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Lady Gaga Interview

March 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on Lady Gaga Interview 

Lady Gaga Interview, Lady Gaga has given her last interview “for a very long time.” The pop star’s chat with Oprah Winfrey, due to air this Sunday on OWN, will mark the start of a media hiatus for Gaga, who plans to enter a self-imposed exile, like a yoga-loving JD Salinger or something. She told Winfrey:

“Other than this interview, Oprah, I do not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time … No press, no television, if my mom calls and says, ‘Did you hear about…’ I shut it all off.” Because this is Lady Gaga, the inevitable next question is: what kind of marketing move is this?

I mean, is she attempting to play the mysterious recluse card, before reemerging in fifteen years with an album of eighteen-minute krautrock covers? Or is she genuinely tired of doing interviews? She certainly seems sick of the media, and told Oprah she doesn’t care what is written about her while she’s away from the spotlight:

“I don’t read a damn thing.”

For fans (I pointedly refuse to say “Little Monsters”) worried about Gaga withdrawal symptoms, the star will likely appear (briefly) in Men in Black III.

So what do we think, readers? Can one of pop’s most outspoken stars really avoid a microphone or camera for “a very long time”? Will you be glad of the peace, or miss the crazy fashions? And by promising “not to speak to anyone for a very long time,” does that mean her Twitter account, the first to reach 20 million followers, will also fall silent?

Syracuse UNC Asheville

March 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on Syracuse UNC Asheville 

Syracuse UNC Asheville, Syracuse was missing its starting center. North Carolina-Asheville thought the Orange got help from three men in striped shirts.

With Syracuse facing the kind of NCAA tournament history no team wants to make, the top-seeded Orange rallied for a 72-65 victory Thursday in the second round of the East Regional.

Two calls by the officials had the sellout crowd of 18,927 at Consol Energy Center – except for those wearing orange – booing throughout the final minute but it didn’t matter.

Syracuse made it 109-0 for No. 1 seeds against No. 16s since the NCAA went to a field of 64 in 1985.

“I don’t think luck had anything to do with this game today,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said, “and I think the better team won.”

The Orange were staring at NCAA tournament history. A No. 1 seed has never lost to a No. 16 seed, and they were trailing North Carolina-Asheville with just over 6 minutes to play.

“We gave it everything we had. We battled the best that we could,” Asheville coach Eddie Biedenbach said. “These guys are great. They deserved a better fate than they had today.”

Syracuse, which won the national championship in 2003, had already made negative history in the tournament, becoming the first No. 2 seed to lose to a 15 when it fell 73-69 to Richmond in 1991. The Orange managed to avoid adding another black mark by holding Asheville to one field goal over the final minute while they went 6 of 7 from the free throw line.

Syracuse was playing without 7-foot center Fab Melo, who was declared ineligible for academic reasons by the school and will miss the tournament.

“The fact that this game was close had nothing – nothing – to do with the center position,” Boeheim said.

Syracuse (32-2) will play eighth-seeded Kansas State in the third round on Saturday. The Wildcats beat Southern Mississippi 70-64.

The Bulldogs (24-10), who talked Wednesday about pulling off the upset, were led by J.P. Primm’s 18 points.

They led 34-30 at halftime – the third 16 to do that – but the Orange took the lead for good with 6:17 left on a turnaround jumper by reserve James Southerland, who had 15 points and a season-high eight rebounds.

“James has to continue to make the shots and I think he will,” Syracuse guard Scoop Jardine said. “I’m happy for him because he’s a big part of our offense and today he showed it.”

Southerland, who scored 13 points in the second half, had three of the Orange’s five 3-pointers.

“James came in, gave us a huge lift off the bench,” Boeheim said of the 6-foot-8 junior.

The Bulldogs got within three points three times in the final 1:04 but could get no closer as Syracuse made its free throws and the officials made a couple of controversial calls.

The first call that caused the crowd to react was a lane violation with 1:20 left. Jardine missed the front end of a 1-and-1 but Primm was called for passing the head of the key before Jardine let the shot go. Jardine got to shoot the front end again, made it, and made the second for a 64-58 lead.

“They gave me a second chance to make the shot and I made it,” Jardine said. “I got myself into a rhythm. I made every free throw from there on out because I do what I practice and believed in myself at that time and made the shots for us.”

Primm said: “They showed it on the replay, I think the crowd let him know that it wasn’t the right call. … Like I said, when it gets crunch time like that, like I say, everyone is human.”

With 35 seconds left and the Orange leading 66-63, the ball appeared to go out of bounds off Syracuse’s Brandon Triche but the officials pointed the other way and gave it to the Orange. Jardine made two free throws a second later.

Coordinator of Officiating John Adams said he would have given the ball to UNC Asheville on the inbounds play.

“The out of bounds is not reviewable and it is not a play we would discuss,” official Ed Corbett told a pool reporter. “I’m not going to comment further because it is a judgment call. It was a clear (lane) violation. The player released early, before the ball hit the rim. We’ve since watched the replay 20 times and it was the right call.”

Boeheim had his own take on the play with Triche.

“First of all, all the noise about the ball going out of bounds, I mean, Triche got pushed. That’s why it went out of bounds,” he said. “Maybe they missed the out of bounds, they missed the foul call. Those things equal out.”

Inexplicably the Orange kept shooting 3-pointers and missing. Despite having a huge height advantage – Asheville’s tallest starter was 6-foot-5, bigger only than the Syracuse guards – the Orange kept taking 3s against the Bulldogs’ 2-3 zone, which isn’t as well known as the one Syracuse has played for decades but was just as effective Thursday.

The height advantage didn’t do much for the Orange as far as rebounding went either as they had 33, one more than the Bulldogs. Then again, Syracuse was outrebounded by its opponents for the season.

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