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Mark Cuban about to get #MeToo ed

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wine razzle meetinghouse
  02/21/18
cuban's gotta go
big marketing idea whorehouse
  02/21/18
Dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame?
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  02/21/18
Glad this is not forgotten, lmao.
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Lol @ metoo in pro sports
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This is Donald Sterling-level bad. Allowing your entire fema...
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wine razzle meetinghouse
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Why should anyone like Sneed be fired for crimes completely ...
erotic point
  02/21/18
#MavsToo
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  02/21/18
just to be that guy, were Ussery and Snead difficult to fire...
bespoke chapel
  02/22/18
I’m appalled by Mark Cuban’s blatant disregard for the victi...
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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:26 PM
Author: wine razzle meetinghouse

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22531647/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-says-blame-keeping-former-employee?sf182700917=1

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was solely responsible for the decision to keep former Mavs.com reporter Earl K. Sneed on staff after two separate domestic violence incidents, telling ESPN on Wednesday that it was a "horrible mistake in hindsight."

Sneed was fired this week in advance of Sports Illustrated publishing an investigative story about a culture of misogyny and predatory sexual behavior within the Mavericks organization. Cuban said he was not aware of "gruesome details" of a 2011 domestic dispute that resulted in Sneed being arrested at the Mavericks' office until contacted by Sports Illustrated this week.

"I want to be clear, I'm not putting the blame on anybody else," Cuban told ESPN. "It came down to my final decision that I made."

In hindsight, Cuban said, "I would have fired him and still made him go to counseling" after learning details of the first domestic violence incident, expressing regret for not following up with police to discover those details.

Sports Illustrated, citing a Dallas police report, reported that Sneed's then-girlfriend suffered a fractured right wrist and bruises on her arms and chest in the altercation, which took place during the 2010-11 NBA season. Sneed, who fled the scene before the police arrived, was arrested two months later.

He pleaded guilty in June 2012 to misdemeanor charges of family violence assault and interference with emergency request. The charges were dismissed after Sneed paid a $750 fine and completed supervised community service and an anger management program.

"It was bad, but we made a mistake about the whole thing and didn't pursue what happened with the police after the fact," Cuban told ESPN. "So we got it mostly from Earl's perspective, and because we didn't dig in with the details -- and obviously it was a horrible mistake in hindsight -- we kind of, I don't want to say took his word for it, but we didn't see all the gruesome details until just recently. I didn't read the police report on that until just [Tuesday], and that was a huge mistake obviously."

Multiple sources told Sports Illustrated that Sneed was also involved in a domestic dispute in 2014 with a co-worker who was his live-in girlfriend. As SI reported, the woman's face was swollen when she went to work, and she reported the incident to her supervisor and to human resources director Buddy Pittman, who was suspended this week.

Cuban, who said he was rarely present at the Mavs' business office, accepts fault for the decision to keep Sneed on staff after that incident as well.

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he's to blame for the decision to keep team website reporter Earl K. Sneed on staff after two separate domestic violence incidents. "In hindsight it was a mistake," Cuban told ESPN. EPA/CJ Gunther

"So when the second time came around ... the way I looked at it was -- and, again, in hindsight it was a mistake -- but I didn't want to just fire him, because then he would go out there and get hired again and do it somewhere else," Cuban told ESPN. "That's what I was truly afraid of and that was the discussion we had internally. It was a choice between just firing him and making sure that we had control of him.

"So I made the decision, it was my decision and again, in hindsight, I would probably do it differently. I made the decision that we would make him go to domestic abuse counseling as a requirement to continued employment, that he was not allowed to be alone without a chaperone in the presence of any other women in the organization or any other women in a business setting at all, and he was not allowed to date anybody [who works for the Mavericks]. From that point on -- and the investigators are going to see if we missed anything else - he appeared to abide by all those rules, as far as I knew.

"So that was my decision. What I missed, and it was truly a f--- up on my part, because I was not there [at the Mavericks' office], I looked at everything anecdotally. My real f--- up was I didn't recognize the impact it would have on all the other employees. I looked at this as a one-off situation where, OK, if I don't do anything, this person could go out there and do damage on another women another time. Or do I say, can we get him counseling to try to prevent that from happening again? I thought I was doing the right thing at the time.

"What I missed, again, is I didn't realize the impact that it would have on the workplace and on the women that worked here and how it sent a message to them that, if it was OK for Earl to do that, who knows what else is OK in the workplace? I missed that completely. I missed it completely."

