AROUND THE WEB " BANNING THE BLOGGERS.(SPORTS)(FIRST DOWN)

Byline: John Taylor, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban lit up the blogosphere this week by, of all things, banning bloggers from his team's locker room.

Cuban, as you probably know, is a blogger himself, maintaining BlogMaverick.com with his riffs on technology, money, business and basketball.

Cuban said his issue isn't the blogger in question (Tim MacMahon of the Dallas Morning News), but rather fairness. MacMahon doesn't write for the dear old "Dead Tree Edition" but for DallasNews.com, the newspaper's Web site. Cuban said if he continued ...