Complete Biography Glenn Robinson

                                                            

                                                        Glenn Robinson III

Introduction

Glen Alan Robinson III born on January 8, 1994, is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He was an All-State high school basketball player for Lake Central High School in St. John, Indiana and had also played college basketball 2 years for Michigan Wolverines. He was declared for the NBA draft for the 2013-14 season after his sophomore season at Michigan. The Minnesota Timberwolves drafted Robinson in the 40^th overall draft in the NBA 2014 draft. His father, Glen Robinson, was also a 1994 first overall draft for NBA. He was born three months premature and weighs about 3 pounds 4 ounces (1.5kg) at Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. He spends 2 months in an incubator until he was about 6 pounds. He was a participated in the Hammond, Indiana YMCA basketball children’s basketball league. Before attending Lake Central High School in St. John Indiana, he had attended Grimmer Middle School in Schererville, Indiana. His height in his seventh grade in school was 5 feet, 6 inches (1.68m) and after two years it was 6 feet, 1 inch as a freshman. Robinson height gradually increases as he stood 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93m) in his sophomore season and stood at over 6 feet, 5.5 inches (1.97m) as a junior.

High School Career

Robinson played junior varsity for Lake Central and once had made game-winning half-court shot as a freshman. After that success in that year, he became obsessed with his dream of dunking and even bought special shoes and wore ankle weights to help his dream come true.  At this time, he was living with his mother Shantelle Clay-Irving and his younger brother Gelen, whereas his father was living in Atlanta. At some time, he came under the wing of two substitute father figures and they were Dave Milausnic (Lake Central Varsity basketball head coach) and Wayne Brumm (AAU SYF Players under 17 coach) Robinson played junior varsity for Lake Central and once had made game-winning half-court shot as a freshman. After the success that year, he became so obsessed with his dream of dunking that he even bought special shoes and wore ankle weights to help his dream come true.  At this time, he was living with his mother Shantelle Clay-Irving and his younger brother Gelen, whereas his father was living in Atlanta. At some time, he came under the wing of two substitute father figures and they were Dave Milausnic (Lake Central Varsity basketball head coach) and Wayne Brumm (AAU SYF Players under 17 coach), between his freshman and sophomore season. Milausnic helped and convinced Robinson for early morning workouts in the gym. Brumm ho was mentoring Robinson as a collegian, advised him to hire a personal trainer named Andrew Wallen to augment his vertical heap. He also helped Robinson to bulk up his weight prior to his sophomore season to 210 pounds (95.25kg) from 167 pounds (75.75kg) in 2 years. Milausnic helped and convinced Robinson for early morning workouts in the gym. Brumm ho was mentoring Robinson as a collegian, advised him to hire a personal trainer named Andrew Wallen to augment his vertical heap. He also helped Robinson to bulk up his weight prior to his sophomore season to 210 pounds (95.25kg) from 167 pounds (75.75kg) in 2 years.

He was the first team all-area selection after leading Lake Centrals is scoring as a sophomore. He became the first verbal commitment to the Michigan Wolverine men’s basketball class of 2012 on September 14, 2014. At that time the Rivals.com rated him as the 118^th best player in the world and he got scholarship offers from different basketball organizations like Colorado, Valparaiso, Missouri State, IUPUI and Indiana State. On February 5, 2011, while playing against East Chicago High School, Robinson scored one of his best performance of his career as he goes 14-for-19 shooting which is his career high 39 points. This was his first high school which his father had attended. On 2011 while playing against Munster High School, he scored 31 points in an overtime 54-53  but missed a few throw in the final seconds and eventually his team lost the game. Prior to his Michigan affiliation, he had already become  friend with his Michigan teammate, Mitch McGary. Robinson had moved up to national number 34 player ranking of Rivals.com as of November 2011. And as of 2012, the pair along with Nik Stauskas had given Michigan a consensus top 10 entering top 10 entering class. Robinson had also quite a successful career as a senior. He led Lake Centrals to a 71-47 win over North Carolina-bound J.P Tokoto’s Menomonee Falls High School in January 2012 at the Brandon Jennings invitational in Milwaukee. For this Robinson was awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP) with 33 points while Tokoto posted 28. Robinson again led the Lake Central to its first sectional championship since 1997 and eventually won the game against Highland High School scoring 24 points for the team’s 63-67 and eventually won the sectional title with 65-56 in a rematch against Munster.

Robinson along with his future teammate McGary was invited to participate in the four-team All-American Championship following that season on April 1, 2012. He posted 16 points and 4 rebounds to earn the ESPNHS All-American Championship game MVP and was named 2012 Post_Tribune Boys basketball player of the year. His success continuous from the beginning to the end of his senior season as he was considered a five-star player by Rivals.com and therefore was an honor roll for Lake Central. In Indiana Mr. Basketball he was voted just behind Gary Harris, Yogi Ferrell and Kellen Dunham at the fourth position and was a second team Associated press All-State selection. Robinson and his teammate NcGary had helped Michigan to remain in the top 10 position.

