Mark Cuban, Dancing With the Stars

mark cuban

Thanks for the memories

I can't conceive of what it's going to be like next week without the sight of Mark Cuban kicking up his heels on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. I was so disconsolate that Gawker Media videographer Richard Blakeley cooked up this montage to cheer me up. Let me tell you, Microsoft should be investing $240 million in this guy.

4:57 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,011 views, 1 comment

Latest by TheTypeset: Man, this makes being a billionaire seem pretty awesome. (seriously) more »

fatblogging

Mark Cuban, now imperiously slim

Kicked off of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, Mark Cuban reveals that he's lost 30 pounds in the course of preparing for and performing on the show. That points to his future career: fatblogging, like his good buddy Jason Calacanis, the wantrepreneur who's turned himself into the Richard Simmmons of the Internet.

2:28 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Owen Thomas
363 views, 1 comment

Latest by mandarin: Who cares? more »

mark cuban

I don't feel like dancing

Alas, Mark Cuban. You soft-shoed your way into my heart — but not America's. Cuban has been booted off Dancing with the Stars. His crime? Letting his nerd flag fly, in high-waisted pants and black-framed glasses. Here's a recap of his brief dancing career:

9:51 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Owen Thomas
408 views, 1 comment

Latest by pseudonym: Does he get to keep the girl? more »

geek pride

Mark Cuban geeks out

Give billionaire Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban this much: At least he didn't faint during last night's Dancing with the Stars on ABC. It wasn't his best performance, but I'm betting he'll be safe during tonight's results show: The hypernerdy glasses he donned during an "I Dream of Jeannie"-inspired number played to his core audience of Valleywag readers.

3:38 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,036 views, 1 comment

Latest by AceKiller: See ya Poindexter! Yoooooooooooooooou're outa' here! more »

geek pride

Mark Cuban has all the luck

Once again, Internet billionaire Mark Cuban is safe for one more week on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." This one I didn't get — but then again, I didn't really understand why Yahoo paid $5.7 billion for Broadcast.com, either.

12:49 PM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Owen Thomas
373 views, 2 comments

Latest by pseudonym: I like how on all of this clips, Cuban looks like he's muttering under his breath along with some kind more »

geek pride

Mark Cuban's dancing feet sidestep Wii, PlayStation

Despite Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban's tenacity on Dancing With the Stars and his status as Silicon Valley demigod, he is not considered a "who's who" by Activision. He's been left out of the videogame publisher's Wii and PlayStation 2 titles based on the ABC show, which allows you to fulfill your most nerdly ballroom-dancing fantasies in the privacy of your own living room. But sadly, Cuban's hot-trotting shoes and puppeteer-spontaneous jazz-finger outbursts are not part of the package. Instead the adaptations stick you with the likes of Emmitt Smith and Joey Lawrence.

10:13 AM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Mary Jane Irwin
243 views, 1 comment

Latest by sample032: "Wii and PlayStation 2 titles based on the ABC show" There's a "Dancing with the Stars" video game? Bringing reality more »

geek pride

Mark Cuban bores the bojangles out of us

So far on Dancing with the Stars, Mark Cuban could do no wrong, as far as I was concerned. But last night's performance? A disaster all around. Slow and tepid dancing, and Cuban's expression, under caked-on makeup, looked like the Joker's frozen smile. Not even geek pride could get me to vote for this.

1:14 PM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Owen Thomas
670 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tim Faulkner: I blame the Viennese. I'm sure Cuban will too. more »

geek pride

Shocked by his win, Mark Cuban dances on

Mark Cuban is safe for another week on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." From his grim expression, though, you'd think he was all but convinced he was off the show — note how it takes a few seconds for his win to register. Kym Johnson, his dancing partner, also seems shocked by the voters' choice.

8:54 AM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,020 views, 3 comments

Latest by athenasystem: good for him. I hope he's hitting that... more »

geek pride

Mark Cuban feels no pain

From the tone of his blog post yesterday, I was prepared to see Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban fall down on the dance floor, writhing in pain as his career on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" went up in flame. Instead, the Web's ultimate good-time Charlie kept jazz-handing his way through the number, smiling all the while. Was he hopped up on ~~hardcore pain medication~~ endorphins or what? Still, a lesson for every startup founder: Set expectations low, and then exceed them.

10:56 AM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By Owen Thomas
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news flash

Mark Cuban admits he can't dance

Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban warns viewers that, well, he's going to suck tonight on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," thanks to a recent hip-replacement surgery that left the muscles of one leg weak. That's okay, Mark — from the very beginning, every vote for you was already a sympathy vote.

10:24 AM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Mark Cuban, Dancing With the Stars

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