Of all the things America has given the world, few are so life-changing as Cheerleaders. Football and Basketball have cheerleaders, but it is really Baseball that should have cheerleaders. People think Cheerleaders are an American invention, however, cheerleaders have a long history, because it seems that every culture around the world has had maidens in a state of undress perform during ceremonies.

I like to go to newspapers from other English-speaking countries to get a different perspective on what is going on, to escape the rah-rah myopic view of the USA mainstream press. So I went to the AOL Australia website, which aggregates Australian news, and what do I see?

PHL cheerleader pic on AOL Australia

I then happen by the NBC11 website , a TV station in the San Francisco area and see the same thing:

Cheerleader pic on NBC11 website San Francisco

The same pic showing up all over the world. We can thank the wire services for this.