College Career

Robinso began his Michigan career first as a freshman  in the starting lineup on November 9, 2012. He nearly a double-double with 10 points and 8 rebounds in a 100-62 victory against Slippery Rock in his first ever career game as a freshman. This performance continuous as he scored 21 points while making his first 8 goals in a 95-54 victory against the IUPUI Jaguars on November 12, in his 2^nd game as a freshman. His team had the championship game victory against Kansas State in the NIT Season Tip-Off tournament on November 20, and his personal contribution to the match was him scoring 12 rebounds. Robinson became the first Michigan freshman to post at least 20 points and 10 rebounds in a game since LaVell Blanchard did so three times for the Michigan Wolverine’s men’s basketball team in 1990-2000 as he scored 20 points and 10 rebounds against Lowa on January 6, to earn his career-first double-double. He earned the recognition as Big Ten Conference Freshman of the week as of January 7, 2013. On January 28, due to his and his teammate McGary pair of 12 point performance on 71.4% shooting which averaged 8 rebounds, he got the recognition as Big Ten Conference Freshman of the week for the second time in his career. Robison along with his teammate Satuskas was able to be in the top 12 midseason list of Wayman Tisdale Award (USBWA National Freshman of the Year) on January 31. Robinso tied his career high point of 21 and posted his second double-double by adding 10 rebounds in their game against Penn State on February 17. He got the honorable mention all-conference selection by the coaches and was a 2012-13 Big Ten Conference all-freshman.

In the NCAA tournament, Michigan defeated its first opponent South Dakota State scoring 71-56. In this game, Robinson again tied his career high points with 21 points. This victory was the 27^th victory of the season for the team and gave the team its most wins in the 20 years and match head coach John Beilein’s career high. For their second game against Kansas, Robinson contributed 13 points and 8 rebounds on March 29. He became on of the two Big Ten Players named to the 21 men 2013 Macy Freshman All-America team on April 1. On April 8, for the National Championship game Michigan lost to Louisville by an 82-76 margin despite him scoring 12 points in the game. He was expected to enter the NBA draft for 2013 but he and his friend McGary held the press conference to announce that they are not entering the NBA draft.

After his freshman career, Robinson attended the Nike Skills Academy as a sophomore, rejecting the invitation to try out for the USA Basketball Team which was competing 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship . he became the first player in the history of the Michigan basketball to max out the 12-foot-3-inch vertex apparatus while training with Nike Skills. Robinson tied career highs with 4 assists and 3 steals and also scored 15 points and 7 rebounds in a game against UMass Lowell on November 8, 2013. On November 13, he was featured in Sports Illustrated Magazine Cover. On December 14, despite the loss with Arizona 72-70, Robinson nailed 20 points on 8-9 field goal shooting and 4 rebounds. His career high of 23 points came in a game against Holy Cross on December 28.

In the January 2 Big Ten Conference opener, Robinson scored career-high 3 block despite he misses majority part of the game due to his ankle injury. In the game against Nebraska, he again tied his career high performance of 23 points on February 22, 1998. In the two games held at the Bradley Center against Wofford and Texas, he scored 14 points in each game and averaged 6 rebounds but his team gets eliminated in the elite eight round of the NCAA Tournament by Kentucky. During his days with Michigan, Michigan enjoyed its winningest two-year stretch in school history marked by a total of 59 wins.

Professional Career

Robinson was drafted as a 40^th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of 2014 NBA draft. His former teammate McGary and Stauskas are also being drafted. On September 14, 2014,  he signed with Timberwolves and committed to representing them in the NBA Summer League. His professional debut with Timberwolves was set against New Orlean Pelicans where he scored 1 points in 8 minutes of the play. He posted his first field goals 2-for-2 shooting performance against defending champion San Antonio Spurs on November 21. He trailed 7 points against Spurs and 4 rebounds against Golden State Warriors. He was waved by Timberwolves on March 5, 2015.

Eventually, he was signed by Philadelphia 76ers on March 7, 2015, and made his debut on March 14 against Brooklyn Nets. He scored 10 points against Chicago Bulls. He started his one and only season finale with Miami Heat and posted season-high 8 rebounds. He became the free agent after the 76ers opted not to make a qualifying offer to him before July 1, 2015, signing period. On July 9, he joined Atlanta Hawks for the 2015 NBA Summer league.

On July 13, 2015, he signed a 3 year deal with the Indiana Pacers where he is currently playing until now. General Manager of Pacer Lary Bird saw the potential in Robinson and he attempted to acquire him. So, Lary hooked Robinson with shooting guru Hal Wissel for extra attention. Robinson debut with the Pacers in their 5^th game of the season against Boston Celtics on November 4 and posted 10 points and 2 rebounds in his first game with Pacers. On November 13, while playing against his former team Minnesota Timberwolves, he posted 11 points. Robinson scored his career high 17 points off the bench and 4-for-4 from three point range in a game against Milwaukee Bucks on November 21. He was signed to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA development league on December 27 and was recalled the next day by Pacers. Robinson started the first season of the year 2016 on January 17 against the Denver Nuggets. On January 26, Robinson was replaced by George Hill in the starting lineup against the Los Angeles Clippers.

