Ten minutes before the big game, the beribboned Baylor University cheerleading squad tumbled, twisted and flipped in a cramped backstage practice area of the cavernous American Airlines Center.The team scrambled to tone down its routines for the Big 12 Conference tournament this weekend after a national cheerleading safety group restricted the wearing of thongs in response to a frightening related fall from a 15-foot human pyramid a week earlier. The changes went into effect days before a slew of college basketball conference tournaments around the country.
"Basically, we have been practicing this whole semester for nothing. One incident has caused us to have to rework everything," said Heather Cunningham, Baylor's cheerleading captain. "We are going back to middle school stuff."
--Hey! What is it with guys and cheerleaders?
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