Carl Icahn's slate of replacement directors for Yahoo's board is a list of head-scratchers, except for one name. That's Mark Cuban, the guy who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1998 and used the money to buy the Dallas Mavericks. "Talk about biting the hand that feeds," writes VC blogger Fred Wilson. "It's a downright hostile move for Cuban." Actually, hedging his Yahoo shares so he kept his fortune while founder Jerry Yang's cratered in the dotcom bust — that was hostile. Think Yang doesn't remember that? (Photo by eschipul)

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