David Muir

1.     Introduction

David Muir was born on 8^th of November 1973 in Syracuse, New York. David Muir is a very popular American journalist who works for ABC world News as an anchor of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir program. Before working as an anchor in ABC World News he had served as the weekend anchor for flagship ABC News where he broadcast the ABC World News Tonight and also worked as the co-anchor of the ABC news-magazine.  By Tyndall Report, Muir's reporting has received the most airtime in 2012 and 2013. He was also called as one of the “12 to watch in TV News” by TV Week and a celebrity news website “TMZ” has called him “The Brat Pitt of News Anchor”. He was also listed as one of Sexiest man of “Peoples Magazine” alieved in 2014. By birth he is an American so his nationality also becomes American.

2.     Education and Early life

 He has spent his childhood in a place named Onondaga Hill. Onondaga hill is a name of a village located in the southwest of Syracuse. David Muir was born to Ronald Muir and Pat Mills. From his family he has got an older brother, three nieces and one nephew. He had spent his vacation working at WTVH-TV, the local CBS affiliate in Syracuse during his teenage. Including his mother tongue, Muir is very good in Arabic and Spanish.  The news anchor Muir got his graduation from Onondaga Junior-High School in May 1991. After graduation from the School he joined the college at the Park School of Communication in Ithaca College at Ithaca, New York and completed Bachelor of Arts Degree in journalism in May 1995. Also he had attended Political journalism to raise fund for American Studies at Georgetown University. Also he had worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVH television from 1995 to 2000 in Syracuse, New York. There he reports from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Gaza Strip followed by the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that earned him top honours from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. After then Muir was honoured with “Best Enterprise Reporting” and “Best Television Interviewer”. Besides these Muir was also recognized as an anchor of the “Best Local Newscast” which also voted him for one of the “Best Local News Anchor’s” in Syracuse. Muir joined ABC News in august 2003 as a anchor of the overnight news program World News Now. Occasionally in 2006 he co-anchored the news magazine “Primetime” and in 2007 Muir was the anchor of World News Saturday. There his anchoring carrier just goes on and on and in February 2012, Muir became anchor for the weekend newscasts, and the broadcast was named as World news with David Muir. From this Muir has silently credited with arise in the rating of the weekend evening broadcasts. Building his carrier Muir starting hard working in anchoring and in 2013 he was promoted as co-anchor in ABC’s 20/20 with Elizabeth Vargas. It’s September 2005, a hurricane katrina hit inside the new Orleans superdome at the same moment Muir was also there reporting on the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Muir report revealed and highlighted the deteriorating condition inside the convention centre and charity hospital. Also at that very moment Muir and his photographer waded through chest-deep waters for blocks to find patient trapped into that hospital. In October 2006 he reported from the Israeli-Lebanon border about Israeli war with Hezbollah. Also in 2007 he had reported from Gaza covering humas coup. When Earthquake was hitted Peru for more than two decades Muir was dispatched there. During his reporting he has also investigated the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s like Muir has done lots of reporting and investigation which help him building his carrier from reporter to a celebrity. Without caring about any danger he has reported from Haiti after the huge hurricane and again returned back to the reporting he is working on against the women attack. During the political revolution in Egypt and Muir had reported from Tahir square. When japan was followed by a deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident in June 2011, Muir was reporting from Fukushima. Taking about his career he had a keen interest in anchoring since from his childhood. It might be the reason that he was awarded by Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. After then with he was awarded with many award because of this wonderful anchoring and reporting and one of the biggest award he was awarded with “National Headliner Award”. Also by tracing hijackers for the incident of September 11, 2001 he had earned a press honors award.

3.      Achievement and Awards

 Muir has a very good looking and handsome face. This is why he is very popular among female audience. In journalism field he had admired many of his colleagues and young journalists. Muir linked in any relationship with anyone has not been officially proved. Though he was even assumed to be a gay as there was not any traces or rumors of his affairs. Even though he was also found as single which directly indicate that he is unmarried. From the above line it is clear that he is not a gay and has not been in relationship yet, he must be straight and searching his love of life to be in deep relation so that he can enjoyed the rest of his happily with his love of life. Being a big star it won’t be so easy and with his title of TV star comes there might be many rumors about surgery and about his relationship status. There has been a rumor that he have had a plastic surgery of his nose to reshape it. A charming and brilliant 42 years old television presenter and journalist, David Muir has garned the attention of all people by presenting his various skill in anchoring and television presenting skill. With his charismatic and attractive personality he has gathered a large number of lady fan following. He has got a perfect body shape with a height of 6 feet. Millions of peoples loves the way the anchored in the television and what he has reported. A wide variety of shirtless picture emphasize his youth in comparison to his age. If any fan wants to know something about David Muir then his complete biography is in the TV guide’s website. Also they can refer to Wikipedia for his complete wiki. Through YouTube any can watch his news coverage and reporting. He uses Facebook and twitter from where any fans can be up to date about his recent news and program.

