is that a picture of an athlete? a sportsman? compare that to this photo, a young man on my own staff, former male cheerleader, lifting a woman over his head with one hand, i defy you, john daley. to even lift a small girl over your heard. even a child. you be the judge. joining us now, president association of girls and women in sports. also with us is mindy hilton, head cheerleading coach at georgia tech university. as a coach, mindy, how do you view this ruling? well, i mean, i understand it. it s definitely a debatable rule. but i don t think the ruling this morning is saying that cheerleaders are not athletes. they definitely are. the ruling is just saying, that is not going to be a title 9 ncaa sport. so golf s a sport?
american people are facing two economic storms that continue to gather more strength. the first one, unemployment. weekly jobless claims rising to the highest level in five months, completely erasing any jobs created by the temporary census hiring. meanwhile, a far different story story than we heard from one of our nation s top economists just a year ago. we think that the unemployment rate will probably peak early in 2010 and then come down relatively slowly after that. currently we don t think it will be at 10%. we re somewhere in the nines. there s this rosy prediction made on national tv immediately before the housing bubble collapsed sending the economy into an unprecedented tail spin. the housing prices will slow. i think it s mostly a localized problem and not something that will affect the national economy. fast forward to this morning, existing home sales plummeting 5% in june. that s with the federal tax credits that the obama administration promised would pr