It’s crazy how excited everyone is over this Pearl Washington jersey. Wait, didn’t Pearl play for the Nets? That must be why everyone was so excited. Because everyone assumed New Jersey would get the No.1 pick in the draft. Because everyone assumed New Jersey should have it. Well, I for one, prefer to spend my shoulds elsewhere.
Today, TIPs looks at who the top 14 picks in the draft should pick next month.
Friday morning, University of Kentucky coach John Calipari put to rest the rumors that he’s leaving the Wildcats for any number of NBA openings next season by tweeting that he’s staying to finish what he started – which, presumably means, he’s got a handful of future NBA Rookies of the Year left to usher out of college basketball.
Either that, or he meant that he still hasn’t finished the rest of “Friday Night Lights” Season 4.

If one thing in this world is certain, it’s that Lady Gaga is here to stay. If two things in this world are certain, it’s that Lady Gaga is here to stay and even in hard economic times, the price of premium seats at sporting events go up.
What if the best seats in your team’s arena or stadium were sold to you like condos? Does that sound like something you might be interested in?
In the past two weeks, the Bowl Championship Series has made a string of moves that are about as strange as that time your weird uncle Harold signed up for a MySpace account.
Let ‘em paint their face, gawk at Erin Andrews, memorize the chants, co-opt their team’s glory as their own. That’s what college is there for. Live it up. This isn’t a brushback pitch against the college athletics experience. But this is a clarification that none of that is basketball. There are the naysayers who berate the pro game, ignore the women’s game and deign to call the college game the best basketball has to offer.
But those people are confused. They must be, because it’s not even close.