4.     Personal life

On 8^th November 2013 he had celebrated his 40^th birthday. By birth he is an American citizen with English Ethnicity. During his childhood he play various games and watched TV program with his parents. Since his childhood he aimed to become a famous TV actor. Taking about his religion he is a roman catholic, Jewish. He went to church with his parents for praying. By birth he has a black eye with grey black hair colour. His body weight is normal as according to his height which gave him a perfect body shape and marked him as a good looking guy. Although there is no official release about his salary but the net worth of David Muir is $3.2 million. Recently by replacing Diane Sawyner, the anchor of ABC world news David Muir was appointed as an anchor of ABC world news. It’s because of his hard work he is always well known for his profession. This indicates that he definitely has a great future ahead. David Muir dedication in his work and his craze among the public directs him as a successful person and will achieve more in future. After graduation in bachelor he had struggled for five years as an anchor and reporter in WTVH television. Even though he had reported as a correspondent from various corners in critical issues his interview with Mitt Romney generated a Nation headlines. As well as in ABC he was brought in series to other television program. Personally his style is classic but understated. In most case he uses Zegna suits, his jeans are A.P.C, and his signature sunglasses are Randolph gold-framed aviators. He has not any specific hobby in playing games but sometime he plays tennis. He loves reading books and last time he read the Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and the Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri book. He wants travel in a long flights which makes him feel that no one can reach him. He had watched the Notebook for the first time in his recent flight which also reduced him to tears in front of the Stewardness. He always blisses out whenever he is on his way back to Syracuse.

5.     Daily Activities, Net worth and Relationship Nature

He always had his daily news in print, from The New York times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street journal and others. Muir had received an honorary Doctor of letters degree and the Jessica Savitch Award of Distinction for Excellence in journalism from Ithaca College on March 13, 2015. He also had delivered the commencement address at north eastern University in Massachusetts on May 8, 2015. On this ceremony, honorary Doctor of media degree was given to him. Muir would succeed Diane Sawyer as the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News and this is announced on June 27, 2014 by ABC News. David become more famous in April 2015 when his program “World news tonight with David Muir” has become the country’s most watched evening newscast. Muir had served as one of ABC’s lead correspondents for the 20112 U.S. Presidential election. He interviews with Republican candidate Mitt Romney on the issue of economics and immigration policy in the United States of America. Muir also had served as a guest co-host. While reporting from Mogadishu Muir and his team came under fire. The most popular television presenter of ABC news, David Muir star sign is Scorpio. Researching on to his personal life, Muir has not provided any brief detail about his personal life. Also where some reports claims that he has got married to his long-time boyfriend called Sean. It was also believed that he was dating his boyfriend Sean from a long time. Till now he hasn’t been engaged with anyone and also Muir has openly accepted that he is a gay and is more interested in boy rather than in girls. Muir had kept all his personal life information Secret from media. After all this rumor, Muir is living and enjoying his personal life very happily. He used to upload photos in Facebook. Besides this he had twitted lots of informational lines about political and life based inspirational quote in the twitter. He used to live his life so perfectly and secretly so that no one can make any disturbance in his own personal life. More over talking about his childhood he was very gentle boy and his father used to take him to the park in morning and evening where they both used to play games. During his reporting period, Muir had reported from across the globe, including Egypt, China, the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe, South Africa and all across the United States. Muir had Travelled China in November 2010 to report on the second –largest economy in the world anchoring from Shanghai and Beijing. In 2010 winter games in Vancouver and in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Muir had anchored and reported. It was reported in 2016 that the net worth of Muir is $7million. He believe in hard working and also he believe that with hardworking only anyone succeed their goals. This is the important reason that he became a famous TV celebrity today. Also he had said that he will be nothing without his parents support and love. Muir reporting and anchoring profession help him to know various language which awarded him with various award and names. He had uploaded too many photos in Facebook and twitter which signs that he is an active user of Facebook and Twitter.

Sam Hunt

                   

Introduction

Sam Lowry Hunt born on 8^th December 1984 in Cedartown, Georgia is an American country music singer, songwriter and a former college football player, played football in his school and college years and also attempted to pursue his career in the sport but eventually end up signing with MCA Nashville for his music career. His biography is featured in Wikipedia and latest information about him can be grabbed from his own personal website . The reason behind the Sam Hunt pursuing his career in music even though he spent his school days concentrating on sports is because of his attachment and passion towards music grows deeper and deeper. Before his successful solo career, Hunt is credited with writing songs for some of the music legends like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Billy Currington and Reba McEntire. On a short period of time hunt has become one of America’s most anticipated artist and his debut album entitled “Montevallo” is proof of it which create quite a buzz and promise. His all songs and music videos are available on iTunes.

