She scores!

Katy Perry performed her first U.S. concert since splitting from hubby Russell Brand in Indianapolis, Ind., Saturday night, delivering a party-starting nine-song set for guests at the DIRECTV Super Saturday Night Hosted by Mark Cuban and Peyton Manning.

And the pop star seemed to have Super Bowl fever: Sporting a glittery, football-themed top and high-cut grey spandex shorts, Perry kicked off the show at 11:45 p.m. by bursting through a banner emblazoned with her name, just like a hometown gridiron hero.

“Who else is excited for Madonna?” she asked later on, referring to Queen of Pop’s Sunday halftime show. “That’s the only reason that I came!” (Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes, was spotted at Perry’s concert.)

Perry, 27, made no references to Brand, 36, throughout the set, but she did jokingly give a shout out to one special fellow who was on her mind. “This one goes out to Tim Tebow,” she said, before launching into her single “Peacock.”

Shaquille O’Neal, Neil Patrick Harris and partner David Burtka were among the celeb guests who caught her set from the side of the stage, while Chris Meloni and Scott Wolf made appearances.

Post-show, Perry partied with her pals in a roped-off area in the center of the room. Says an insider, “She was having the best time and was in such a great mood.”

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As the New England Patriots prepare to face off against the New York Giants in Indianapolis, all eyes will be on the two men leading the way: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Comparing the two may be tough, but because they’re both so easy on the eyes, PEOPLE.com is happily sizing up Brady, 34, and Manning, 31, from how they work to how they play.

Showdown

Last time they met in uniform, Brady – who’s thrown 300 touchdowns and passed 39,979 yards in his career – didn’t leave the field victorious. Manning – who has 185 touchdowns and 27,579 passing yards to his name – helped the Giants secure a 20-24 win over the Patriots on their opponent’s own turf at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., last November.

As if that wasn’t reason enough to seek vengeance: The Patriots lost the 2008 Super Bowl to the Giants, 17-14.

Their Cheerleaders

Brady has no need to play the field, with wife Gisele Bündchen – the world’s highest-paid supermodel – by his side. Together since 2006, they have a son, Benjamin, 2. (Brady also has a 4-year-old son, John, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.)

Manning has a very special fan base of his own: his wife of three years, Abby, and their daughter, Ava, who turns 1 in March. Talent runs in the Manning clan. His older brother is Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (who calls the Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Super Bowl will be held this year, home), and his father is NFL legend Archie Manning.

Body Building

The scores are tied when it comes to Brady and Manning’s abilities to rock their football uniforms. So how do two of the NFL’s hunkiest hard bodies stay at the top of their games?

In a previous interview, Brady said he clocks in 40 to 60 minutes of cardio six days a week, with weightlifting four days a week.

But don’t forget the basics: No workout session is complete for Manning without a combination of regular stretching and foam rolling. “My father always stressed stretching when we were younger,” he told Men’s Health. “It’s the main reason I’m able to stay healthy.”

Playtime

Both also know how to embrace a little down time. Manning recently told reporters that his “go-to show” is the classic, Seinfeld, and he also tunes in to Modern Family.

Watching TV is nice – but Brady takes it up a notch. In 2009, he played golf with the Entourage guys in a cameo on the now-defunct HBO show.

Good Sports

When not helping their teams on the field, neither quarterback hesitates when it comes to lending a helping hand.

Just last summer, Brady hosted the second-annual Tom Brady Football Challenge to benefit one of his favorite charities, Best Buddies International, an organization that works with people with intellectual disabilities. (His wife was equally recognized as one of the most generous celebrities by Forbes.)

Also doing good over the summer, Manning helped Samsung raise $1.4 million at a “Hope for Children” gala in advocacy of kids’ health. “This is a great cause,” he told ESPN. “I love doing things to help children.”

So, tell us: Which one are you rooting for?

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Newt Gingrich said Saturday night that he’s staying in the Republican presidential nominating contest.

In a news conference in Las Vegas as results of the Nevada GOP caucus showed Mitt Romney the projected winner, Gingrich said he was still a candidate and would remain one through to the party’s nominating convention in Florida this summer.

“I am a candidate for president of the United States. I will be a candidate for president of the United States,” Gingrich said. “We will go to Tampa.” 

