mark cuban rocks

If I were the owner of a pro sports franchise, Mark Cuban would be my example to emulate. The dude is hands-down the coolest owner in sports and one of the coolest people in sports, period. It's nice to have a guy who actually seems like a regular fan who bought a team because he liked the game and not just the money he could make from it. And he's not afraid to say what he thinks, about the refs or the league rules or other teams or his own team or anything else he has an opinion on. The guy is such a blast of realness to an otherwise aloof, arrogant, greedy bunch of corporate pigs.

For example, check out the following quote from this post on Cuban's blog (taken from Mike Straka's foxnews.com Grrr! column). This was Cuban's take on part of an interview session with reporters in the locker room after the Mavs dropped Game 5 of the NBA Finals to the Heat in overtime.

"I told them I would [be happy to answer questions] if they asked good questions and didn't ask the same clichéd questions they had asked after other games. It was interesting how quiet everyone got.

"Then someone asked, 'Is this your worst loss ever?' What the f*** kind of question is that? Is this for a VH1 special? 'Worst Losses Ever?' If it was, then maybe it was a decent question. Otherwise, how do you answer that question?

... So I told the reporter to "Ask me a real f***ing question".

Right on. Is this guy cool or what? Anyone who will just be himself in any situation, regardless of how popular it makes him or how much I happen to agree with him, is good peoples in my book. Hopefully he'll be hanging around the league for many years to come.