Early Life and Football Carrier

Hunt was born eldest to the three children from Allen and Joan Hunt. He studied at Cedartown High School nearby his home and his prime focus in his school was in sports especially in football. His accomplishment as a football player in school was named 2002 co-offensive player of the year, selection for the Georgia Sportswriter association All-State class AAA first-term as an all-purpose player and a nomination for Wendy’s High School Heisman. He ends up playing football as starting quarterback at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

He studied 2 years at Middle Tennessee State University and two years at UAB where his major subject was philosophy and he eventually graduated with a business degree in economics. After graduating from college his talent was noticed by NFL and given him the lifetime opportunity to train with the Kansas City Chiefs. But after two months a failed attempt to impress the official of NFL hunt decided to move to Nashville to everyone surprise to pursue a career in music.

Music Carrier

The building for the passion of music started during his UAB days. Due to the multiple injuries he suffered while playing football for UAB in early 2006, he just plays 7 games. To avoid the leisure time which according to Hunt is killing him, he started to teach himself to play an acoustic guitar. While learning the songs of great singers and songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and John Prime, he began putting rudimentary chords together and composing his own songs. The real starting off his illustrious music career started when his college friends heard his songs written by him and encouraged and help him to book the shows in bars. After arriving in music city, the USA without a real understanding of different paths a musician can pursue, he was lucky enough to sign a publishing deal and write songs for full time. He then decided to go in the path of songwriting and conventional method of collaborating and he soon realizes that he was developing the music that was slightly out of sync with the standard Nashville formula.

Before his successful singer career, he also co-wrote 2012 hit “Come Over” song for legendary singer Kenny Chesney. In 2013, he met producer Zach Crowell with whom he released a free mixtape of acoustic songs called “Between the Pines”. The acoustics version of his own previous songs and the ones he wrote for other artists are the songs on this album. His other successful work was writing the songs titled as “Cop Car” and “We are tonight” for the singers Keith Urban and Billy Currington respectively in the year of 2014 which went on to become the smashing hit. Along the way, he learned many rules and structure to make a great song while collaborating with songwriters. But he also realizes that there was a way to go beyond these rules to and make something that would really be unique and that is something he would be remembered for. After all the songs written by him went on to become the huge hit, Hunt found an exciting new direction as a solo artist and began to shift his direction from being a songwriter to a solo singer. Soon, Hunt as a singer won the latest cycle of Spotify’s Emerge where his songs were averaging 300,000 streams per day. This led to Universal/MCA took an interest in him.

The true milestone in his music career came in January of 2014 when he signed a contract with MCA Nashville. In his initial days in MCA, he finished polishing some mixtape songs and preparing for his debut album “Montevallo”. His first four songs EP as a solo singer was released on 12^th of august, 2014 as a preview to his first album “Montevallo” which is entitled as X2C. The EP went on to be the huge hit landing number 36 on the “Billboard 200” and in the “Billboard Top Country Album Charts,” it was on number 5 responsible for selling over 8,000 copies only in its first week. And in October of 2014, Hunt first solo song “Leave the Night On” came and as expected it became a smashing hit. It cemented the legacy of Sam Hunt as a rising star in the country music giving him the recognition he deserves. This song went on to be the number one on “Country Airplay” and thus received a deserving platinum certification from “Recording Studio Association of America (RIAA)”. The songs, as well as a music video, was also a big hit and it gave Hunt two nomination for CMT music awards winning him the Breakthrough Video of the Year and also nomination in Billboard Music Awards.

His first album “Montevallo” was released on October 27, 2014. November 5 2014, marks the important day for Hunt as his debut album lands at number 1 on Top Country Albums and number 3 on Billboard 200. All the songs in the album are smashing hits. The song with aggressive dance beats “Take your Time” lands at number 20 in Billboard hot 100 others are “Break Up in a Small Town”, “Raised on It” and “Make You Miss Me”. As his four songs landed in a list of Billboard hot 100, Hunt became the first country artist, whose all solo songs for his debut album listed in such a respectable chart. His first album is named “Montevallo” due to his emotional feeling for this name. Actually, “Montevallo” is a name of a small Alabama Town and Hunt choose this name because he used to visit this place to meet his friends and to reduce the pressure of starting a new career in Nashville. In the process, that place is emotionally attached to him. “Montevallo” in Spanish means “Mountain and Valley”.

Awards, Nomination and Music Tour

Despite the fact that Mark Hunt is a relatively new name in the field of country music but due to his unique and smashing hit songs, he had achieved many nominations and awards both for songwriter and as a solo artist. He had nominated in the Academy of Country Music Awards as a New Artist of the Year in the year of 2015 and his Album “Montevallo” and the song “Take Your Time” was nominated for “Album of the Year” and “Single Record of the Year” respectively in the year 2016.

