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.Lebron 12 Shoes Outlet . After a replay, the winner will meet Sunderland in the quarterfinals. Sagbo did well to control Sone Alukos right cross and fire past Brighton goalkeeper Peter Brezovan. Aluko was making his first start in four months after recovering from an Achilles injury. Buy Lebron 14 . With Parker having a quiet game for once, Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw provided the scoring as France won its first major basketball title by beating Lithuania 80-66 on Sunday. It was a victory that ended a decade of frustration for Parker and a talented French generation, which lost the final against Spain two years ago and took bronze in 2005. http://www.lebronjamessneakerswholesale.com/lebron-james-on-sale.html . In the response filed Wednesday to the complaint by 30-year-old Alexander Bradley, attorneys say the former University of Florida player is invoking his Fifth Amendment right that protects people from incriminating themselves. Cheap Lebron James Shoes . PETERSBURG, Fla. Lebron Shoes Deal . It was just business as usual for the Thunder at home. Durant scored 32 points and the Thunder beat the Bulls 107-95 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win.NEW YORK -- Dont tell the Philadelphia Phillies that late September games dont matter to teams not in contention.The Phillies battled the New York Mets at every opportunity and had the NL East rivals just two-outs from a fourth consecutive loss on two different occasions, but the young Philadelphia bullpen was unable to complete the task.Jose Reyes hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth inning and Asdrubal Cabrera hit a three-run drive in an 11th-inning comeback to lift the Mets to a dramatic 9-8 win over the Phillies on Thursday night that kept the Mets tied for the NL wild-card lead.This was the toughest loss of the season, Mackanin added. Our guys did a great job offensively. We should have had them. We just made a lot of bad pitches and let them right back in.The Mets used 27 players, including 10 pitchers, to win a struggle that took 4 hours, 23 minutes.Thats the thing about September, Mackanin added. They have a lefty for every righty I bring in and vice versa and thats what makes it so difficult.Philadelphia went ahead 8-6 in the 11th when A.J. Ellis hit an RBI single off Jeurys Familia and Jim Henderson (2-2) walked Maikel Franco with the bases loaded.Pinch-hitter Michael Conforto walked against Edubray Ramos (1-3) with one out in the bottom half, Reyes singled and Cabrera, who has been playing with a strained left knee tendon, sent a slider soaring to right, setting off a wild celebration. The Mets had been 0-63 this year when trailing after eight innings.As soon as I hit it, I knew the ball was going to be out, Cabrera said.A member of the Phillies staff was consoling Ramos at his locker after the game.He hung a slider, Mackanin said. Just a bad pitch.The extra frames were needed because the struggles of closer Jeanmar Gomez continued. Gomez came into the game having allowed six earned runs over his last three appearances and fell behind Reyes in blowing his sixth blown save oof the season.dddddddddddd New York trailed 6-4 before pinch-hitter Brandon Nimmo singled off Gomez leading off the ninth and Reyes sent a changeup over the right-field wall with one out.The last two weeks have been really tough on me, Gomez said.Mackanin feels that his young relievers can use this game as a learning experience.I think that the learning experience is that, against a team like this, or any major league team, you cant make mistakes, you got to throw quality pitches, he said. If you do, youre going to be successful and if you dont, youre going to get hurt.Starter Adam Morgan allowed three earned runs in five innings of work. Phillies starters have allowed three earned runs or fewer in 19 consecutive starts.Cameron Rupp and Ryan Howard homered on consecutive pitches in the fifth inning to give the Phillies a 3-2 lead. Howards homer was his 47th against the Mets, tops among active players against the Mets.TRAINERS ROOMMets: LHP Steven Matz was scratched from his scheduled start on Friday because of continued discomfort in his left shoulder. He hasnt pitched since Aug. 14.Phillies: OF Tyler Goeddel was diagnosed with a concussion after getting hit by a Chris Beck pitch on Wednesday. . RHP Luis Garcia was hit on the right ankle by a sixth-inning line drive off the bat of James Loney. Garcia remained in the game.HAIL, CESAR!Phillies 2B Cesar Hernandez extended his career-best streak of consecutive games reaching base to 27 with a fourth-inning triple. Its the longest on-base streak by a Phillie since Chase Utley reached in 28 straight in 2011.UP NEXTRHP Jeremy Hellickson (12-9) starts against the Mets for the fifth time this year on Friday. He has not allowed an earned run in his last 15 1/3 innings. RHP Gabriel Ynoa (1-0) will start in place of Matz. ' ' '