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Cuban's Worlds Collide: Bloggers In the Locker Room?

March 11, 2008 | 8:10 PM

Internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's worlds are colliding (see "Seinfeld" reference here). The avid Web writer posed an interesting question on his personal blog on Monday: "Should bloggers be allowed in the Mavs locker room?"

"Conceptually it's not a big deal. A blogger, a beat writer, columnists. The medium they use to deliver their content should be irrelevant. No question about it," he writes. "But then there is the question of real world constraints." The area where media conducts interviews after a big game is pretty cramped as it is -- without bloggers in the mix.

Read the rest of his commentary here. It's probably something that sports teams -- major and minor -- have had to wrestle with as the new media writers and traditional scribes compete for space and time.

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