Adele Dazeem, er, Idina Menzel, and John Legend will reportedly perform the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful, respectively” at this year’s Super Bowl. Menzel is probably currently best known for her song “Let It Go,” which she sang as her character Elsa in the Disney 2013 smash animated hit Frozen. The song, which Menzel performed at the 2014 Oscars, won Best Original Song there. Then John Travolta butchered her name in truly epic fashion. The acclaimed stage actress is also currently starring in Broadway’s “If/Then,” a story of a woman and multiple paths she could have taken during her life. “If/Then,” which will close in March, was nominated for the Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Actress in a Musical for Menzel’s performance. Menzel also starred on Broadway in “Wicked,” in which she portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West made famous in “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Rent.” Those who have performed America’s National Anthem at the Super Bowl recently include singer Renée Fleming, Alicia Keys, and Kelly Clarkson. Super Bowl National Anthems: U-S-A! U-S-A! 1. Kelly Clarkson National Anthem Kelly Clarkson nailed the national anthem at Super Bowl XLVI. Watch the American Idol champion show off her amazing voice here. Meanwhile, Grammy-winning recording artist and certified heart throb Legend will perform “America the Beautiful” at some point during the NFL title game. The halftime show will feature a performance by Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz, “an incredible rock & roll icon, a guitar god,” as Perry called her accompaniment. Recent performers at Super Bowl halftime shows have included Bruno Mars, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, Madonna, and Nicki Minaj . Are you excited for this year’s star-studded roster of singers at the biggest sporting and pop culture event of the year? Or were you hoping for others? Hit the comments to let us know! 17 Awesome Super Bowl Commercials 1. Bar Rafaeli Super Bowl Commercial Bar Rafaeli makes out with a nerd in an awesome Super Bowl commercial.
Remember those four Vanderbilt football players who were dismissed from the team year before last for forcing sex on a female student ? Two of the accused are currently on trial and the details of the alleged incident continue to horrify us… According to NY Daily News reports : Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey are each charged with five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. Vandenburg also faces additional charges of tampering with evidence and unlawful photography. Four former players are accused of raping the unconscious female neuroscience student in June 2013, but two will testify in the case. Both defense attorneys warned jurors about the two other former players who are charged in the case: Brandon Banks and Jaborian “Tip” McKenzie are expected to testify against Vandenburg and Batey. Video appears to show Vandenburg carrying the victim from a car outside the building into the dorm, according to testimony from Vanderbilt University Police Lt. Donnie Harville. Players were apparently seen on video dragging the unconscious woman down the hall. They giggled, shot video and sent text messages while they sexually abused her in an assault that began in a hallway, the prosecutor alleged. Thurman described in explicit detail how one former player assaulted her with a water bottle while a teammate egged him on. The prosecutor said one of the players passed out condoms and assaulted her. And one of the former players urinated on her and made a racial statement, Thurman alleged. Three of the ex-players are black and one is white. The victim is white. Disgusting… Talk about adding insult to injury. The poor woman was raped AND urinated on! Batey and Vandenburg are blaming the school’s “culture of binge drinking and promiscuity” for their role in the incident. None of the accused were of legal drinking age at the time. “I think the proof will be very clear at the end of the trial that alcohol played a role in what happened in that dorm room,” Worrick Robinson, an attorney who represents Batey, told jurors. He said Batey was so drunk that he blacked out that night. Robinson also told jurors that there is no evidence of Batey’s DNA in the dorm room and no evidence of his fingerprints on a condom box. What do you think is an appropriate punishment for such a crime? It seems like this happens time and time again with young athletes — especially football. What is it about sports that seems to attract these situations? We send our prayers out to the victim. We hope she’s able to recover from the trauma of this. APImages
Most baseball fans have heard tales of hall of famer Wade Boggs’ legendary consumption of alcohol. The most famous story is that Boggs once downed 64 Miller Lites during a cross-country flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Let us save you some math: 64 12-ounce beers consumed over the course of a 6-hour flight should equal one profoundly sh-tfaced ballplayer. Except apparently not in this case, because the best part of the legend is that Bogg’s rose bright and early the next day and played one of the best games of his career. Better yet, he actually drank way more beer than initially reported. Here’s an interview from 2005 in which Boggs cannily denies that 64 is the correct number: Wade Boggs: Beer Drinking Legend Nice PR move, Boggsy. Most folks probably assumed that Wade meant that he consumed fewer beers than initially reported. But as actor Charlie Day revealed to Jimmy Fallon last night that, when Boggs filmed a cameo for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia recently, he revealed that the feat was far more impressive than anyone ever imagined. Charlie Day Talks Wade Boggs 107?!?! That’s like Wilt Chamberlain casually revealing that he actually banged more like a million women. Obviously, Boggs could be full of it, but who cares? Like hangover-free beer , the Boggs Bender of whatever year it was (He doesn’t remember.) is something we want to believe in! Watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia online for more hooch heroics and remember – don’t try this at home. 14 Scandalous Sports Stories 1. LIAR! Lance Armstrong denied it and denied it, but he eventually came clean: yes, he cheated to win every Tour de France.
While sports fans are busy cheering their favorite teams through the playoffs (Go Seahawks!) to see who will be facing off in the Super Bowl, music fans are counting down to their own unmissable event: the annual bonanza of the halftime show. And while we already knew that Katy Perry was going to bring her… Read more »
President Barack Obama, an unabashed sports fan, was moved to publicly acknowledge the impact of Stuart Scott#39;s life. “I will miss Stuart Scott,” said Obama in a statement released by ESPN PR Sunday. “Twenty years ago, Stu helped usher in a new way to talk about our favorite teams and the day#39;s best plays. For much of those twenty years, public service and campaigns have kept me from my family — but wherever I went, I could flip on the TV and Stu and his colleagues on SportsCenter were t
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