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Hoop Schemes

Mark Cuban is the rare sports-team owner who acts like a fan. Do his on-court antics merit a technical foul or the game ball?READ»

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Trump School of Business III

Not about to be Trump'd, Mark Cuban, cofounder of New Economy wunderkind Broadcast.com and now owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is slated to host a new reality TV show. Dubbed "The Benefactor," the show will basicallly entail Cuban ...READ»

Marketing Mavericks

Fast Company first crossed paths with Mark Cuban when he was president of Broadcast.com. Now, he's owner of the Dallas Mavericks. This summer, Cuban shared some of the tactics he used to help turn around the team. How good is your ...READ»

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iFive: Verizon Wireless Preps Kindle Killer, Mark Cuban Prevents Layoffs, and Frank Gehry Likes Ike in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation had too much to drink and bought a bunch of stuff he didn't need. Here's today's innovation news: 1. Can you read me now? Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told attendees at the CTIA ...READ»

Mark Cuban: He's everywhere

At Dallas Mavericks basketball games, team owner Mark Cuban sometimes attracts attention with his histrionics. But in the movie business, he's attracting a very different (and more positive) kind of attention: he's one of the few ...READ»

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Mark Cuban Charged with Insider Trading

Mark Cuban, occasional bad-boy owner of the Dallas Mavericks and dot-com billionaire, has been charged charges of insider trading by the SEC. Was losing money the reason behind the trade?READ»

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The Branson Called You

Richard Branson, the high-energy CEO of Virgin, has signed on with Fox to develop a new reality TV show. Like the business moguls Mark Cuban and Donald Trump before him, Branson will challenge contestants to overcome a series of ...READ»

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Battling Billionaires

Mark Cuban and Richard Branson are taking on the Donald with their own brand of reality TV. Here's our sneak preview.READ»

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The Six Best Sports Insider Blogs

Sports blogs are among the most widely read, but most of them aren't worth reading. Here, Fast Company takes a look at the six best sports blogs written by those who actually live the sports life -- athletes, owners, managers, and front-office executives.READ»

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Nerves of Tin

The sports section in today's New York Times included a fascinating article about sports franchise leaders who can't stomach game day. The GM of the Giants paces in an underground tunnel. Others flee the press box for other hidden ...READ»

Reality TV's Newest Sensation: Life Coaches

Staying up late to watch the end of the Red Sox-Yankees match-up last night I was bombarded in the wee hours by Fox ads touting their latest reality shows: My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss and Richard Branson's, The Rebel Billionaire. ...READ»

FAST TALK: Your Money

So you don't feel as rich as you did two years ago. And you're not retiring anytime soon. It's time to take stock of the role of money in your life, the road to financial security, and the price of success.READ»

From Corner Office to Main Street, USA

There comes a time in every leaders life when one must ask one's self: Do I accept that invitation to speak at a conference? Do I pen that op-ed piece? Do I... host my own reality TV show? In the New York Post this weekend, Laura ...READ»

Report from Blogworld: Closing Keynote With Mark Cuban

The following is a live transcript of highlights from Mark Cuban's closing keynote @ BlogWorldExpo. Connection between Dancing With the Stars and blogging. Dancing With the Stars taught me value of different mediums. People ...READ»

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Hobo 3.0: A Convention for the New, New, New Economy!

Don't miss the premier tech-biz-media convention for the new, new, new economy!READ»

Heart, Meet Sleeve

There is a great article about advertising in soccer jerseys in the August 2005 issue of FourFourTwo magazine. There is hardly a soccer club, at any level, that wouldn't sport its sponsor's logo on the chest of the jersey. And no ...READ»

What I Want

We asked a dozen business leaders what they're lusting after this year. The results might surprise you.READ»

Love Is the Killer App

If you want to fix your future, start by fixing yourself. In the face of war and recession, what the business world needs is less greed -- and more love. So says Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders, who argues that now more than ever, the road to prosperity is paved with a commitment to generosity.READ»

Web 2.0: Wish You Were Here

I've been ducking in and out of the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, and it has been pretty consistently great. Just to name drop for a moment: the coffee breaks offered the chance to sip java with the likes of former ...READ»

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Steve Jobs on Dancing With the Stars?

No, it's not Jobs, but his original sidekick, Steve Wozniak, whom he cofounded Apple with in 1976. "The Other Steve," as Wozniak is known, will be on the next season of the hit ABC reality show, competing toe-to-toe with the likes of ...READ»

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Sports: The Owners Club

An article in The Chicago Tribune earlier this week speculated that local businessman John A. Canning Jr. may be the leading candidate to purchase the Cubs when the season ends, even if he is not the highest bidder. His ...READ»

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ABC: Another Bevy of Crap

Remember when people you knew watched ABC? Yeah, me neither. If there's any doubt as to why the network is in trouble, has dragged down Disney for much of the last seven years and emperiled Michael Eisner's job, just take a look at ...READ»

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The Money Issue

Welcome to our first-ever (and first annual) Money Issue. Don't worry, we haven't been possessed by the spirit of Malcolm Forbes. What you won't find in this issue are the utterly predictable (and totally unreliable) gimmicks that ...READ»