Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

After another exciting offseason and draft process, the 2026 WNBA season is upon us!  In this post, I included predictions for the standings, playoffs, and awards (I included top-3 for each award, though most only have one vote per award instead of 3), while also including an analysis of each team.  In the analysis, I also included an X-Factor who is a role player who could make a big impact for the team.  As a note, I discussed players who might have been waived from teams since I wrote most of these predictions and analyses prior to the final wave of cuts that occurred; my apologies about any confusion upon reading these and not seeing any players in the roster.     Predicted Standings Las Vegas Aces New York Liberty Atlanta Dream Indiana Fever Los Angeles Sparks Minnesota Lynx Phoenix Mercury Dallas Wings Golden State Valkyries Chicago Sky Washington Mystics Toronto Raptors Connecticut Sun Seattle Storm Portland Fire ...

The WNBA Draft is in the books, and it was very eventful!  There was one trade and a lot of interesting picks and surprises, including a first-round pick of someone I didn’t think would be drafted.  I included my grades below.  Something worth noting is that my grades typically favor if the pick makes sense for the team versus what I think of the player, though this is also accounted for.   Atlanta Dream Drafted Madina Okot (13) Indya Nivar (28) Kejia Ran (43) I didn’t think Atlanta needed to do a ton entering the draft, but I thought they did a good job building their depth.  I really like the selection of Okot for Atlanta.  While she is really raw, especially with her passing and shooting, she is an impressive defender, finisher, and rebounder with amazing size.  It’s not surprising that she is raw since she didn’t play basketball until 2020, but she is much more raw than most players her age due to this; as such, I am a little nervous ...