At Sporting Events
"Sweet Caroline" is popular at sporting events. Boston's Fenway Park has played the song since at least 1997, and it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning since 2002 by the influence of Amy Tobey, a production agent responsible for the audio played over the park's loudspeakers. "She had noticed 'Sweet Caroline' was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers." On opening night of the 2010 season at Fenway Park, the song was performed (albeit abridged) by Diamond himself. It is also played at sporting events at the University of Pittsburgh and Iowa State University. The song is also played during television timeouts of Davidson College men's basketball games and gained national attention during the school's 2008 run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Penn State will no longer be playing the song at its football games. The Altoona Mirror reports this may be related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
The University of South Carolina Marching Band is known to play Sweet Caroline at football, basketball, and volleyball games, as well as at pep rallies and other events which the band attends.
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