Sneed released a statement to The Dallas Morning News and ESPN on Tuesday night addressing the incidents and expressing gratitude to Cuban and Pittman.

"While both instances described in the report are damning and language used is not accurate, the two relationships described in the report are not something I am proud to have been a part of," Sneed wrote in a statement. "I underwent much counseling after both situations, under the direction of Buddy Pittman, and I feel like I grew from that counseling. I also signed a contract stating that I would not have one-on-one contact or fraternize with female employees after the inaccurately described incident with my female co-worker, who was a live-in girlfriend. I abided by the details of that contract for four years, and received counseling during that period to avoid future instances.

"I thank Buddy Pittman for helping me to grow during that time, and I thank Mark Cuban for his willingness to help facilitate that growth."

Cuban declined to comment on allegations of serial sexual harassment against former Mavericks president and CEO Terdema Ussery until the conclusion of an investigation that will be conducted by Krutoy Law, a New York-based firm led by Evan Krutoy, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office who had a stint as the acting bureau chief of the city's sex crimes unit. Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general whose law practice focuses on white collar crime and government investigations, will be the lead investigator in consultation with Krutoy Law.

A statement released by the Mavericks on Tuesday night stated that the team has "only learned of the scope of these complaints" against Ussery in recent days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35454463)



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: big marketing idea whorehouse

cuban's gotta go

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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:27 PM
Author: Trip Library Goyim

Dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35454474)



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: Pale rigor lettuce

Glad this is not forgotten, lmao.

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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:36 PM
Author: cracking fanboi



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:36 PM
Author: Khaki boistinker dingle berry



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: 180 gaped sneaky criminal liquid oxygen



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: Sepia heady affirmative action



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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:09 PM
Author: Trip Library Goyim



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 2:52 AM
Author: cracking fanboi



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Mood Heaven



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:44 PM
Author: zombie-like house-broken set psychic



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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:05 PM
Author: Balding dysfunction alpha



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 2:44 AM
Author: vivacious shaky home idea he suggested



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:20 AM
Author: blue frozen black woman bawdyhouse



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:36 PM
Author: seedy locale french chef

Lol @ metoo in pro sports

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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: carnelian mediation

This is Donald Sterling-level bad. Allowing your entire female staff to be harassed and abused for 18 years is indefensible and abhorrent. Mark Cuban should be banned from the NBA if there is any proof that he knew about this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35454568)



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:41 PM
Author: Sepia heady affirmative action



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Date: February 21st, 2018 5:06 PM
Author: wine razzle meetinghouse



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Date: February 21st, 2018 4:42 PM
Author: erotic point

Why should anyone like Sneed be fired for crimes completely unrelated to their job duties?

Libs are against anything making it hard for ex-cons to be hired, so why could any cons be fired?

Here, the crimianl penalty was minor: $750 and community service. Odd to fire him over that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35454589)



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Date: February 21st, 2018 6:04 PM
Author: wine razzle meetinghouse

#MavsToo

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: bespoke chapel

just to be that guy, were Ussery and Snead difficult to fire because they were useful in making the Maverick diverse?

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from a 1993 SI profile of Ussery:

Will Ussery be among the NBA's next call-ups? "Isn't that what the league's all about, to get to the next step?" says Utah Jazz president Frank Layden. "T is something special, and the next step would be a higher position in the major leagues. There are so few black men in executive positions. Now that we have a very bright black man in a key position in charge of a professional league, let's fight to get him up there." Up, and over the fence.

https://www.si.com/vault/1993/05/03/128532/in-a-league-of-his-own-cba-commissioner-terdema-ussery-ii-has-risen-from-the-back-streets-to-the-front-office

seems like he might have been a headache to try and get rid of

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: Bright piazza gaming laptop

I’m appalled by Mark Cuban’s blatant disregard for the victims of domestic violence. He protected a known woman-beater?

He’s absolutely gotta go.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35460365)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:26 AM
Author: dashing church

meanwhile the Carolina Panthers, about to be sold because their founding owner got #MeTooed, just rehired their former GM who was suspended due to a domestic violence allegation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35460377)



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 11:34 AM
Author: Talented startled center

I like Cuban a lot. But his explanation is tragically bad. "Sure, he abused someone a second time, and sure it was one of our own employees. But I didn't want to fire him because he'd get a job elsewhere and beat up people there, too. So I kept him on my staff to keep other people in his hypothetical future job safe, made him get counseling and told him not to talk to the women in our office." LOL, ok Mark!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3899704&forum_id=2#35460441)