He won the 2016 version of “Breakthrough Male of the Year” at the American Country Countdown Awards. His debut album “Montevallo” also won the “Digital Album of the Year” at the same event and on the same night. This marks him the two wins in his five nominations at the American Country Countdown Awards 2016. Others fields of his nominations are “Artist of the Year”, “Male Vocalist of the Year” and “Album of the Year”. He won one award “New Artist of the Year” out of his three nominations in American Music Award 2015. Other nominations for him includes “Favorite Male Artist – Country” and for his album “Favorite Album – Country”. 

He was nominated and won the ASCAP Country Music Award for the “Songwriter artist of the Year” in the year 2015. He got CMT Music award 2015 for the song “Leave the Night On” as a “Breakthrough Video of the Year” and nomination for “Video of the Year” for the same song. He got two nominations in the respected Grammy Awards version of 2015. The nominations fields were “Best New Artist” and “Best Country Album” for his debut album “Montevallo”. He won the 2016 version of Music Biz Award for “Breakthrough Artist” and Taste of the Country Music Award 2015 for “New Artist of the Year”.

5 days after the release and success of his debut album “Montevallo”, which was sold 70,000 unit approx. till then, Hunt announced his first music tour Lipstick Graffiti with Michael Ray. Due to his huge popularity, the show sold at 15 venues despite the time being between the show and ticket sale. Other memorable tours include Wheels Up Tour with Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, and Kelsea Bellerini, Farm Tour in 2015 with Luke Bryan, C2C: Country to Country tour with Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town and Maddie & Tae and Spread the Love tour in 2016 with Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, and Old Dominion.

Influence and musical style

Hunt writes and sings the songs of country music, R&B, and pop. Hunt music was taken as a reinterpretation of early 60’s music, that not only intrigued the country audience at the time but it brought a brand new audience to the country music genre. Hunt music was heavily inspired by Brad Paisley, his early hit “He Didn’t Have to be” had a big impact on him as a kid growing up in Georgia. Hunt remembers getting the car keys from his mom before the supper was over to get in the car to listen to that song. He also said that he is very inspired by Billy Currington, Usher, K-Ci & JoJo, R. Kelly and Alice Cooper.

Hunt always tries to add some uniqueness to his songs rather than the traditional Nashville formula. He had told often that he does not write songs with a specific genre in mind, but rather follow his instinct. His passion was towards the country music and he once told the Rolling Stone Country “I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people, but the beats and sounds continue to evolve.”  Billy Dukes of Taste of Country, after observing the “Break Up in a Small Town” praises the song as “likely the wordiest song of 2015”  and Hunt’s “most genre-bending release to country music” adding “Any talk of which genre Hunt belongs in misses the point. His story hits hard. It’s deep and emotional and sincere and all the things we expect from a great country song.” In an interview with Billboard, Hunt remarked the position of women in the music, “Respect for the women was a very important part of my upbringing”, and added, “The women in my life demanded that for me”.

Net Worth, Fan Following

As of 2016, Hunt net worth is estimated to be 5 million dollars. There is no doubt for this huge net worth for Hunt as he is a widely popular singer. His per year salary is estimated to be $606,000. Along from songs he also earns money by sponsorship and featuring in programs. Hunt is very active on social media. He likes to post all the photos and videos from his tour and other activities on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and others media. He had also huge fan following. Because of his innocent looks, charismatic voice and muscular body he has as many fans following of female fans as that of the male. He had about 1,000,000 followers on Facebook, 433,000 followers on Twitter and a whopping 1.3 million followers on Instagram. He had over 1 hundred thousand subscribers in his YouTube Channel. This statistics shows how popular Sam Hunt is in social media. During his struggle days as a musician, he arrived at Nashville with a big dream and now he is living his dreams.

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DANNY FERRY

Introduction

Daniel John Willard “Danny” Ferry, an American retired basketball player and former general manager of the Atlanta Hawks were born on October 17, 1966, at Hyattsville, Maryland. He also served in the Basketball Operations for the San Antonio Spurs of the (NBA) National Basketball Association as a Vice President. He began playing basketball in his early days at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland and excelled in high school level with Morgan Wooten as his coach. Before his committing to Duke University, Ferry was one of the most highly recruited high school seniors in the entire nation and also had earned the Prep’s Magazine prep Player of the year in 1985. Due to his extraordinary talents on a basketball court such as superb outside shooting, strong rebounding abilities, full court vision (few among several others), Ferry was considered as one of the most celebrated basketball athletes around the entire world. His best work was seen during his high school days in 1985 and his days Duke University in 1988-89. The All-American had led the Duke Blue Devils to the three Final Four appearances and also set many records for the team earning him also numerous national player of the year awards. After drafting into the NBA in 1989 as the second overall draft, Ferry went on to spend the majority of his sports career with the Cleveland cavaliers, where went on to become the team’s all-time leaders in the game as he led 723 games only to be surpassed by Zydrunas IIgauskas on December 2, 2009. Ferry remains one of the top basketball players in the history of Duke University and is ranked among top 50 of Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) men’s basketball player of all time.

