As if the NBA playoffs and lead-up to the June 28 draft weren't enough to keep hoops fans satiated this time of year, there's a number of personnel positions in play that are worth monitoring.
The Portland Trail Blazers' year-long search for a new general manager has continued in earnest, as sources said owner Paul Allen met with former Hornets general manager Jeff Bower last week and Pacers general manager David Morway will meet with team officials on Wednesday.
The Trail Blazers' general manager position has been vacant nearly a year now, dating back to the unexpected firing of Rich Cho, who's now in Charlotte. But sources close to the situation told SI.com that the search for a new GM is likely to heat up soon, and it presents as good an excuse as any to take a break from the playoff action and analyze a number of front office situations around the league.
With a coal-fired power plant in the background, an environmental group released a report Tuesday disputing any link between tighter anti-pollution laws and a loss of jobs.
The Google+ social network has topped 60 million users, according to Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who also made the bold prediction late Tuesday that Google+ would reach 400 million users by the end of 2012.
Paul Allen, a Google+ watcher whose estimates about the social network's growth have proved accurate in the past, claims that the site now has 62 million users and is adding 625,000 new users per day.
Did Portland owner Paul Allen not enjoy the company of GM Rich Cho as they sat together during Trail Blazers games?
Interstellar radio has lost one of its most avid listeners.
The United States must do a better job of educating its young people in science and technology if we're going to compete with China and India over the next century, according to Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and an American computer pioneer.
A fan recently summed up his feelings about NFL arenas in a blog post: Religions have their churches, and sports teams have their stadiums.
Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple and Google, plus nine other companies, for patent infringement.
From a Hollywood film producer known for getting us hooked on the 'light saber' to top scientists, financiers and corporate CEOs, more of America's super rich are rising to a $600 billion challenge: Pledge at least 50% of your net worth to charity during your lifetime or at death.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has pledged to give away most of his fortune to charity.
• DeMarcus Cousins. That a potentially dominant 6-foot-11, 292-pound center who averaged 15.1 points, 9.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 23.5 minutes last season -- gigantic production in short minutes while sharing the ball with four fellow first-rounders at Kentucky -- would go No. 5 in the draft is proof of how the NBA has veered away from traditional big men.
If Pete Carroll takes the Seattle Seahawks head coaching job, he will not have the final say on all football matters that he is seeking, according to one person who has spoken with team CEO Tod Leiweke.
Jim Mora's undoing in Seattle had everything to do with December.
Greg Oden hasn't given up on returning this season, the injured Trail Blazers center told SI.com Thursday.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 25 years after he was treated for Hodgkin's disease, a spokesman at his company Vulcan Inc. told CNN on Monday.
In the early days of Microsoft's success, when my son's name was starting to become known to the world at large, everybody from reporters at Fortune to the checkout person at the local grocery store would ask me, "How do you raise a kid like that? What's the secret?" At those moments I was generally thinking to myself, "Oh, it's a secret all right ... because I don't get it either!"
Charter Communications, a provider of cable TV, Internet and other broadband services, said on Thursday that it will file for bankruptcy, as part of a "financial restructuring."
The film festival is "always a good time," the pregnant Jolie tells PEOPLE
They enjoy a helicopter ride in the south of France, then drop by Bono's villa
The couple and their (soon-to-grow) brood are expected to stay at least through the Cannes festival
In the moments before kickoff, some players listen to metal and some listen to rap. Some talk to God and some talk to themselves.
It was only a preseason game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle SuperSonics. But the doughy Blazers fan in the catacombs of the Rose Garden was walking excitedly toward the courtside entrance. Though he was a couple of months from turning 55, he resembled nothing so much as an awestruck boy lucky enough to have scored sweet seats to his first game. Wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a tight-fitting blue corduroy jacket, black slacks and black loafers, he smiled as he made his way out of the tunnel. When he shuffled past the Blazers' bench three minutes into the first quarter, he stared for several seconds at the tall men before settling into his front-row seat behind the baseline.
SI.com caught up with senior writer Jon Wertheim to talk about his recent story on Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen.
The two Web multimillionaires had never crossed paths, but when Russell C. Horowitz and Frank Schilling finally met to talk business three years ago, the summit began in style - sipping soft drinks poolside at the Four Seasons Las Vegas and chatting about private jets.
Charter Communications chairman and controlling shareholder Paul Allen said he's considering buying the remaining outstanding stock in the troubled cable company, according to a report Wednesday.
In the world of 150-foot yachts, private helicopters and lightening fast speedboats, there is a new toy so exclusive that buyers are actually invoking non-disclosure agreements.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Portland Trail Blazers promoted Kevin Pritchard to their vacant general manager job Thursday, as reported earlier by SI.com's Ian Thomsen.
Also in this column: • Is this Riley's swan song? • Injuries take toll on guards • Nets face busy summer
Sometimes the rich are a little different.
Everywhere you look these days, tech and business world luminaries - like Richard Branson, Paul Allen, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr, and Bill Gates - are laying down big bets on ethanol, a substitute for gasoline that's already finding its way into pumps.
By now you'll know whether Elon Musk is the latest hero of the high frontier or still just the co-founder of PayPal. On Feb. 10, the day after this magazine went to press, Musk's latest company -- ...
Officials in some states are considering caps to control increased electric rates, according to a published report.
The Sporting News, which is owned by investor Paul Allen, is up for sale, the company announced Tuesday, citing what it says is "unsolicited interest" in the nation's oldest sporting publication.
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Imagine yourself cruising the high seas in a lavish, super-secret ocean-faring vessel complete with a remote controlled undersea rover, a 12-man submersible and a personal crew of 60, including several former Navy Seals and a recording studio.
Forget the Russians and the Americans. The new space race is between the guys from Virgin Atlantic, Amazon.com, and PayPal.
FLIGHT SCHOOL IS A SPINOFF OF PC FORUM, A CONFAB RUN BY TECH EMINENCE ESTHER DYSON. ESTHER DECLARES THAT OPENING SPACE TO HUMAN COMMERCE SHOULD UNLEASH ENERGY LIKE NOTHING SINCE THE ADVENT OF THE I...
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IT'S BEEN ONLY A FEW WEEKS SINCE Paul Allen and Burt Rutan took one giant step for space tourism and won the $10 million Ansari X Prize after sending a manned vehicle called SpaceShipOne into subor...
After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
A Californian-based team will this week launch its bid to claim a $10 million prize by putting a privately financed manned craft into sub-orbital space.
British entrepreneur Richard Branson has announced his company has signed a deal to offer the world's first commercial flights to space under the branding "Virgin Galactic."
On the morning of June 21, space entrepreneur Jim Benson stood on the tarmac at Mojave Airport and wept. An announcer had just interrupted the pounding rock music on the sound system to relay a mes...
Jim Benson isn't the only computer entrepreneur to found a space company. Meet four other techies who have succumbed to the lure of the final frontier.
A piloted rocket ship race to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up.
While all eyes have been on billionaire Paul Allen's adventures in space--the Microsoft co-founder recently spent more than $20 million launching a manned spaceship from the Mojave Desert--he's qui...
If all goes well over the California desert Monday morning, Michael Melvill, 62, a veteran test pilot, will become the first civilian flier to earn his astronaut's wings aboard a privately financed spacecraft.
When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled into Cannes in mid-May, people couldn't help but gawk at his newest toy. Completed late last year, the 414-foot-long Octopus is the largest private yacht...
The world's first privately built spacecraft is scheduled to leave Earth on June 21 and -- if successful -- usher in a new era of spaceflight for private enterprise.
A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to become the world's first commercial manned space vehicle.
An attempt to have the first privately-financed manned space flight is set for June 21, backers of the effort announced Tuesday.
The ultimate thrill ride could be closer to reality.
Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder and cable entrepreneur, may be worth $20 billion, but he just can't keep his investments healthy (consider troubled Charter Communications). The latest to suffe...
