Will Cuban News Today

Patrick Dumont says of his family’s majority purchase of the NBA franchise: “It feels like I need to pinch myself.”

1. Thank you, Mark Cuban. Over the years, I’ve written a handful of columns (last June and in 2018, for example) advocating for sports to stop playing the national anthem before games. There’s no reason other than “tradition” to play the anthem at sporting events. None. Zilch. Zippo. The playing of the anthem is now a culture war talking point more than anything. And Cuban proved this by never announcing his decision that the Mavericks would no longer play the anthem before games. He n...