Bloggers in the Locker Room. Its the Pros vs the Joes

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Why Must You Tempt Me, Mark? Why?
Published 3/30/2008 by Hardwood Paroxysm at Hardwood Paroxysm
So after all the hub-hub on Friday, I got in touch with the Mavericks' media office. Some very nice people fielded my call and told me what to submit and said they'd have an answer for me in the beginning of next week. But that wasn't enough. Cuban's now asking for personal submissions. (Thanks to Dallas Basketball. Both for the kind words and the link.) Oh, Holy Christ. It's such a brilliant move. By basically calling us before the throne, he single handedly manages to wrangle control of the situation. The submissions in the comments range ...

Cuban Says Pros Before Joes, Brah [Best Ban Ever]
Published 3/30/2008 by Christmas Ape at Deadspin
... Mark Cuban let loose a expectedly jaundiced reaction to David Stern's mandate to allow bloggers into the Maverick's locker room, choosing the preferred broad brush of bloggers as the snarking "internet equivalent of Talk Soup or VH1's 'Best ..... ' series." It's problematic that he frames the separation as unpaid-hacks-versus-paid-professionals, since, of course, it was a paid newspaper writer/blogger who prompted the ban in the first place. ...

Cuban Amends His Blogger Invite, Chaos To Follow
Published 3/30/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... “Now that my ban on bloggers in the locker room has been lifted by the NBA,” writes Mavs owner Mark Cuban, “the ‘Joes’ of the blogger world will have the same access as the ‘Pros’. Those that get paid. I can’t wait to see the results.” ...

Monday Rundown: Hideki Matsui Is Rather Creepy
Published 3/31/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... Mark Cuban discusses lifting his ban on bloggers in the Mavericks locker room, saying that he “can’t wait to see the results” when the ‘pros’ (the folks from newspapers, radio, and television) are given the same access as the ‘joes’ (the bloggers). I love the point he makes about those who have raised objections towards allowing bloggers into the locker room — the loudest critics of giving credentials to bloggers are people in the mainstream media. As Cuban says, if bloggers are given the same access that the ...

Monday Mini-Bullets
Published 3/31/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Mark Cuban's wacky new blog credentialing policy. I'd like to see this on the org chart. Owner personally oversees direction of financing, direction of franchise, major transactions, arena deals, sponsorships ... and deciding which bloggers to credential. The sooner this whole process gets into the hands of the professionals in his public relations department the better. At least one good blogger, ...

Mark Cuban Denies FireAvery Blog Access to Locker Room and Press Pass
Published 4/1/2008 by Will Brinson at FanHouse
... Upon hearing this I contacted Sarah Melton, the Mavericks Director of Basketball Communications, to inquire about getting a credential for the game Wednesday against Golden State. I received no response from Sarah and on Saturday Cuban made a post on Blog Maverick that to receive a credential bloggers should post a sample of their work as a comment on his blog and he would be the sole judge as to who receives a credential. Even though I consider this to be quite questionable, it his team and he can do what he wants regarding who has access to it, I posted a ...

Links: Let’s Get Ready To Atrophy!
Published 4/1/2008 by Lang Whitaker at SLAM Online
... But the best thing about this is that in his blog post acknowledging the new NBA policy, Mark Cuban singles out one young journalist, one bright young mind, as an example of all that can go right in the world of journalism. ...

I'm A Joe!
Published 4/2/2008 by Jake <info@mavsmoneyball.com> at Mavs Moneyball: Front Page Posts
Mark Cuban outlined his new policy of seeing how bloggers can do in the locker room alongside traditional media beat reporters in a blog entry called "Bloggers In The Locker Room. It's the Pros vs the Joes." He invited bloggers to post examples of their writing in the comments, and then he would credential them if he felt that they were good enough. Well, I guess I passed the cut because the Mavs emailed me today and offered me credentials. I'm a Joe. :) ...

Suns do “their job” against Timberwolves, win 117-88
Published 4/5/2008 by Steve Fan at AZ Sports Hub - Arizona's Destination for Sports - Blogs - Podcasts - Forums
... Hopefully that Suns win will come on Sunday as Phoenix hosts the Dallas Mavs (12:30 PM) on national TV. It’s going to be a great game as always when these two teams face each other. It’s D’Antoni vs Johnson, Dirk vs his best friend, Cuban vs the NBA, the Commish and, as you know, the bloggers….looking forward to the game. ...

Mark Cuban Gets Geeky With the Shot Clock
Published 4/23/2008 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
... took some time off from feuding with bloggers to provide us with a somewhat interesting look into why it's possible (and accurate) for the shot clock to occasionally show more time on it than the game clock. Initially this doesn't seem to make sense, as common sense tells you that if there are less than 24 seconds showing on the game clock (23.6, for example), then the 24 second shot clock should be turned off. But according to Cuban, ...