical music which has become detached from the ritual purposes for which it was composed, for example. So I suppose it’s similar.
H. John 12:37 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
@Kate Cheerleading, either side-line or All-Star (two different sports), involve over 4 million American athletes.
Like other cheerleading organizations (e.g. the Catholic Church), the last few years have seen them making major headlines over monopolization (Varsity Sports & Bain Capital) and sexual predators.
Matt Stoller has done a lot of reporting on the topic:
Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cheerleading-monopolies-and-sexual
and
Antitrust and the Fall of a Cheerleading Giant
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-and-the-fall-of-a-cheerleading
Nicholas 13:53 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
I am shocked, shocked I tell you that sexual predators would attend or even own competitions with underdressed teenage girls. I probably won’t find more info on this hyperlocal blog, so let me open a US politics vertical for the first time in a decade to see what they’re doing about this….
Meezly 14:42 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
Guess you haven’t seen the trailblazing 2000 movie, Bring It On?
Kate 15:14 on 2026-03-05 Permalink
Me? No, never heard of it.