Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

March Madness is officially back!  In this post, I include my coverage related to both the Men’s and Women’s tournaments.  I include my brackets, potential Final Four teams, potential upset, and a bonus joke bracket.   Men’s I’m not sure who will win because I keep second guessing myself about everyone.   I believe I have had 6 different teams winning it in my mind since the conference tournaments started, with none of them feeling particularly good at any point.   That said, my bracket is below. My decision making largely boiled down to 5 things:   number of players who could be drafted (with a focus on upperclassmen), three-point percent, free throw percent, defensive rating, and how I expected each team would fair in the matchup.   My Final Four Kansas I don’t feel good about Kansas winning, but I happen to think that their matchups are most favorable prior to the Final Four out of everybody.   Overall, am I putting too much p...

Every year, people seem to gravitate towards certain teams during the tournament and often seem to choose one player to gravitate towards because they are having a great game.  This year, there will be a lot of focus on some elite younger players, but there are several upperclassmen who deserve a lot of attention.  In this post, I focus on 10 upperclassmen who could be exciting to watch or essential for their respective teams.  As a bonus, I also focused on 10 players competing for top picks in the NBA Draft, most of whom are underclassmen. As a note, all stats are per  https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb /.   Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky, Jr, PF/C Kentucky is an amazing team, and Tshiebwe is the biggest reason why.   The Sporting News Player of the Year has put up monster numbers, averaging 17.0 PPG, 15.2 RPG, 3.4 stocks per game (steals+blocks), and shot 60.2% from the field.   He is one of the most dominant players in the paint due to his basketb...

On March 5 th , it was revealed that WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, was arrested in February for having hash oil at an airport in Russia, which is illegal in the country.  Normally this is a non-story, as most of the focus tends to be about how she shouldn’t have brought it (the response tends to be about a person’s view of the laws or a personal relation to that individual) or why she was in Russia to begin with (she was playing for a team in Russia, which most players are forced to do due to the salaries overseas compared to domestically, but that’s neither applicable here nor a conversation most sports fans seem ready to have).  However, this situation is different:  ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and Russian governments have shown no interest in doing any sort of negotiations. Normally, this isn’t that big of a story since there are policies in place for U.S. citizens who are arrested in a foreign country. ...