publication date: Saturday, November 4, 2006 (part of Round XXVIII)

category: Business

clue: Only mavericks cash in on the web's real potential.

explanation: Cuban was an entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com for $5 billion at the height of the dot-com boom. He later purchased the Dallas Mavericks. more…

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Matthew Preston, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Tony Peters, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Todd Brotsch, Adrianne Rodgers, Kerry Odell, Josh Paddison, and Aaron Weiss


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