Mark Cuban

The moment Matt Barnes jumped, the Dallas Mavericks bench went crazy. Pau Gasol had just launched a corner three-pointer, and Barnes jumped so he could tip in a possible putback. It wasn't needed. Gasol's three-pointer swished into the net and marked one of many clutch plays that led to the Lakers' 112-108 overtime victory Sunday over the Dallas Mavericks.  The play gave the Lakers a 103-101 lead with 3:48 left in overtime, but the Mavericks believe the basket shouldn't have counted.

The moment Matt Barnes jumped, the Dallas Mavericks bench went crazy. Pau Gasol had just launched a corner three-pointer, and Barnes jumped so he could tip in a possible putback. It wasn't needed. Gasol's three-pointer swished into the net and marked one of many clutch plays that led to the Lakers' 112-108 overtime victory Sunday over the Dallas Mavericks.  The play gave the Lakers a 103-101 lead with 3:48 left in overtime, but the Mavericks believe the basket shouldn't have counted.

Talked on Monday night to Mark Cuban , owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and the guy many fans believe can save the Dodgers if allowed to buy the team. If Cuban lives up to the hype, he's gets his own TV show here. He's more Hollywood than Frank & Jamie ever were, and they were really working at it. Cuban also has lots of money, which makes him different too. Forbes recently ranked him the 459th richest person in the world. Someone needs to breathe some life into the Dodgers, and who better than someone with a big mouth, big pockets and who would be a big pain for Bud Selig ?

A new kind of Mav-wreck It was a week that packed enough drama for a season's worth of episodes on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" - or "Jersey Shore," for that matter. There were confrontations, finger-pointing and plenty of regrets, all involving one Lamar Joseph Odom. It started with the infamous locker-room clash last weekend between Odom and his boss, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who reportedly asked his mopey, underachieving forward whether he wanted "to go for it or not?"

Mark Cuban, the high-profile owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, said today he would consider adding the Dodgers to his portfolio. As the unusually public Dodgers' divorce saga plays out, Cuban said he has heard from many Dodgers fans appealing to him to buy the team. "More than I can count," Cuban wrote in an e-mail. Frank McCourt contends he is the sole owner of the Dodgers and insists the team is not for sale. Jamie McCourt contends she is a co-owner, and her lawyer has said she has lined up financing for a possible bid to buy out her estranged husband.

A film studio owned by technology and media entrepreneur Mark Cuban asked a U.S. federal court to force Google Inc. to identify people who put its copyrighted videos on Google Video and YouTube, Cuban said Wednesday. Magnolia Pictures, whose films include "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and director Steven Soderbergh's "Bubble," asked a Dallas federal court to issue a subpoena to Google. "We don't expect to get valid user information," Cuban said.

Mark Cuban, the outspoken Internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, was accused by federal regulators Monday of illegal insider trading, an allegation that could jeopardize his chances of buying the Chicago Cubs baseball team. In a civil lawsuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Cuban used nonpublic inside information in June 2004 to sell 600,000 shares of online search firm Mamma.com Inc. and avoid more than $750,000 in losses.

He's younger, hipper and has less alarming hair. Now Mark Cuban is about to find out if he can trump the Donald as a TV star. Cuban, Internet billionaire and feisty owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, is host and star of ABC's latest reality series, "The Benefactor," in which he leads a group of competitors through a series of on-the-fly character tests in a battle for $1 million. The concept sounds suspiciously similar to that of NBC's smash "The Apprentice."

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has apologized to the mother of Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin. Cuban made a crack after a Mavericks loss in Dallas on Saturday in their NBA playoff series. According to Cuban, a fan called the Nuggets "thugs." Cuban looked at Martin's mother, Lydia Moore of Dallas, and said, "That includes your son." Martin's agent told the Denver Post that Cuban said to Martin's mother that her son is a "punk."

It's coming like a tidal wave. Mark Cuban is going on and on about -- whatever: the stock market, the digital revolution, NBA referees. The Dallas Mavericks owner doesn't just talk, Cuban wages never-ending campaigns with vast scenarios and supporting data. It's like Jack Nicholson's description of being launched into space in "Terms of Endearment," playing astronaut Garrett Breedlove: "There were countdowns when I had my doubts.

Lamar Odom reportedly told Mark Cuban to "stop playing games" when the Dallas Mavericks owner questioned the player's commitment to the team during halftime of the Mavericks' game in Memphis on Saturday night.  That's really not the right way to respond to your boss in pretty much any situation, but especially not when you're the reigning sixth man of the year putting up career-low points while your team is fighting for a playoff spot. And now Odom is no longer playing games with the Mavericks, or any other NBA team this season.

Another Cuban crisis Mark Cuban is back. The Dallas Mavericks owner who had been strangely restrained with his comments going back to last season's championship run lashed out at officials Wednesday for what he considered a rash of bad calls in the lockout-shortened season. "These were officials that have been part of the league for years, and it was just off-the-charts bad," Cuban told ESPNDallas.com after Mavericks Coach Rick Carlisle had been ejected following a pair of fourth-quarter technical fouls in a loss to Oklahoma City.

The owner of the reigning NBA champions will not be the next owner of the Dodgers. Mark Cuban was eliminated from the Dodgers' ownership sweepstakes Friday, along with baseball executive and former agent Dennis Gilbert, according to two people familiar with the process but not authorized to discuss it. At least eight bidders advanced to the second round Friday, including a group led by Magic Johnson and veteran baseball executive Stan Kasten...

The Dodgers received "more than 10" opening bids for the team by Monday's deadline, according to a person familiar with the sale but not authorized to discuss it. As the bankers handling the sale evaluate the bids, prospective buyers can evaluate whether to join forces. In addition, because the bankers can waive the deadline at their discretion, new bidders could emerge. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke has explored whether to bid for the Dodgers, two people familiar with the sale process said Monday.

Concert giant AEG is teaming up with Ryan Seacrest, Mark Cuban and Hollywood powerhouse talent firm Creative Artists Agency to launch a pop culture and music cable channel that is expected to debut in June. Called AXS, the cable network primarily will carry live programming aimed at entertainment aficionados. It will include a heavy diet of music and concert coverage as well as lifestyle programming. Los Angeles-based AEG's downtown L.A. Live complex will serve as the network's on-air home.

Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, said Thursday that he plans to participate in the bidding process for the Dodgers. The process could begin next week, when the investment bank handling the sale of the Dodgers is expected to provide prospective buyers with confidential financial data in a bid book. He "will see a book," Cuban wrote in an email. Cuban told The Times last month that he had inquired about buying the Dodgers but "wasn't interested" at an asking price of at least $1 billion.

Sorry, Mark Cuban. It's just not a good year for Mavericks. John Thompson Chino

"Talk about a posse? He has a posse two billion strong." Mark Cuban, Dallas Maverick owner, on Chinese prospect Yao Ming.

Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, said he offered to buy the Dodgers several months ago but declined to enter negotiations when owner Frank McCourt said the price would be in the range of $1 billion to $1.2 billion. "At that price, I wasn't interested," Cuban said Tuesday. Cuban, who has lost out in bidding for the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers, said he remains interested in buying the Dodgers. Cuban said he could not recall exactly when he made his overture to McCourt, but said he did so "in anticipation of what might happen.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told gossip site TMZ.com that he isn't sure he would be interested in purchasing the Dodgers because of what current owner Frank McCourt might have done to the franchise. "I have an interest in Major League Baseball for the right deal," Cuban said. "But it's just such a mess, right? I can't imagine that it's not going to be such a mess that it's [not] going to make it hard to turn around. " Cuban said the Mavericks were "a mess" when he purchased them in 2000.