O, say, can you see Mark Cuban's point? No one even noticed lack of national anthem, so let it go
by Sam Fels from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5E0NJ)
Somehow it escaped most everyone's attention for 13 home games that the Dallas Mavericks weren't playing the national anthem before any of them, which pretty much tells you how important the tradition actually was in the first place. The Mavs hadn't been allowing fans into the arena until Monday's game, so there...