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Garth Brooks has been retired from the music scene since 2000 but the country singer has recently signed on with the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas to perform at the Danny Gans Theater beginning next year. The country star is expected to perform for 16 weeks shortly after New Year’s. Garth also recently had press conferences in both Nashville and Vegas to announce further details. If for some reason you don’t know who this guy is, Garth has sold over 220 million albums worldwide since his first album back in 1989 and currently lives in Oklahoma with his fellow country singer wife Trisha Yearwood.

Carrie Underwood exchanges a microphone for a softball bat this past Wednesday when she participated in the 19th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge which was held at Greer Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. The 26-year old American Idol alum played for the Grand Ole Opry Team while Dancing with the Stars cast Julianne Hough and boyfriend Chuck Wicks played on the other team, After Midnight. Carrie’s team won 11-5 after the country singer scored a run, hit a double and got an RBI. Who knew Carrie could play such good ball? She can have a career in sports if she wants to.

American Idol season 1 runner up Justin Guarini is a very desperate man. The has-been has recently posted a crappy song on his YouTube account with the accompanying message in the hopes of getting his tune on the soundtrack to ‘New Moon’, the second film in the ‘Twilight’ franchise. Justin wrote “Here’s a new song that I, along with two of Nashville’s finest writers- Shaye Smith and Tammy Hyler- put together expressly for the soundtrack of “New Moon”. If you like it, share it, and ask for it to be put in the new Twilight movie.” The song sucks and his desperate call for help matches the whiney sound of his voice on the song. Spare us.