NBC: Romney the projected winner in Nevada

He accused the Romney campaign of sowing rumors that he would drop out, and accused his rival of being dishonest at the most recent GOP debate.

About reports that one of his chief financial backers, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, had met with Romney, Gingrich said that he understood that Adelson had said previously that he would support Romney if Gingrich dropped out. If the choice was between Obama and Romney, Gingrich said, then Romney was the obvious choice.

He described Romney as a Massachusetts moderate, and cast himself as a conservative, and said the differences between the two will become “wider and wider and clearer and clearer” over the next few weeks.

The former House speaker is struggling to forge a comeback after big back-to-back losses to Romney in Nevada and Florida’s primary four days earlier.

Gingrich waged a limited campaign in Nevada, with just a handful of events and no TV ads.

He needs to forge a breakthrough as the race turns to a string of states friendly to Romney, including Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday and Michigan, where Romney grew up, on Feb. 28.

The Gingrich strategy hinges on Super Tuesday on March 6, when the campaign will sweep South again through states that look good for him. Gingrich — who is own chief strategist — and aides have been hunkered down mapping out strategy. Ohio will figure prominently in the mix. He’ll head to the Super Tuesday state on Tuesday, bypassing other states that have contests sooner.

This article includes reporting by NBC News’ Alex Moe, msnbc.com staff and The Associated Press.

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(CNN) — Fidel Castro has released a previously unannounced two-volume memoir of his life, Cuban state-run media reported Saturday.

In a six-hour presentation Friday, the leader of the Cuban Revolution and former president was jovial as he spoke about the 1,000-page work, the Granma newspaper reported.

Castro, 85, spoke together with a panel of cultural and literary officials at the unveiling of the books.

“They are going to talk to you about two books that you had no idea about,” Castro said, according to Granma.

The two volumes, titled “Fidel Castro Ruz: Guerrilla of Time,” is based on conversations with the writer and journalist Katiuska Blanco.

The books cover his life from infancy to December 1958, on the eve of victory of the Cuban Revolution.

In photos published online, Castro is seen at the unveiling, wearing a dark blue workout suit over a checkered button-down shirt.

A Cuban writer, Graziella Pogolotti, said she encouraged Castro to continue writing, despite the challenges of recalling the past, Granma reported.

“I have to take advantage now, because memories fade,” Castro was quoted as saying.”I am willing to do everything possible to share everything I remember well.”

Castro handed the presidency to his brother Raul in 2008.

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As mom Demi Moore seeks treatment, daughter Tallulah celebrated her 18th birthday with a bash on Friday.

The party took place at dad Bruce Willis’s Beverly Hills mansion, and it started in the late afternoon. Tallulah wore a tiara and appeared to be in good spirits.

Joining her: her sister Rumer and Bruce’s pregnant wife, Emma, who was spotted hugging the birthday girl several times.

Moore, meanwhile, has not been spotted since news of her health crisis broke. A source close to the actress says only a “very close” group of friends knows where she is. Says an insider: “Demi is such a private person and where she is now is being kept top secret.”

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Suzanne Somers is known for her dynamite figure. So when breast cancer surgery left her feeling less-than-herself, Somers turned to an experimental procedure to help restore her breasts.

In contrast to Chrissy Snow, the bombshell-next door she played on Three’s Company, Somers strives to keep up with the latest medical technology.

“I am so ensconced in what’s cutting edge,” she tells PEOPLE. “I get my thrill out of passing on information to women so they can have a better quality of life.”

Somers, a stage 1 breast cancer survivor, underwent a procedure that used her own stem cells.

The actress and best-selling author learned about the procedure three years ago when she found Dr. Kotaro Yoshimura, a Japanese surgeon who developed stem-cell breast reconstruction in 2004.

“I invited him over to Los Angeles to see if we could work together,” she says. “He examined me. I kept saying, ‘Bet you’ve never seen these big American whoppers before.’ “

Somers says the breasts that helped make her famous had deteriorated after doctors found a malignant tumor in her right breast 12 years ago and she had a lumpectomy and radiation treatments.

“I thought they’d take a quarter’s worth,” she says. “But the whole bottom half of my breast was gone.”

Six weeks of radiation “left what breast I had flatter and flatter. I had a Double D on one side and on the other side I could hardly fill a B.”

