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St. Clare Of Montefalco WINTER SPORTS MASS Sunday • February 4 • 9:00 am Celebrating Athletes In Our Community Super Sunday Sports Mass Lector Karen Newman Raised in Rochester Hills and Grand Blanc, professional singer, Karen Newman, is best known for being “the voice” of the Detroit Red Wings performing the National Anthem for this, her 28th year. Prior to the Wings, she sang the anthem for the Detroit Pistons during their Bad Boy years. She is also a writer, philanthropist, wife, mother and animal lover. Karen has six albums to her credit, a Christmas Show that has run over 16 years, and a hit song, Christmas Eve on Woodward Avenue. She has toured with Bob Seger, Kid Rock and has even hosted a radio show with Eddie Money. Newman is a spokesperson for a number of companies, does commercials, and is a regular performer at charity events, considering it to be part of her job as an ambassador for the Detroit Red Wings. Karen and her husband Dino live in West Bloomfield with their teenage twins Dylan and Kylie and have several cats, dogs and a horse. Lector An NBA broadcast legend, George Blaha has been the George Blaha radio and television play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons since the 1976-77 season. He is currently the lead play-by-play man on Fox Sports Detroit. Raised in Marshaltown, Iowa and Grayling, Michigan, he attended Notre Dame earning a degree in economics and received a MBA from the University of Michigan. Blaha has also anchored Michigan State Spartan football broadcasts as play-by-play voice for four decades. He was a 2008 inductee into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and a 2014 inductee into the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. As the longest tenured play-by-play broadcaster in the state, he has been the recipient of the Michigan Sports Broadcaster of the Year (1998, 2007) and the Ty Tyson Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcastinjg (2002). He resides in Troy with his wife Mary..

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