Mark Cuban's ill-advised gay joke edited out of Bill Simmons' podcast by ESPN

What do you get when you combine Mark Cuban, Bill Simmons, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, a poorly-conceived gay joke and ESPN's editing practices? A controversy! We apologize for the quality of the preceding statement disguised as a joke, but it's still funnier than the one Cuban actually uttered during the conference's final panel, billed as a "Live B.S. Report: Cuban one-on-one with Simmons" and sponsored by Grantland. Cuban responded to some comments by Simmons about both he and his daughter liking the Kiss Cam with "That's because you and your boyfriend are always on it." (If you're completely unfamiliar with Simmons, well, you're probably not reading this site, but for the record, he's married to a woman.) Cuban quickly tried to backtrack with ""Or his girlfriend, this is gender-independent commentary," but as Yahoo!'s Dan Devine pointed out, it really isn't. However, Cuban has since offered ...