National Anthem

NFL teams opening their seasons in empty stadiums knelt, locked arms or raised fists in protest for pregame ceremonies on the first full Sunday of the football season.

Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs offered a symbolic gesture of support for racial injustice ahead of the NFL’s first game of the season Thursday, NBC News reports.

Saints quarterback Drew Brees says he’ll remain standing for “The Star Spangled Banner,” but professed respect and support for those who protest racism and social injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.

Players and coaches from the New Orleans Pelicans, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers knelt alongside one another before the first games of the NBA restart.

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” will be performed live or played before “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to each NFL game during Week 1 and the league is  considering putting names of victims of police brutality on helmet decals or jersey patches, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press.

The U_S_ women’s national team wants the U_S_ Soccer Federation to repeal the anthem policy it instituted after Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Raul Martinez and Michael Holley discuss Drew Brees’ comments and apology, the NBA’s plan to return and if the MLB has a chance at returning this summer.

Video appears to show President Donald Trump at a Super Bowl watch party on Sunday pretending to conduct the band as the national anthem played, NBC News reported.

Two New Hampshire police officers have had a little run in with a squirrel in a pursuit caught on video. A Facebook post on Tuesday by the Stratham Police Department shows the two officers opening a garage door entry when the squirrel comes running inside.

A duo of golden-piped Boston Police officers is back at it again this week. After a hit performance of “God Bless America” last summer, Boston Police Department Officers Kim Tavares and Stephen McNulty took up the microphone this week to sing the National Anthem in celebration of the Fourth of July.

A determined and talented mudslide survivor took center field Thursday at Dodger Stadium to sing the national anthem.

Finalists from across Massachusetts were belting and duking it out at the T.D. Garden Wednesday for a chance to sing the anthem on home ice. The Boston Bruins announced they were looking for performers after their star-spangled singer retired last season. Those auditioning do not have to fill the tux, but they do have to fill the shoes of Rene...

If you think you’re great at belting out the national anthem, the Boston Bruins are looking for you!

The touching moment happened at a graduation in Limestone County, Alabama.

Fergie was tasked with singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at tonight’s NBA All-Star Game – a task that she seemed to fall short of on Sunday night. Before the game, the singer slinked up to the microphone in a little black dress and gave a bluesy and somewhat unusual rendition of the national anthem that did not appear go over well...

Mike Ditka has been known to speak his mind on a thing or two in his career – and that’s certainly what the former Chicago Bears coach did before the team’s big Monday Night Football game.

Vice President Mike Pence was in attendance for the Indianapolis Colts-San Francisco 49ers game on Sunday, but he wasn’t there for long. Thom Jensen reports.

Unlike many players at Monday night’s football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals, singer Jordin Sparks didn’t take a knee. But she did make a silent statement of her own through a note written on her hand. The black ink read, “PROV 31:8-9”. The Bible verse from the Book of Proverbs reads, “Speak up for those who...