Rick Reilly Summary

Cheerleaders are athletes too. They practice just as much as everyone else, sometimes even more. They get hurt just like everyone else, but only more severely. In “Sis! Boom! Bah! Humbug!” Rick Reilly attempts to get people of his side of cheerleading as a sport or in his mind not a sport. He does not want girls cheering on the other athletes at sporting events when they could be in the event instead. Rick Reilly conveys his message through a sandwich of logos, pathos, logos statements; this was very effective in my eyes even if at points he turned the majority of readers away with sarcastic anecdotes, but he manages to bring most back through his use of assertions.
Rick Reilly begins his article by attempting to make people think cheerleading is one of the most dangerous sports that high school’s offer. He backs this idea through the concepts of logos. He uses a report by The Physician and Sportsmedicine to back his point that cheerleading is dangerous. This was a good use of authority. Rick Reilly follows this up with an assertion that cheerleading is more dangerous than football (100). This start was a good way to
He starts throwing punches and being aggressive with his statements. He uses authority to say that cheerleaders are not all perfect. There were professional cheerleaders that do drugs, and do whatever it takes to be skinny, even if it’s not healthy. This is a good point, but he goes about the wrong way of saying it. He uses sarcasm to back this statement and it just comes out wrong. After that he shows his true reasoning for writing the article. He comes out and says it might be a hard topic to write against. Cheerleaders are like baseball, an American tradition, but someone needed to stand out against them and be the bad guy. Women have had equal rights for a long time now and do not have to show off the guys any more. This is the point he has been trying to make throughout the whole