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Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jacksonville Sharks hope to avenge early season loss against Quad City Steamwheelers
The Jacksonville Sharks will face the Quad City Steamwheelers this Saturday at the arena in the Shark Tank on Star Wars Night. The 7 p.m. kickoff features two of the best teams in the Indoor Football League and could go a long way in deciding the upcoming playoff race, Advertisement Quad City is currently atop the Eastern Division at 9-2 and has one of the toughest defenses in the league, allowing just 36.9 points per game. Jacksonville isn't far behind at 7-4, while giving up 38.5 points per game and ranking fifth in points allowed. Jacksonville gets a chance to avenge an early season loss on the road when they lost to Quad City 62-41. For an in-depth preview of the Saturday's game, watch this week's edition of Shark Bites. The Saturday matchup will also air on the Action Sports Jax 24/7 Network. All home games this season air on the network, the official streaming network of the Jacksonville Sharks. >>> STREAM ACTION SPORTS JAX 24/7 LIVE <<< Advertisement [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
The Independent
5 hours ago
- Business
- The Independent
Mark Cuban reveals why he turned down Kamala Harris's VP offer in 2024
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has revealed that Kamala Harris invited him to submit vetting materials in order to be considered as her running mate last year, but he declined. In an interview with The Bulwark 's Tim Miller on Thursday, the host asked the former Shark Tank reality TV personality about rumors linking him to the failed Harris campaign. 'There was some green room gossip at MSNBC,' Miller said. 'You ready for this? You ready? I wouldn't tell you this if it wasn't pretty good. Somebody I kind of trust said that they asked you to send in VP vetting papers and you said, 'No, the list would be too long.' Is that true?' 'It is true,' replied Cuban, who once supported Donald Trump but remained a prominent Harris supporter throughout the 2024 campaign while denying harboring any ambition to serve in her cabinet should she win. 'Why didn't you consider, I mean, you ended up there campaigning with her, advising her,' Miller asked. The Dallas Mavericks owner replied: 'The second part of that, my response was I'm not very good as the number two person. And so if the last thing we need is me telling Kamala, you know, the president that, no, that's a dumb idea. Right. And I'm not real good at the shaking hands and kissing babies.' Harris ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential nominee from a final three that also included Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Walz initially enjoyed success with his attack on Trump and JD Vance, labeling them as 'weird,' and offering a friendly, folksy, blue-collar alternative that ultimately proved insufficiently appealing to prevent a Republican win. Miller told Cuban that he had sold himself short with that negative assessment of his own qualities. 'I don't know about that. I mean, I was talking to Pete Buttigieg a couple of weeks ago and I was like… I want to, you know, give you a time machine. We're going to go back in a DeLorean. Like, what can we do different?' he said. 'So I want to ask you that same question, but also in the context, like if it was you instead of Tim Walz, who the hell knows? I don't know. It feels maybe different. It feels maybe different.' Cuban responded: 'I mean, obviously it would have been different. My personality is completely different than Tim's. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. I think I've cut through the s*** more directly. I'm not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been awful. 'She would have fired me within six days!' he joked. 'It would have been better than the present situation, you know?' Miller insisted. 'Well, yes, that's true. But, you know, I really thought she was going to win,' Cuban answered. The interviewer concluded: 'Here's why I want to pick on that. And I know you don't want the clip here. You're like, 'We would have won if Mark Cuban was VP.' And I get that. I don't even know if I believe that, but maybe. 'I think it would have been meaningfully different in a way that like picking Josh Shapiro or whatever wouldn't have been meaningfully different in a way that's kind of hard to predict.'
Mercury
6 hours ago
- Business
- Mercury
Barbara Corcoran reveals her controversial moves to boost career - realestate.com.au
A real estate mogul has revealed the controversial steps she took to boost her career and did several 'unhinged things' to make a name for herself. Barbara Corcoran took to TikTok to lift the lid on the ways she attempted to boost her real estate company, The Corcoran Group — which was founded in 1973 — in its earliest days, Realtor reports. The 76-year-old 'Shark Tank' star posted a series of throwback photos from the earliest days in her real estate career, which she launched in New York City. Noting that her business was the 'first brokerage on the internet,' Ms Corcoran explained that she took to tracking the prospective URLs of her competitors so she could see who joined the web behind her. 'When I was the first brokerage on the internet, I registered my competitors' URLs so I could keep track of when everyone else woke up,' she shared, adding: 'The big guys came calling last.' Ms Corcoran then revealed that she came up with a genius idea to use a market crash to her advantage by essentially conducting a real estate fire sale, one that ultimately netted her an incredible profit. '[I] priced 88 apartments alike during a market crash and sold out within an hour. I made $US1 million commission in a single day,' she added. MORE: Bombers star finalises new $2m+ deal Where Aus tenants pay the most Developer's bold plan for $50m Melbourne site Corcoran has confessed that she went to extreme lengths while finding her footing in the homing industry and did several 'unhinged things' to make a name for herself. Picture: The 76-year-old 'Shark Tank' star took to TikTok to lift the lid on the ways she attempted to grow her brand and real estate company. Picture: The entrepreneur also confessed that she had to bet on herself and aim high — even at the beginning of her career — noting that, to a certain extent, she had to fake it until she made it, at least where her status within the industry was concerned. To that end, the 'Shark Tank' investor wrote her own self-titled industry analysis, called The Corcoran Report, which she first published during a recession, relying solely on data from her own sales in order to offer a market evaluation. '[I] wrote The Corcoran Report, declaring that NYC prices hit an all-time low, based only on my 14 sales for the year,' she confessed in the TikTok video. Despite the lack of data in the report, her strategy worked, with Ms Corcoran revealing in a previous LinkedIn post that she was stunned to find herself quoted in a New York Times piece just days after she'd published it. 'They quoted my report, and I couldn't believe my eyes!' she recalled. 