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...complaint about the hot dogs at Mavs games, the next negotiating an expansion of HDNet. Says Terdema Ussery, CEO of the Mavericks and HDNet: "When he first came, Mark used to say people have to decide if they can stay on this train because it moves very fast." Phil Garvin, COO of HDNet, says he enjoys working for Cuban because "he never fails to take the risky course." Stephanie Campbell, senior vice president for programming at DirecTV, came away respecting Cuban after negotiating the HDNet deal. "If there's a bit of hyperbole there, it's healthy," she says. "Mark...
Thompson introduced Cuban to a Fox production specialist, Phil Garvin, who helped him solve the technical and financial obstacles to HDTV broadcasting. "With regular TV, you pull a truck up to a stadium, hook up to existing cables from every camera to the truck outside and transmit," he says. "But there were no cables for high def, and the setup was expensive." Sony had to create a new cable system for the five HD cameras needed for each game. By piggybacking on FoxSports' regular NHL broadcasts and using its graphics and audio, Garvin and Cuban got the network running...
...recognition as a tribe at a California G.O.P. meeting attended by Wayne Smith, the No. 2 man at the BIA. Amelia gave Smith her business card and said she would like to discuss Chinook issues with him. Two weeks later, she got a phone call from a man named Phil Bersinger. Identifying himself as a close friend and former business partner of Smith's, he said that for a fee he could influence decisions at the BIA. When Amelia asked how he had got her name, she says Bersinger replied, "You gave Wayne Smith your card, didn...
...Phil Messina stood in the aisle of a makeshift airplane cabin set up in a hotel conference room and pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with...
...Phil C. Ballinger ’04, who after a summer editing Let’s Go spends all his free time soliciting female patrons of the Wrap, has started noticing some peculiar correspondences between the women he picks up there and the establishment’s food. “Both the chicks and the burritos are hot in some places and disturbingly cold in others,” he complains. “Furthermore, there are some spots that are bone-dry and others that are oddly soggy?...