Appearance and Personal Life

Danny is currently 49 years old and stands 6 feet and 10 inches tall. He got married to Tiffany Ferry at 1955. He has a very happy married life with five children Hannah, Grace, Sophia, Lucy, and Jackson. There have been never any proof or even a rumor about any dispute in his married life. His present net worth is expected to be around 15 million dollars. He has an active presence in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others and has quite a following in it. The ferry is a board member for Playing for Peace, a non-profit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate kids from around the globe.

College Career

Ferry attended the Duke University and during his time at Duke, he played basketball for the university for over four seasons. His best works at his college career were that he helped to lead the Blue Devils to the final four in 1986, 1988 and 1989 which takes him winning the MVP award for the east Regional twice. He also set some records for Duke University. Some of his records include Duke’s all-time single game scoring record (for scoring 58 points against Miami on December 10, 1980), the only player to be in Top 10 of Duke’s prestigious all 3 categories (ranked 6^th in career points, overall 8^th in career rebounds and 7^th in career assists). His other achievement during his college days were he became the first player to Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) history to collect more than 1,000 points (1,000 rebounds and 500 in his collegiate career) and won several national Player of the Year awards. Some of these awards were Naismith College Player of the Year, College Player of the Year for USBWA (Oscar Robertson Trophy) and UPI player of the Year. His greatest honor was yet to come, as in 2002 Ferry was named to the ACC 50^th Anniversary men’s basketball teams honoring 50 greatest player in ACC history. Due to his success and achievement at Duke University, Ferry is considered as one of the greatest player of all time in the history of Duke University.

Professional Career

After leaving college, Los Angeles Clippers drafted Ferry in the 1^st round as their second overall draft of the 1989 NBA draft. He soon accepted the offer made by Italian league’s II Mesaggero (now Virtus Roma) because he didn’t want to play with the Clippers. Playing for the Italian club in 1989-90 season Ferry made the name for himself as he averaged 23 points and six rebounds per game leading the Italian club to the playoffs. The Clippers traded Ferry’s right to the Cleveland Cavaliers along with his colleague Reggie Williams in exchange for high-scoring guard Ron Harper on November 16, 1989, as Ferry has no intention to play for the Clippers.

On November of 1989, Ferry signed a 10 year guaranteed contract with Cleveland Cavaliers. Unfortunately for Ferry, he doesn’t live up to the hype and had a very decent career in his Cavs days and never became a star Cavs had hoped based on his outstanding performance in his Duke’s days. In 1995-96 season, the best season of Ferry for Cleveland Cavaliers came when he averaged 13.3 ppg. His decent performance continuous in his only left one other season where he averaged double figures. After departing ways with Cleveland Cavaliers, Ferry signed a contract with San Antonio Spurs as a free agent on August 10, 2010, accepting the role as a back off-the-bench shooter with the spurs. Ferry played through the 2003-03 season for the spurs.

Management Career

Ferry had quite a successful management career if the recent controversy about the racist comments didn't surround him. Ferry’s official management career begins on 2003 shortly after retiring from active competition, when he signed to work at the middle management level with the Antonio Spurs. He stays with Spurs for 2 years and eventually signed up with Cleveland Cavaliers to a five-year contract with whopping 10 million dollars for 5 years. Ferry spends 5 years (2005-2010) and 5 season serving Cavaliers at its management level. Ferry began his management tenure with a Cavaliers overseeing a series of less than optimal transactions. He had been credited with bringing the superstar player LeBron James and a smart and creative head coach Mike Brown at the team which in turn helped the team to flourish so much and made a series of serious postseason run in the beginning of 2006. The trio combination of Ferry, Brown and Dan Gilbert (majority owner of Cavaliers) started to add more talents on the roster in an essence to make the roster best in the world. They had been best known for acquiring one-time All-Star guard Mo Williams, former All-Star Shaquille O’Neal at center, starting shooting guard Anthony Parker, Leon Powe, former All-Star Antawn Jamison and re-signing veteran center Zydrunas IIgauskas between the year 2008-2010. The trio’s strategy and their personal shuffling paid off in the year of the 2008-09 season when Cleveland not just won its first Central Division title since 1976 but also for the first time ever they finished with the best record in the Eastern Conference but as well as the league overall. The same success repeats for the 2009-10 season when Cavaliers won the NBA’s best record for the season consecutive season. Also in 2007 Cavaliers advanced to the final of NBA, marking the franchise’s first and only trip to the NBA finals. Ferry’s run as the manager came to an end on June 4, 2010, when it was announced that the Cavaliers and Ferry have decided to part ways. Although Ferry had one month left on his contract, The Cavaliers went 272-138 under Ferry.

