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NEW YORK -- Its official: Lady Gaga will headline the Super Bowl halftime show next year.The NFL and Pepsi announced Thursday that the pop star will take the stage on Feb. 5, 2017, for the Pepsi Zero Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show at NRG Stadium in Houston, airing on Fox.?Gaga sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl earlier this year in Santa Clara, California. Beyonce, Bruno Mars and Coldplay headlined the halftime show.Gaga will release a new album, Joanne, on Oct. 21. The Grammy winners hits include Poker Face, Bad Romance, Born This Way and Applause.In the past, the NFL reportedly had sought to have the halftime performers pay for the right to play at the Super Bowl given its extreme value.To date, that hasnt happened.An NFL spokesperson told ESPN on Thursday that Lady Gaga did not pay the league to perform, nor did the league pay Gaga.A spokesperson for Pepsi told ESPN that the company, which again is sponsoring the halftime show, says it didnt pay Gaga either or specifically pay the NFL for her performance, on her behalf.Information from ESPNs Darren Rovell was used in this report.Pete Maravich Jazz Jersey . -- Matt Kuchar and Harris English ran away with the Franklin Templeton Shootout, shooting a 14-under 58 on Sunday in the final-round scramble to break the tournament course record. Tony Bradley Jersey . Wall made the comment in a speech to a Regina business crowd that included Lesnar. The U.S. wrestler and retired mixed martial artist says he was visiting his brothers farm in Saskatchewan and decided he wanted to hear what the premier had to say. http://www.jazzauthentic.com/kids-john-stockton-jazz-jersey/ . The phone hearing is scheduled for 4:30pm et/1:30pm pt. Winchester, who was not penalized for the hit, appeared to make contact with Kellys head early in the first period of Thursdays game in Boston. Karl Malone Jersey . Capitals head coach Adam Oates said Ovechkin was injured in the first period against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday and clarified it was not a head injury. Tony Bradley Jazz Jersey . The 43-year-old closer, in his 19th and final big league season, has said hed like to play the outfield. Yankees manager Joe Girardi says hes thinking about allowing Rivera to do it this weekend, when the Yankees finish their season with a three-game series at the Houston Astros.Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison said in an affidavit sent to the NFL that he never met nor communicated with the source of a media report that linked him and other players to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.Harrison has insisted that league officials have to provide credible evidence before he agrees to an interview. The NFL Players Association sent a letter on Harrisons behalf along with the signed affidavit to NFL executive Adolpho Birch on Monday.Neither the CBA nor the Policy state that a player must agree to an in-person interview based upon random, baseless verbal remarks or face discipline for a failure to cooperate with a league investigation, union attorney Heather M. McPhee wrote.In the absence of the existence of any documented, credible evidence, this affidavit constitutes reasonable cooperation by (Harrison).The other active players implicated by the Al-Jazeera report are Green Bay linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, and free-agent liinebacker Mike Neal, who played the past six seasons with the Packers.dddddddddddd Peyton Manning, who is now retired, also was cited in Al-Jazeeras doping report in December.The NFL first notified Matthews, Peppers, Harrison and Neal about its investigation into the report on Jan. 11.Al-Jazeera America reported allegations by Charlie Sly, who worked as an intern at an anti-aging clinic. But Sly later recanted his claims.I have met thousands of people during my career, but to the best of my knowledge and recollection, I have never met the individual who is apparently named Charles Sly, Harrison said in the affidavit.The 38-year-old Harrison, who was The Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year in 2008, also said: I have never violated the NFL Policy Performance Enhancing Substances.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '