SLAM magazine

SLAM magazine posted online at 1:11 a.m. Tuesday that its sources report that super guard John Wall, the indecisive one from Raleigh, N.C., has finally made up his mind and committed to UK over Miami and Duke. Sources tell SLAM that John Wall, the nation’s top high school point guard, committed to the University of Kentucky tonight. Wall picked Kentucky over Duke, Miami and Florida, among other schools. The 6-4 senior from Word of God in Raleigh, N.C., is viewed as the missing piece for new Wildcats coach John Calipari.

With forward Patrick Patterson recently deciding to return to school (and high-scoring guard Jodie Meeks rumored to also be considering pulling out of the NBA Draft) and recruits like Alabama big man DeMarcus Cousins, as well as a talented core group of returnees, Kentucky is likely to be one of the favorites to win a national championship in 2010. While Alabama point guard Eric Bledsoe signed up to play in Lexington recently, in Calipari’s dribble-drive motion offense, multiple ballhandlers can play together in the up-tempo style. In addition, the recent SLAM co-cover boy is viewed as a one-and-done prospect.

With forward Patrick Patterson recently deciding to return to school (and high-scoring guard Jodie Meeks rumored to also be considering pulling out of the NBA Draft) and recruits like Alabama big man DeMarcus Cousins, as well as a talented core group of returnees, Kentucky is likely to be one of the favorites to win a national championship in 2010. While Alabama point guard Eric Bledsoe signed up to play in Lexington recently, in Calipari’s dribble-drive motion offense, multiple ballhandlers can play together in the up-tempo style. In addition, the recent SLAM co-cover boy is viewed as a one-and-done prospect.

Dolla

Dolla has been booked for murder 23-year-old Aubrey Berry was booked early this morning and his bail was set at $1,000,000. Cops say two other "persons of interest" -- who were allegedly at the airport with Berry at the time of the shooting -- are being questioned. Rapper Dolla (born Roderick Anthony Burton II), 21, was shot and killed while waiting in the valet area of the upscale Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles on Monday in a brash daylight shooting that had diners and shoppers diving for cover as shots rang out.

According to the Times, police said the suspect in the case fled the scene in a silver Mercedes SUV and that a "person of interest" was detained while approaching the ticketing area at Los Angeles International Airport while armed with a gun. TMZ reported that police arrested a man, whom the site identified as 20-year-old Aubrey Berry, at LAX after authorities issued an alert that the suspect may be headed for the airport in an attempt to fly out of Los Angeles. The airport police reportedly spotted a man who matched the description of the alleged assailant sitting in the lobby of one of the terminals. According to TMZ, when police approached Berry, he said he knew why they were there, raised his hands and told them he had a 9 MM gun in his waistband. He was taken into custody.

The shooting took place around 3:10 p.m. in the parking garage of the popular mall as Dolla was standing near the entrance with several other people. Witnesses said four to five shots rang out at the normally quiet shopping center. The rapper, who had come to the mall to shop, was shot in the head and was swiftly taken to the nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he died of his injuries. According to the Times, the LAPD has not announced a motive for the attack, and police are reportedly questioning a woman detained at the scene and a man who allegedly drove from the mall to LAX in a rented silver Mercedes SUV, which police later found in an airport parking lot.

Mary Louise Parker Bathtub

Actress Mary Louise Parker should be well known for playing the role of a single mother in the show Weeds, but may also be known for roles in movies such as “The Client” and “Reckless.” According to showstalker.net, she hasn’t been happy recently after a nude photo of her is doing its rounds on the internet. Mary had to drop her clothes for a bathtub scene during Season 4 of Weeds, although she wasn’t too happy to be doing it.

But apparently the guy in the scene says “I can see your boobies.” Mary Louise Parker is still wondering why people want to search the internet for such an old scene, which apparently wasn’t anything really. Things do get made to sound worse than they normally are though with celebrities. Mary-Louise Parker has always been fine with the sex scenes in her role as Nancy Botwin, a marijuana-selling suburban mom in the Showtime series Weeds, but she thinks that a recent nude scene of her in the bathtub took things a little too far.

"I didn't think I needed to be naked," she tells MORE magazine in its June issue. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter. I knew it was going to be on the Internet: 'Mary Louise shows off her big nipples.' I wish I hadn't done that. I was goaded into it." The show's co-executive producer, Roberto Benabib, defended the moment, stating that the nudity was necessary to convey the character's vulnerability. "We felt at that point in her life, defenses had been so thoroughly stripped away," he says. "There was a nonchalance to the nudity that informed the scene … I thought it was wonderful, one of the five best scenes Mary-Louise has ever done [on Weeds]."