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A singing group called Madison Rising, who refer to themselves as “America’s most patriotic rock band,” performed the National Anthem before the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona on Saturday. We are not exaggerating when we …
Five-time Grammy Award winning music artist James Taylor was on hand at Fenway Park on Thursday night to perform the National Anthem before Game 2 of the World Series. It did not start well. In yet another reminder that even famous artists can become …
Poor Alexis Normand. Prior to a Memorial Cup game between the Halifax Mooseheads and Portland Winterhawks on Saturday in Saskatoon, the Canadian singer delivered one of the worst renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner we have ever heard. Normand got …
Poor Jeff Fuller. The tenor was supposed to sing the national anthems for Canada and the US prior to the Toronto Blue Jays-Houston Astros spring training game on Wednesday, but he botched both versions. As captured in the video above, Fuller stumbled …
William Dillon spent nearly half of his life behind bars after being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Thanks in part to the help he received from the Innocence Project, the now 52-year-old Dillon was released from prison in 2008, where he …
At the Arab Shooting Championships in Kuwait on Thursday, Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan won gold in the 75 target event, but during her medal ceremony, instead of “My Kazakhstan,” she was forced to sit through the spoof national anthem …
As the new sheriff in town and a guy who is known for not taking any crap, Ozzie Guillen likely has several rules in place for the upcoming season in Miami. However, he already knows which rule is at the top of that list. All of the members of the …
Sometimes when I see a National Anthem screw-up I can’t help but wonder how often this happened before the internet era. I’m sure musicians and artists messed up singing the National Anthem just as often 20 or 30 years ago, but it was …
We’ve seen some pretty bad national anthems at sporting events before but I don’t believe the reaction was nearly as harsh as Buck Showalter’s was to this one: Classic. There was as much incredulousness in that face as Mr. Hand had …
Either singer Christina Aguilera was on the take from BoDog to beat the under on the length of her anthem, or FOX told her to tighten it up so they could squeeze in more commercials, because Aguilera left out an entire line. Check out this video of …
I guess you never had to attend elementary school in order to become a singer because it’s pretty impossible to get this far in life and not know the words to the National Anthem. How many times have you heard it before? You sung it growing up, …
