Empty their checkbooks and strip away their holdings, and Dallas' two most visible sports owners wouldn't share much in common.

Sure enough, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban sat together Friday afternoon, epitomes of their disparate images: Jones, a blue-suited hybrid of spit-polished CEO and twangy football man; Cuban, a churning ball of new-day ideas in jeans and Nike high tops.

But a substantial gathering of the nation's sports editors discovered that the heavyweight owners shared plenty of common ground when it comes to vital media conduits.

Jones and Cuban were keynote panelists for the Associated Press Sports Editors Convention at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas.