There is in the American consciousness for notable performances of the National Anthem at sporting events. But for sheer emotional joy, it's hard to top what happened on April 27, 2003.
The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.03.2012
The Fray, the band that brought you the seminal hit "How To Save a Life," performed the National Anthem at the NCAA Championship game last night, and ...
Posted 01.24.2012
Aerosmith frontman and current "American Idol" judge Steven Tyler kicked off the AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Baltimore ...
Posted 12.30.2011
A state lawmaker in Indiana has introduced a bill that would set specific "performance standards" for renditions of the national anthem. The legisl...
The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 12.21.2011
From "American Idol"'s Scotty McCreery flubbing the words to Michael Bolton's cheat sheet, these stars didn't do so well when singing the patriotic ba...
Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011
If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.
Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 08.31.2011
Why don't we sing in America? Why don't we have awesome drinking songs? Or sports songs? Why is our "go to" chanting U.S.A.? I feel like our capabilities far exceed these three letters.
Alan Singer | Posted 08.22.2011
I spent Father's Day afternoon with a friend at Citi Field in Queens catching the Mets versus the Angels in inter-league play. It was a beautiful day;...
Len Berman | Posted 06.18.2011
The champion Lakers lost their opening playoff game to New Orleans, while the Celtics knocked off the Knicks on a clutch Ray Allen three-pointer.
Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011
While all of us who have grown up in the United States have been raised hearing the National Anthem from birth, it's frighteningly easy to forget portions of it.
Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011
On the home page of AOL News last week I encountered this opinion piece by Kevin Blackistone, "Time to Turn Off National Anthem Before Sports Events,"...
Lorenzo Candelaria | Posted 06.17.2011
Christina Aguilera's opening anthem on one of America's biggest feast days was roundly criticized because it fell short of a proper offering.
Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
Look, I know the cost of a Super Bowl ad is ridiculous, and promotional budgets for books aren't exactly what you'd call big. But at some point, don't you have to take a risk?
Posted 05.25.2011
Oh say can you see... where Christina Aguilera went wrong? The Grammy Award-winner sang the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl on Sunday night,...
Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
While these are all good suggestions that I hope will someday be the law of our land, there's a problem we need to get to first: the desecration of our national anthem.
Posted 05.25.2011
A member of the Eli Young Band botched the singing of the national anthem before the Chiefs-Broncos game on Sunday. The video shows someone try to whi...
Andrei Markovits | Posted 05.25.2011
The iconography of a national team's players singing the anthem has lent the World Cup a nationalistic air and martial demeanor that did not exist in soccer until sometime in the 1990s
Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011
The oldest NFL player, Giants punter Jeff Feagles, is expected to retire today. Grandpa Brett Favre... still up in the air.
Dave Hollander | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not really a collector of bobbleheads or such similar memorabilia but I keep my Lima figurine on my desk. Not only because it reminds me of my Star-Spangled night in Newark but because I really like it.
AP | CARLY EVERSON | Posted 05.25.2011
GOSHEN, Ind. — For more than a century, there was no playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Goshen College – a small Christian college w...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
A scant 21.2% of gold-medal winners in these Games actually sang their entire national anthem, with an additional 18.2% mustering bits and pieces whil...
Nikki Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
As soon as the reality that I had actually just won an Olympic gold medal hit, I knew I had to find my soon-to-be-husband, Michael, and my parents.
Hayes Permar | Posted 05.25.2011
We're in Star-Spangled season when football, basketball and hockey overlap. This means there's a scramble to fill game slates with national anthem singers. It also means some renditions will be butchered.
Hip Hop Music | Posted 05.25.2011
A new video shows Jessica Simpson displaying her infamous over-the-top facial expressions while belting out the National Anthem at the AT&T National g...
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011
Today on Iceland's Independence Day the national anthem has been a real tear jerker for me, evoking in me a sadness and heartache that my brain usually reserves for funerals.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.27.2012