Paul Allen

The Orlando Magic and Otis Smith, the team’s president of basketball operations and general manager, have parted ways. The Magic historically have promoted from within, elevating John Weisbrod to the general manager’s job in March 2004 and...

LOS ANGELES -- Upending one of the world's most successful business strategies over the past three decades, Microsoft has developed a Windows tablet computer of its own design. The company on Monday unveiled the Surface, a PC tablet that runs a yet-to-be...

Music industry mogul Irving Azoff has sold his house along Malibu's "Billionaire's Beach" for $10 million. The buyer is attorney Stuart Liner and his wife, Stephanie. The stretch of beach got the nickname from its wealthy neighbors, including David...

Nike, the new supplier of the NFL, came out Tuesday morning to show off redesigned uniforms for the 2012 season. Nike is taking over as the official supplier after Reebok’s 10-year deal with the league expired. The Seattle Seahawks, along with all...

There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to "Next-Worst Thing" to "Next-to-Next Worst Thing" and on down...

We start by putting our Bud Light Spotlight with a New Year’s Day cliché: Out with the old. In with the new. As a person, I liked Nick Holt. But his results were the worst in school history. Dissenters, including myself, thought he’d get...

It was an arena proposal that seemed like a slam dunk on Thursday, and now looks as sure as a first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets – a couple City Council members mockingly wagging their fingers like Dikembe Mutombo, as if to say...

77th Seattle Sports Star of the Year Award Winners: Professional Sports Star of the Year: Kasey Keller, Sounders FC Male Sports Star: Chris Polk, UW Female Sports Star: Courtney Vandersloot Sports Story: 2010 Eastern Washington National Champion...

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The leaders of Seattle and King County on Thursday unveiled an investor's proposal to build a $500 million NBA and NHL arena in Seattle that would be financed mostly by an investment group and with no new public taxes. "This proposal we've received is...

What would Seattle residents be willing to pay for NFL quarterback Peyton Manning to play for the Seahawks? Or team owner Paul Allen? In this video piece, people on Seattle's streets give their whimsical responses and then there is a more serious look at...

Paul Allen Harris, beloved husband, father, son and brother, died November 23, 2011 of multiple illnesses.  Born May 18, 1953 at Weaverville, California, he arrived in Orange with his parents and older brother before his first birthday and lived the...