BRIT Awards 2014: Winners

BRIT Awards 2014: Winners

 

 

 

International Female Solo Artist
WINNER: Lorde

The BRIT Awards 2014 is now over and his year's crop of big winners have been revealed, with the likes of One Direction, Lorde, Ellie Goulding and Rudimental all picking up awards.

The BRITs took place at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday night (19th February) and also saw the likes of Bruno Mars, Bastille, Arctic Monkeys, Daft Punk and David Bowie walking home with gongs.

Justin Bieber Just Won't Behave: Inside Rolling Stone's New Issue

Justin Bieber Just Won't Behave: Inside Rolling Stone's New Issue

 There's a fine line between having more fun than any teenager alive and completely melting down. Justin Bieber seems determined to find it — and Rolling Stone goes inside the egg-throwing, hard-partying, drag-racing, arrest-resisting, brothel-patronizing, lightning-quick fall of a pop icon in our new issue (on stands Friday). Contributing editor Claire Hoffman gets the dirt on the 19-year-old's most recent troubles, uncovering events that would make the singer's core Beliebers lose their faith. Here are five of the most shocking revelations:

 

One of Justin's wildest nights went down at a Miami strip club called King of Diamonds Gentlemen's Club.

Bieber puffed a G Pen weed vaporizer and blew through the $75,000 in small bills his bodyguards brought for him in the VIP room, accepting lap dance after lap dance. The occasion? The January birthday of Bieber's pal, rapper Lil Scrappy. Two days later, Justin was arrested for drag racing in a rented Lamborghini.

Insiders blame Bieber's dad for encouraging Justin's bad behavior.

Bieber's 38-year-old pop Jeremy split with Justin's mom when he was a toddler, but has reappeared in a big way. "His father's not a great influence," says a source. "They're almost not like father and son — it's more like two best friends." Jeremy was in the strip club with Justin, enjoying the overflow of his son's parade of strippers, and was also present when Bieber was busted for drag racing (he was accused of helping block off traffic).

As early as 2010, Bieber began to show signs of stress.
Justin broke down in tears backstage one day, bemoaning his lack of privacy. "If you want the Michael Jackson career, you have to grasp that you are never going to be normal again," his manager Scooter Braun told him.

Justin Bieber's wild decline: a timeline of the Canadian idol's spiral

Three authority figures confronted Justin after his night in jail – but that didn't slow his wild behavior.
 

After his night in jail, Bieber left Miami for Panama, with his gal pal Chantel Jeffries. Usher, Bieber's mother and Braun flew to Panama to have a serious talk about his the singer's behavior, shipping Jeffries back to Miami. A source close to the Bieber camp said the trip wasn't an intervention, but "a conversation, reminding him of the people who care about him, and to consider things to do about it."

After the non-intervention, Bieber and his dad took off on an even more out-of-control trip.
 

Justin and Jeremy rented a private plane to take them from Toronto to Teterboro Airport outside New York for the Super Bowl. According to a leaked incident report, the pair were so verbally abusive to a flight attendant, she hid in the cockpit with the pilots. The pilots were so overcome by the weed smoke, they had to wear oxygen masks to fly the plane.

Look for the issue on stands and in the iTunes App Store this Friday, February 28th.

Morris Twins Efforts Feel Short As The Rockets Beat The Suns 115-112 by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267)293-9201

Morris Twins Efforts Feel Short As The Rockets Beat The Suns 115-112 by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267)293-9201

The Suns’ Marcus and Markieff Morris keep kicking back the Rockets throughout the 3 quarters of good basketball.  But, the Rockets surprised the crowd by the outcome of the 115-112 win against the Suns. The twins participated in just adding San Antonio to the list of teams they've run off the court recently.  Since January 22nd the Suns have double digit wins against the Indiana Pacers, Golden St. Warriors and San Antonio. Phoenix is 11-4 in its last 15 games.

The Suns are 33-22 after 55 games, their best 55-game start since 2007-08. This loss will not prevent the Suns from making Philly proud – the Suns are getting into the playoffs as long as the Morris twins are healthy.

Yet, the Suns only needed to play better against Dwight Howard and the Rockets. The Houston game was very close. The Suns prior three opponents (Denver, Boston, San Antonio) didn't crack 40% shooting, while Houston shot 53%.

Goran Dragic reminded the Rockets (once again) what they were missing by slicing them apart and hitting threes as if they were going out of style.

Still Marcus Morris played pretty good hard defense to keep the Suns holding a tight lead. With a Gerald Green banked three to end the third quarter, the Suns took a 10-point lead into the fourth quarter.

