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New page: right|thumb| Mark Cuban '''Mark Cuban''' is the current owner of HDNet and well known as the NBA Dallas Mavericks owner. Mark became a billionaire by sell...
[[Image:mark-cuban.jpg|right|thumb| Mark Cuban]]

'''Mark Cuban''' is the current owner of HDNet and well known as the [[NBA]] [[Dallas Mavericks]] owner. Mark became a billionaire by selling his dotcom company Broadcast.com to [[Yahoo]]. Worth approximately 2.8 billion dollars, he made number 133 on Forbes' "World's Richest People" in 2007. Mark, a native of suburban [[Pittsburg]], Pennsylvania is considered controversial on a number of issues both on and off the [[basketball]] court.

==Fallen Patriot Fund==
Through the Mark Cuban Foundation, he matched 1 million dollars of his personal money with donations. All funds to be for familes of U.S. military persons killed or injured during [[Iraq]] [[Afghanistan]] wars. <ref name="Investing">[http://www.investingvalue.com/investment-leaders/mark-cuban/index.htm Mark Cuban Biography] Investing Value</ref>

==Mavericks Owner==
He is very passionate having paid well over $1 million in fines for lashing out at officials and referees. <ref name="Investing"></ref>

==Politics==
"Independent, leaning to [[libertarian]]. I vote for the candidate who I think will do the least." <ref>[ Austin American-Statesman (May 19, 2006)</ref>

==Redacted movie==
Cuban had financed the [[anti-American]] movie Redacted, which flopped at the box office. It was a story of rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers.

==SEC==
Mark Cuban has been named in an insider trading scandal. Accused of saving $750,000. by dumping his stake in an [[Internet]] company just after he heard confidentially that the company was about to issue low-priced shares. <ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122693827604333637.html SEC Calls a Foul on NBA's Cuban, Alleges Insider Trades in Web Firm] Wall Street Journal, NOVEMBER 18, 2008</ref>


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