Ultimately, Somers opted to have the surgery in the U.S. instead of traveling overseas.

“I decided I’d really like it to be an American achievement by an American doctor so that American women can have access,” she says.

Last August, she helped launch a clinical trial, which has been approved by an independent medical board, and was the first patient to participate.

So far, 10 more patients have been accepted to the trial, which is taking place at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. (For more information, go to Hollywoodpresbyterian.com.)

Plastic surgeon Dr. Joel Aronowitz removed fat from Somers’s stomach via liposuction. He then harvested stem cells from half of the fat and combined them with the remaining amount of fat.

The mixture was injected back into Somers’s right breast until it filled a C cup. Somers then had her left breast reduced from a DD to match.

The 2½-hour process costs between $14,500 and $19,500 and insurance chips in if the surgery is a reconstruction.

“This whole thing is a win-win,” says Somers. “You lose fat and get a new breast.”

For those battling breast cancer, the procedure could be a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. “A woman can go through the devastating experience and come out whole and looking better,” says Somers.

That’s certainly how the actress feels. “It’s tempting to go without a bra now,” she says playfully, “but I won’t – for my grandchildren.”

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Editor’s note: Roland S. Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of “The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House.” He is a commentator for the TV One cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, “Washington Watch with Roland Martin.”

(CNN) — In the 1,257 GOP debates we have had to sit through, poverty and the poor have rarely come up, so it was no surprise that Mitt Romney would be dismissive of them in an interview this week with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.

If Romney and his fellow Republican candidates haven’t bothered to shed much attention on those issues (the same goes for the debate moderators), why should we think the richest guy in the field would really give a flip about them?

“I’m not concerned about the very poor,” Romney said. “There’s a safety net there, and if it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the heart of America, the 90%, 95% of Americans right now who are struggling.”

In his comment, he appeared to be clueless. Oh, sure, he said he wasn’t worried about the rich as well, but clearly he has made no attempt to advance a plan that speaks to the poor in the country.

When given a chance by O’Brien to clarify the comment, he just doubled down. And later on his campaign plane, he screwed it up again.

“Wealthy people are doing fine,” Romney said. “But my focus in the campaign is on middle-income people. Of course I’m concerned about all Americans — poor, wealthy, middle class — but the focus of my effort will be on middle-income families, who I think have been most hurt by the Obama economy.”

Seriously, do the guy’s dollar signs prevent his brain from understanding the real plight of the poor in this country? So, he’s “concerned” about all Americans, including the poor, “but the focus” of his effort will be on the middle class. Why can’t the focus be on those not rich?

The fundamental problem with these candidates is that the poor in America are often ignored. Last year, I was highly critical of President Barack Obama for not even saying the word in his State of the Union speech.

All these candidates, including President Obama, love to go to manufacturing facilities, hold chats in the living rooms of suburban homeowners and target their messages to the vaunted middle class.

But when was the last time we saw a president or presidential candidate go into rural America and speak to the poorest of the poor? How often have we seen them visit a public housing complex or another venue where a true light can be shone on those most affected?

When Bobby Kennedy decided to run for president in 1968, he got out of his rich Hyannis Port environment and went on a listening and seeing tour of the most depressed areas in America. For the first time, Kennedy got a sight of America he had never envisioned.

President Obama knows what that looks like. As a community organizer, he had to go into those places and work with others to improve their plight. Does the GPS in Mitt Romney’s car even know where those areas are?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15.3% of Americans live in poverty with a salary of a little bit more than $22,000 for a family of four. Trust me, those families pulling in $30,000 wouldn’t think for a second they were part of the nation’s middle class.

If Romney truly wants to be president, he sure as heck should not be dismissive of the nation’s poor. In fact, he should be willing to listen to them, understand how hard many of them work and determine what policies he can advance that will help them graduate from poverty to the next level. Mitt, and all the candidates, should make discussions with the poor part of their agenda.

Candidates must stop appealing to the nation’s middle class just to grab votes. Yeah, that’s exactly what it is: a pandering exercise. We can’t treat the poor as if they are invisible and not worth our time and attention.

Unfortunately, poor people don’t have lobbyists and a lot of people really don’t want to hear their stories. But they are our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces. Are we that cold and callous to treat them with such disregard?

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin.

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