'And right after that, our phones never stopped ringing. It immediately put us on the map. I could hear my salespeople answer the phones and say, 'Oh, you've heard of us?!' 'I was still the same small company I was the week before, but I now had the power of the press behind me, and everyone treated us differently.' But still, Ms Corcoran didn't stop her efforts to woo more clients — as well as their pets. In fact, the industry expert shared that she even drew in new customers by appealing to pet owners and acting as both a real estate mogul and dog trainer. 'When the co-op board revealed they would start interviewing dogs, I taught dogs how to shake hands in Central Park,' she said. And she didn't just drive business by training dogs, she also 'took a job as a messenger delivering packages at night to help make ends meet.' Alongside a slew of throwback pictures from the early days of her stellar career, the home pro revealed that she had to think outside of the box. Picture: At the time, the real estate tycoon began by registering and tracking her competitors' URLs. Picture: Unlike many other businesses at the time, Ms Corcoran used the press to her advantage and even invited them to 'open the elusive safe in the Guggenheim mansion without knowing what was inside.' She revealed the safe ended up being 'empty.' And she even dressed up to draw attention. 'I threw a company party where everyone dressed as nuns. It was a riot,' she said alongside a snap of members of the real estate company dressed up. In addition to pretending it was Halloween, Ms Corcoran revealed she also recruited the help of farm animals to make sales. 'I put real cows on the penthouse roof to help sell Stewart Mott's overpriced apartment and got major press for it. (Yes, Mott of the applesauce empire),' she revealed. Lastly, to establish herself in the celebrity home market, Ms Corcoran threw out an A-lister's name — who wasn't her client — and flew to success. 'I published the Madonna report based on what I imagined Madonna would want in a home,' the 76-year-old said. 'The media went wild and started calling me the 'broker to the stars.' She wasn't even my client.' Corcoran then revealed that she came up with a genius idea to use the market crash to her advantage, allowing her to cash in big time. Picture: And she even dressed up to draw attention. Picture: Corcoran previously showed off her $US12 million New York City penthouse for the last time after she offloaded the property. Picture: calebwsimpson/TikTok Just days before she candidly revealed her 'unhinged' behaviour, Ms Corcoran welcomed Caleb Simpson, the TikTok star-turned-real estate influencer, into her NYC dwelling for one last time. She offers an intimate glimpse of the property's most impressive amenities, including jaw-dropping views of Manhattan's iconic skyline. In Simpson's viral video, Ms Corcoran joked that even her most dedicated followers likely wouldn't have 'recognised' the pad when it was first listed, because she had removed all of her possessions in order to stage it for sale. Though she seemed firm in her decision to offload the abode — which she first came across in 1992, 23 years before she bought it in 2015 — she confessed that she 'can't believe' she's bidding farewell to the home after so many years. Ms Corcoran first came across the penthouse dwelling on the Upper East Side in 1992 when she was working as a messenger to make ends meet and delivered a letter to the unit's resident. At the time, the opulent home wasn't on the market — nor would it have been anywhere close to fitting within Corcoran's budget if it had been. Yet, she couldn't get the property out of her mind. 'I thought, 'My God, I've never seen anything as beautiful in my life,'' she told the New York Times. So, she asked the then-owner to get in touch if she ever decided to sell her penthouse — a decision that she ended up making more than two decades later. Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and was republished with permission. Sign up to the Herald Sun Weekly Real Estate Update. Click here to get the latest Victorian property market news delivered direct to your inbox. MORE: Huge star slams 'violent' Trump after quitting US 'Wrong side': Ellen loses $8m+ overnight 'Gone, everything': Gibson on trashed pad
New York Post
10 hours ago
- Business
- New York Post
Mark Cuban reveals Kamala Harris considered him as a potential VP — but turned her down
Mark Cuban revealed that former Vice President Kamala Harris had considered him as a potential running mate in her bid for the White House last year – but he turned her down. The billionaire entrepreneur, who served as a high-profile surrogate for Harris's failed campaign, made the shocking admission in a sneak preview of 'The Bulwark' podcast after host Tim Miller pressed him about 'some green room gossip at MSNBC' related to the request. The former 'Shark Tank' judge said the Democrat's team had reached out to ask him to submit vetting materials – but he felt a review of his extensive background would be a waste of time. 4 Mark Cuban made the shocking admission in a sneak preview of 'The Bulwark' podcast. The Bulwark 'My response was I'm not very good as the number two person,' Cuban told Miller in a clip of Friday's episode. 'And so if the last thing we need is me telling Kamala, you know, the president that, no, that's a dumb idea. And I'm not real good at the shaking hands and kissing babies.' 4 Kamala Harris ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to join her losing ticket. AFP via Getty Images Miller responded by telling the Dallas Mavericks minority owner that he may have been a bigger – and 'meaningfully different' – asset to Harris's campaign than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who she ultimately chose to join her losing ticket. 'I mean, obviously it would have been different,' Cuban said, noting that he's not a politician. 'My personality is completely different than Tim's. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. I think I've cut through the sh–t more directly. I'm not a politician. And so, it would have been different, but it would have been awful.' 4 Host Tim Miller pressed Cuban about some gossip he had heard at MSNBC related to the request. The Bulwark The businessman joked that Harris probably would have fired him within six days. Miller pushed back, saying that Cuban joining the presidential ticket would have been 'better than the present situation,' referring to President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who overwhelmingly won the election last November. 4 The former 'Shark Tank' judge said the Democrat's team had reached out to ask him to submit vetting materials. Getty Images 'Well, yea, that's true. But, you know, I really thought she was going to win,' Cuban replied. Cuban actively campaigned for Harris on the trail, even facing some backlash after claiming Trump does not surround himself with 'strong, intelligent women' during an appearance on 'The View.' He immediately regretted his careless remarks and tried to clear them up — later congratulating the commander in chief for winning the election 'fair and square.'
Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
NBA team owner Mark Cuban reveals he rejected stunning offer from Kamala Harris ahead of election loss to Trump
NBA team minority owner Mark Cuban has revealed that Kamala Harris ' ticket for last November's election could have looked very different. The former Shark Tank personality, who owns a 27 percent stake in the Dallas Mavericks, has shared that the former Vice President had reached out to him amid last year's Race to the White House. The 66-year-old claimed that Harris' team had asked him to submit vetting materials to be considered for her running mate in the 2024 campaign. But Cuban, despite being outspoken in his opposition of Donald Trump, surprisingly turned the Democratic hopeful down. The Bulwark's Tim Miller quizzed Cuban on the rumor Thursday, asking: 'Somebody I kind of trust said that they asked you to send in VP vetting papers and you said, "No, the list would be too long." Is that true?' Cuban, who campaigned for Harris, admitted that it was before going on to explain why he passed over the offer. Talked to @mcuban for tomorrow's pod and he tells me he declined an offer to be vetted for Kamala VP. What might have been! We also discuss the fallout of his decision to sell the Mavs but gotta wait til tomorrow for that. — Tim Miller (@Timodc) June 20, 2025 'The second part of that, my response was I'm not very good as the number two person. And so if the last thing we need is me telling Kamala, you know, the president that, no, that's a dumb idea. Right. And I'm not real good at the shaking hands and kissing babies,' Cuban added. Harris ultimately selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate but was defeated at the ballot box by Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 'I mean, obviously it would have been different,' Cuban added. 'My personality is completely different than Tim's. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. 'I think I've cut through the s*** more directly. I'm not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been awful,' Cuban joked, 'She would have fired me within six days.' 'It would have been better than the present situation, you know?' Miller retorted. 'Well, yes, that's true. But, you know, I really thought she was going to win,' Cuban replied. Cuban hit out at Trump in the build up to last year's election, taking aim at the president's golf game in an email to 'I can out drive him by 100 yards,' the 66-year-old Cuban wrote of the 78-year-old Trump in an email to It came after Trump had bizarrely claimed that Cuban has 'really low clubhead speed' and is 'a total non-athlete.' Typically Cuban has attacked Trump's business acumen, understanding of tariffs, and his failure to hold his 2016 campaign promise of building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it. 'This man has so little understanding of tariffs, he thinks that China pays for that. This is the same guy who also thought that Mexico would pay for the wall,' Cuban told an audience in the battleground state of Wisconsin. 'Did Mexico pay for that wall?,' Cuban asked the crowd, who responded, 'no.' In addition to his bitter tiff with the president over their golf games last October, Cuban has been highly critical of Trump. The entrepreneur campaigned for Harris in the buildup to her ultimate defeat at the ballot box last November and took aim at Trump's inner circle. 'Donald Trump – you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It's just that simple,' Cuban said on The View last November. 'It's just that simple. They're intimidating to him. He doesn't like to be challenged by them,' Cuban added. Trump's national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the comments were 'extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are proudly voting for him.' Cuban later apologized, saying he 'didn't get it out exactly the way I thought I did.' In August of last year, the wealthy 'shark' made it clear that his support had shifted from Trump to Harris after 'he got to know him,' according to Business Insider. 'I actually started off supporting Donald, and then I got to know him better,' Cuban told Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, during an interview last year. 'I was like, he's great - he's not a typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive,' he added. 'But then I got to know him.' However, he was one of the first members of Camp Kamala to publicly concede defeat on election night, sending a message of congratulations to Trump The businessman sold a majority ownership of the Mavericks for $3.5 billion to the Adelson family in December 2023. Cuban still holds a 27 percent stake in the team.
