Almost a Victory for Bloggers in Dallas
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... grateful. However, it's not all good news. There's one crazy little caveat, which is a little hard to believe. As these discussions have unfolded, a few people suggested to me that if the NBA were to force Mark Cuban to allow bloggers in the locker room, Cuban would then let dozens and dozens of bloggers in, just to make a mockery of the policy. Each time I heard that theory I said there was no way. That was just too outlandish. I was wrong. Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News writes: ...
Ballin’: David Stern Shows Bloggers Some Love
The Big Lead —
... Denver 118, Dallas 105: The Mavericks were blitzed 58-35 in the second half and now are just 1/2 a game ahead of the Warriors and one game ahead of the Nuggets in the contest for the 7th playoff spot in the West. You know they won’t be able to hold onto it. Will Cuban show mercy on Avery because of Dirk’s injury, or will it get ugly? And don’t you just love how the NBA stepped in and told Mark Cuban that he must open his locker room to bloggers? Priceless quote from Cubes: “…We will encourage all ...
Got a Blog? Mark Cuban Will Let You in His Locker Room
FanHouse —
... 's office when he got the email/call/David Stern Yoda-like hologram message that he would be allowing bloggers back into the Mavericks locker room, regardless of whether he likes it or not. ...
Someone Get Perez Hilton On The Phone Because The Mavs Locker Room Is Open To ALL Bloggers!
AwfulAnnouncing —
... Well the ban has been lifted (because the NBA ordered him to lift it), and you're invited to come.....all of you. From the Dallas Morning News via ...
Mark Cuban Leverages Lifting Of Blogger Ban Into Pissing Everyone Off [Mark Cuban]
Deadspin —
... As many suspected would inevitably happen, the NBA had stepped in and ordered Mark Cuban to start allowing bloggers into the locker room. At last, those with Movable Type software can finally have the opportunity to see Devean George's penis. Cuban, of course, isn't taking this lying down. ...
Bloggers 1, Mark Cuban 0
SLAM Online —
The League has forced Mark Cuban to lift his ridiculous blogger ban in the Dallas locker room. A victory for geeks the world over! ...
Don't buy what Cuban's smoking
We Rite Goode —
... surgery or understanding legal torts. Besides, plenty of reporters are awful writers and many columnists are annoyingly bombastic--it's just all ironed out by the newsroom, thanks to editors' rewrites and organizations' limits on what they can cover and argue. Really, reporters only have three things that bloggers don't: Access, editors, and consequences. But access--long the biggest barrier to legitimacy--isn't a problem in Dallas, thanks to Mark Cuban's decision to allow " all bloggers " to apply for Mavericks media credentials...regardless of age, affiliation, or experience. ...
High Five
Foul Balls —
A speedy tour of the interweb as I make the bold prediction that Michigan State will upset Memphis. Then again, I had the Hoyas going to the final four... Mark Cuban thinks bloggers should sit on the back of bus. [ Dallas Morning News ] You most definitely want to be invited to housesit for Hideki Matsui. [ ...
Breaking News: MSM Still Pissed We Exist
Hardwood Paroxysm —
Deadspin pointed out that the Associated Press Sports Editors are ticked that Cuban went back on his word. Because, clearly, there needs to be a huge separation. I could not possibly be on the same level as Jay Mariotti or a kid that joins at 21 as a beat reporter out of college. We started off mad as hell at Cuban. Now we find ourselves torn. We're so confused. Who's side are we on, anyway?
Cuban Can Cover Devean’s Ding-A-Ling No Longer
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
We found out from DEADSPIN ( via DMN ) that Mark Cuban has been forced to credential bloggers for Mavericks games, after a previous, *well-reasoned* ban. D-Spin Editor Will Leitch puts in a way we wish we could’ve: “ ...
Worst of the Night: March 27, 2008
Basketbawful —
... Mark Cuban: The NBA finally stepped in and ended Cuban's one-billionaire war against the blogging menace. Never one to be shown up, Cuban has officially opened up the Dallas locker room to everybody. And I really do mean everybody. "We will encourage all bloggers to apply [for press credentials], whether they be someone on blogspot who has been posting for a couple weeks, kids blogging for their middle school Web site or those that work for big companies. We won't discriminate at all." Oh, that Mark Cuban is so wiley and clever! I bet...wait, ...
Lottery-Bound Owner With A Boner Boldly Opens The Mavs’ Locker Room To Bloggers
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... Of Mark Cuban’s Assocation-mandated about face in promising to make the Mavericks’ locker room accessable to bloggers “whether they be someone on blogspot who has been posting for a couple weeks, kids blogging for their middle school Web site or those that work for big companies”, ...
Bloggers vs Cuban...
Triviality of Basketball —
....who happens to be a blogger himself! The league has forced Cuban to lift to ban to bloggers in the locker room. In any case or another every blogger now will have its entry on the Mavs' locker room. Yes, Everyone! http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/032808dnspomavsblog.3623e01.html [image] ...
Michael Wilbon Just Doesn’t Understand
Mr. Irrelevant, a D.C. Sports Blog From the Brothers Mottram —
... Because of the actions of one specific blogger (not himself), Mark Cuban recently banned all bloggers from the Mavericks’ locker room. David Stern made Cuban lift the ban, primarily because the blogger in question is a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, which led Cuban to declare that anyone with a blog now has access to the Mavs, finally leading to this informed debate between Messrs Kornheiser and Wilbon: ...
