OKLAHOMA CITY _ The wake of the huge success of the All-Star Game has the wheels in Mark Cuban's head turning, wondering if the cavernous venue might make a good home for select Mavericks' home playoff or regular-season games ... Cuban said before Tuesday's game against Oklahoma City that he's planning on doing his due diligence to see if playing an occasional game in Arlington could be feasible ... "If we can make the economics work, we'd look at having a regular season or a playoff game over
So shootaround is ending this morning and the players are clowning around and doing interviews or heading to the bus ... Dirk Nowitzki is trying out for the Cowboys' kicking job ... He takes a basketball and punts it straight up in the air. If he'd been under the jumbotron, he would have hit it. But since he was at one end of the court, the ball zoomed toward the rafters -- and nobody was calling for the fair catch ... The ball splatted down on the court and bounced a good 30 feet in the air ...
Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones were on the second episode of Joe Buck Live, which was several weeks after the debut because of some tough moments on that inaugural show ... But the Mavericks' and Cowboys' owners entertained in their 15-minute segment, although there wasn't much newsy material uncovered ... Jones said he was scared (bleepless) about building the new Cowboys' stadium in this economic climate, and Cuban agreed that owners and businessmen are the ones who have to sign the ultimate