Yet, the Rockets clawed back and tied the game at 100.

Then Markieff Morris hit a lay-up and got fouled with 47 seconds left to put the Suns up 2, it looked like the 

Rockets wouldn’t be able to come back to take the game.  But Morris missed the free throw.

But no one noticed Patrick Beverley He started in the corner for the play, but as Harden drove, Dragic came over to help. Bev moved from the corner to the win and Harden found him for the huge three.

Nevertheless, Marcus and Markieff Morris will step up more and help the Suns to get into the playoffs.  The Suns have 5 home games to only 1 road game in the next week and a half before a long stretch of travel to end the season, and need only to go 15-12 to finish with 48 wins and a near-certain playoff berth. With Eric Bledsoe returning in the next 1-2 weeks, the Suns are the team to beat.  And Philly is yelling for them to win past the playoff berth.

Marcus and Markieff Morris Twins Give Philly A Reason To Watch The Phoenix Suns Make It To The NBA Finals. By Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201

Marcus and Markieff Morris Twins Give Philly A Reason To Watch The Phoenix Suns Make It To The NBA Finals. By Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (267) 293-9201

Marcus Morris and Markieff Morris played together for three years on the Kansas Jayhawks. They'll are NBA stars reunited as teammates on the Phoenix Suns. 

 

The twins and I have two things in common, -I’m talking about the Marcus and Markieff Morris NBA twins stars who play for the Phoenix Suns that is- we both love to pay close attention to who’s on the road to the NBA Finals and more importantly to me, we are family.  The twins’ stars, who are straight out of the Philadelphia streets that are watching, are my cousins. Really.  In life, the Phoenix Suns twins are my second cousins. My mother was a Morris herself before she became a Stone.  Their mom is my first cousin.  Get it?

Now that we have that out of the way, just like saying that the Sixers are going nowhere fast this year in the NBA, if you are a fan of exciting Philly home grown pro basketball you will stick with me in my belief that the Phoenix Suns will make it all the way to the NBA Championship. This will happen because of the Morris twins.          

Now that the NBAs’ Suns have made roster space for Marcus and Markeiff Morris it just makes a whole lot of sense that Phoenix will make it to the finals.

At the end of last season and start of this season, the Phoenix Suns paired the Morris twins to both come off the bench and at times start making these two deadly weapons.

When Marcus and Markeiff left Kansas, under Coach Bill Self, lots of Philly sports fans were hoping that the Sixers should acquire them, as far back as the 2011 draft.  But what end up happening is that the in the long run game is that the Suns snatched them both up, in order to get the best out of both of them.

As I watched the Morris twins last season, I thought that both were fulfilling the good potential of first-round draft status.  I mean, playing in the NBA is never a cake walk for the best of the best. Some sports analyst figured that just because Marcus and Markeiff were separated as team mates for the first time in their basketball dream careers they were affected in a weakening way. Not the case at all.  The Morris twins were now pros. And they were up to the task of being the best at playing ball regardless.  When they were reunited as Suns teammates last season, there was more adjustment to the Markieff' game. Meanwhile, the Marcus game became sharper in the rotation. This season started with the end of the rookie status and the possibility of the twins being the Suns' surprising forwards.  And as reserves both did very well getting off to smooth starts.

Markieff became Western Conference Player of the Week from a bench role.  Marcus’ game was becoming stronger and faster as he was making his way.

Now, the Suns are experiencing much more from the twins. With the ball compliment of each other and their team mates. Returning from the bench with great defense and offense.  Working like top individual players who just so happen to be twins on the same squad.

Markieff’s games were great when he had three strong games posting 43 points and 20 rebounds off the bench.  Marcus is in his brother’s ear giving him the confidence that the Morris power game can be inside more often. Marcus games were just as strong when he has three strong games racking up 44 points and 14 rebounds in the same stretch.   Marcus can play the small-forward spot or the power forward spot like when he was back in their Kansas days as next to Markieff at center.

Since Marcus' became a Sun Markeiff just clicked right back in place the way it was between the two. They have the skill to know where each other is.  They are great at anticipating moves from one another.

"We're just playing hard first and foremost," Marcus said. "Everything will come. Offensively, we're good players. Defensively, we're smart. We just come with energy. It's been there. We're just getting into the groove more and more and more and different stuff is going to happen."

The Phoenix Suns are about 30 to 35 games away from making the play offs. And I’m sure with the Morris twins on board now, scoring, rebounding, and defending quicker it looks like the Suns are going all the way to the NBA finals.