Just being able to hear my national anthem, see my flag, I definitely wanted to stand.” Tom Nichols: To Putin, Brittney Griner is a pawn. To the U.S., she’s a person. Although she stood for ...

Performing the national anthem is often one of the highlights of major sporting events in the United States. Sometimes, it is even more anticipated than the game itself. Who will sing? How will it ...

For the national anthem, removing the hat is a symbolic gesture ... Symbolism is a useful way of conveying ideas and rules succinctly. But the symbols are arbitrarily chosen, and we have to ...

But before the game singer-songwriter Harper Grace will sing the national anthem. Here in 2023, if you Google “anthem girl” you’ll get a few different young women and girls singing the ...