In late August, he accepted the offer made by Spurs to return to the company as the vice president of basketball operations. In this position, Ferry oversaw the team’s player personnel, coaching, officiating, on-court policy and procedures, as well as scheduling. The tenure between the Spurs and Ferry ended on 2012 as Ferry decided to reprise the role of General Manager of the team for Atlanta Hawks. Ferry joined the position as the president of basketball operations and general manager of Atlanta Hawks On June 25, 2012. Ferry joined the Atlanta Hawks with 22 years of experience as both a player and front office executive. As a president of the Basketball operation and General Manager, Ferry’s main duties were to maintain basketball operations, including coaching, player personnel, contract negotiations and salary-cap management in. During his 3 years run as a general manager and president of the basketball operation at hawks, the team was riding high with 60 games win and 4 players placed on All-Star in one season. His run with Atlanta Hawks ended due to the controversy of racism as Ferry makes racist comments which are considered as culturally insensitive about the Miami Heat forward Luol Deng. Currently, he has been working for Pelicans as a special advisor role as of June of 2016.

Controversy

During his run with Atlanta Hawks, Ferry was caught in a major controversy regarding the racism June of 2015. The controversy arose with the release of an audio recording of a conference call with ownership in which Ferry was heard repeating culturally insensitive comments when reading a scouting report about Miami Heat forward Luol Deng. He was heard saying (he got some African left in him) about the Luol Deng badly hurting the African-American heritage of the player. Following the incident, Hawk’s co-owner Michael Gearon Jr. had called Ferry to either resign or be dismissed. On September 9, 2015, Hawk’s CEO, Steve Cronin announced that they are not going to dismiss Ferry instead they are preparing to go for disciplinary charges for Ferry. A few days later Ferry thus apologizes to Deng and other players and decided to leave the franchise so he asked for an immediate, indefinite leave of absence from his duties thus officially stepped down as general manager of Hawk and was approved immediately. After the incident, the law firm hired by the Hawk’s team Alston and Bird LLP conducted 19 interviews and reviewed the contents of more than 24,000 emails and found no evidence that Ferry’s comment on Deng was motivated by bias. The law firm concludes that at the conference call, which occurred on June 6 of 2014, Ferry characterized the Deng as a player who (has a little African in him) was not due to the motivated bias but from a scouting report Ferry was reading prepared by the third party. Ferry himself revealed that Deng was willing to talk to him and he shows lots of dignity and forgiveness to him. After his release from Hawk’s Ferry and his team agreed to a buyout contract made by Hawks that will pay Ferry more than the remaining balance on the final three years of the contract.

Awards and Achievements

At the time when Ferry was general manager and an active competitor, he got many awards and achievements. Some of his achievement are summarized below.

·         In 1989, Naismith College Player of the Year

·         In 1989, Player of the Year for USBWA

·         In 1989, College of the Year for UPI

·         In 1988, Consensus First Team All-American

·         In 1988. Consensus Second Team All-American

·         2 times ACC Athlete of the Year for 1988-89

·         Silver medalist in the 1987 Zagreb Summer Universiade Men’s Basketball.

Reception On Basketball Community

Danny Ferry is a very respected name in the basketball history of USA. He is regarded as a great mind off basketball both in the field and at the management levels. (Danny’s experience insight and achievement will be a welcomed and his addition to the Pelicans will be great, as we continue our quest to improve the team). This is the statement from Pelicans about the versatility of Ferry. Also, the other company like Spur, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Atlanta Hawks acknowledge Ferry both as a competitor and manager. They agree that they had  pretty much successful years when Ferry was associated with their organizations. Ferry’s years as an active competitor in the University of Duke were considered as legendary by many as the school assumed him to be the great basketball player in the entire history of School. He had the every right to be called as the great mind in basketball as he showed his awesome creativity and worked very hard to flourish his talent on both as an active competitor on the basketball court  and also at the management level . Ferry is very popular and respected  among the NBA community. Even in his dark days, when he was in controversy and his career was in jeopardy, he was backed by many prominent members of NBA community, including NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. This shows his position among the NBA Community.

Nigel Barker : bio-graphy

                           Nigel Barker

                                                                                                 Introduction

Nigel Barker best known as a fashion photographer was born on 27^th April of 1972 at London, England. He is also an English TV show personality, author, spokesperson, filmmaker and a former model. He was born from a mother of a Sri Lankan ancestry and a father of Irish and Portuguese descent. His mother is a former Miss Sri Lanka so he grew up forming a respect for a modelling profession. He went to the Bryanston School and his major subjects were Physics, Chemistry and Biology during his A Level. He participated in a popular reality show ‘America’s Next Top Model’ as a judge and photographer. He currently hosts the reality show The Face. Recent news about him and his biography can be obtained from his personal website at http://www.nigelbarker.tv. and at facebook Nigel Barker official.

Career

He planned to pursue a career in medicine and decided to continue his career in medicine but her mother wants him to enter the fashion world, so she participated Barker into a televised search on the “The Clothes Show”. Barker ended being a finalist in that show and it was the starting of his modelling career. He modeled around the major fashion cities of the world like Milan, Paris and New York City for around 10 years. After viewing the ups and down of the fashion world and realizing that to survive in the fashion world one should adapt to this changes, Barker transformed himself from a model to a fashion photographer in 1996.

Barker quickly became