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Who doesn't fantasize about island living? Pristine beaches, perfect sunsets...oh, and hordes of summer renters, celebrity-wranglers, million-dollar inland lots, and other perks of living in a "dis...
When the Vancouver Grizzlies announced they were looking for a new home, Tricon Foods and the city of Louisville offered the owner $100 million to change the team's name to the Kentucky Colonels an...
In the green room of Trackers, a television show you've probably never heard of, Richie Mills, the drummer of Sunna, a band you've probably never heard of, tells me he's never heard of Oxygen Media...
You may think you've heard all the crazy-quilt news there could possibly be about Priceline.com: weakness in its core business of selling airline tickets; the demise of its grocery- and gasoline-se...
Charity. Philanthropy. Noblesse oblige. Giving back. You can feel the difference. The first three phrases are rooted in old European traditions: wealthy folks, from the privacy of their estates, gi...
From Interstate 5, two miles away, it looks like a puddle of metal, or maybe a crashed and melted space shuttle later attacked by graffitists. But after creeping through traffic in a nondescript Se...
We are coasting through the upper reaches of the night, somewhere between Milwaukee and Chicago, nestled in the cockpit of Vern Raburn's 1979 Turbo Commander. Dispatches from air traffic control mu...
I was really sorry to see that Paul Allen closed his Interval Research lab in Palo Alto. Paul is a nice guy who continues to do interesting things--it is amazing what you can do when you have $20 b...
Paul Allen recently figured out the easy way to assemble the nation's fourth-largest cable television operation almost overnight: Simply add cash, and lots of it. To be exact, he spent $6.3 billion...
Reading to your kids is always rewarding. First the cuddles, later the stars on the report card. But the discerning grownup sitting in the rocking chair can also revel in some terrific artwork.
To select one man to be the Businessman of the Century is to look back upon almost unimaginable change. The world of Henry Ford (the earliest of the final four contending for the honor) and the wor...
Frank McNamara
Next time you find yourself before your PC waiting for a Microsoft Word file to print, here's a neat little trick. Highlight some text, click the thesaurus tool, and see what you get. The results c...
Sometime in the next couple of years, selling music over the Internet--mostly in the form of CDs--may become a profitable business. Getting from here to there, however, is going to be tricky. More ...
The auto world barely blinked when brothers Ben and Harold Rosen gave up on their Buck Rogers-ish turbine-flywheel electric engine ("Gentlemen, Start Your Engine," Sept. 30, 1996). Although the Ros...
FREEING A MICROSOFT SLAVE
On a stretch of lakefront ten miles southeast of downtown Seattle sits the Barbee lumber mill. Family-owned for three generations, the Barbee is the only working sawmill left in the greater Seattle...
Is Paul Allen, America's third-richest man, a good businessman, or just unbelievably lucky--the Ringo Starr of high tech? Allen's two monetary betters, Warren Buffett and sometime partner Bill Gate...
Let's face it. Not many CEOs make news--much less grace magazine covers--after they retire. But then Lee Iacocca has always been one for racing down roads not taken. So it didn't entirely come as a...
They're just a couple of slightly geeky middle-aged guys sitting on a patio overlooking Seattle's Lake Washington on a balmy Sunday afternoon. Jet skis and speedboats drone like cicadas as the old ...
The combination of Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen might well be the greatest collection of talent since Jordan, Johnson, and Bird hit the hardwood together in the 1992 Olympics, but investors in...
WHAT LOOK LIKE madcap frolics on these pages actually represent some pretty serious research. With the help of a hefty complement of eminent software developers and electrical engineers, some of th...
PAUL ALLEN gets up and leads the way out of his 20-seat movie theater, past the candy and popcorn, and into the basement bunker that serves as the control center of his home cable system. Here, he ...
The very, very rich will never be quite like you and me, but at least the gap isn't growing so fast. The average entrant on FORTUNE's fourth annual listing of the world's billionaires has about $2....
Few people remember that billionaire Bill Gates had a partner when he launched Microsoft in 1975. Paul Allen, a buddy from Lakeside School, a Seattle prep, pointed out to ninth-grader Gates that mi...
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