Philip Anschutz

This Billionaire Is Ready To Buy LA A Football Team

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.03.2012

Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz is willing to write a check to buy Los Angeles an NFL team and build a downtown football stadium, according to what...

PHOTOS: The Six Richest People In Colo., According To Forbes

Posted 03.07.2012

Forbes has been making lists of the world's richest people for more than 25 years. On this latest list, "The World's Billionaries," Forbes has ran...

PHOTOS: Coloradans Who Made The 400 Billionaires List

Posted 11.26.2011

For the first time in the list's nearly 30 year history, all 400 people listed on the Forbes 400 list are billionaires making a cumulative sum about e...

Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.24.2011

Jonathan Weiler

Owners in all of the major sports have shown an unwavering desire to make as much money as possible precisely by taking advantage of the fact that sports are not ordinary businesses.

In the Chemo Room: A Guinea Pig

Robert Schwab | Posted 10.01.2011

Robert Schwab

Never did I imagine I would be walking through the Phil Anschutz-funded doors of the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora volunteering to be a guinea pig for cancer research. But that's what I did.

Taxpayers On The Hook?

Bloomberg | Christopher Palmeri and Andy Fixmer | Posted 05.30.2011

Billionaire Philip Anschutz's plan to build a football stadium and convention-center addition in downtown Los Angeles offers the city a financial guar...

Education 'Reformer' May Have Been Caught Cheating

Wade Norris | Posted 05.30.2011

Wade Norris

A 'reformer' who was on a rising path in Washington political circles has near-to-impossible turnaround scores in schools to bolster her resume.

Mountain States Legal Foundation's Motives In Vote Case Questioned By Wyoming Native Americans

AP | BEN NEARY | Posted 05.25.2011

WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Wyo. — The Mountain States Legal Foundation has built a reputation as an influential behind-the-scenes player ove...

LA Bound?: Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Chargers

The Informer | Posted 05.25.2011

Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring...

Phillip Anschutz Gets 'Biggest Payday Of His Life'

Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

Philip Anschutz has reason to shout. His holding company has just sold its oil and gas fields in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and the Bakken Sh...

Examiner.com is World's Largest 'News' Organization...67,000 Writers Under Contract in the U.S. -- Inks Content Deal with Reuters

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Plesser

While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world's largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amo...

The True Heroes of Narnia

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Joseph

Both the Narnia stories and the attempts to bring them to the big screen have their share of villains. They also have heroes. The story of the journey to the big screen will always have at least two heroes in Douglas Gresham and Philip Anschutz.

Waiting for "Superman" Is a Home Run Documentary

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Diane Francis

By fairly depicting public education as the country's biggest competitive disadvantage, Davis Guggenheim has made the most important American documentary in years.

PHOTOS: The Wealthiest Coloradans On Forbes's 'Richest People' List

Posted 05.25.2011

Forbes unveiled its annual ranking of the 400 wealthiest Americans this week, and the list is peppered with communications, sports, and cheese barons ...

Changing Politics as Usual: Why We Need Andrew Romanoff, the Grassroots Choice

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Michele Swenson

Obama supporters are being told that they should support the "president's choice" for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat, and that it is good that Bennet collects huge sums of corporate money.

What Did Senator Bennet Know and What Was His Involvement?

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Wade Norris

If you are tired of candidates bankrolled by special interests and play-to-pay politics, consider supporting the grassroots and people powered candidate in this primary, Andrew Romanoff.

Michael bennet's Phil Anschutz Connections Paying Off With Conservative Associates

The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Bennet's Wall Street Ties Bring Him Money, Criticism

The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...

Most Influential Coloradans Of The '00s (VOTE)

Posted 05.25.2011

Colorado has undoubtedly seen its profile raised during the '00s, culminating in the Democratic Convention in 2008. As Colorado has become a place of...

Jane Norton Campaign Finance Report Boasts Impressive List Of National Republicans

Posted 05.25.2011

Despite only being in the race for less than a month, Republican Senatorial Candidate and former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton raised over half a mi...

Forbes' Annual Richest People List Includes 6 Coloradans

Posted 05.25.2011

Forbes released its annual list of the country's wealthiest people on Thursday. There were 6 Coloradans on the list, headed for the first time by inv...

Philip Anschutz, New Weekly Standard Owner, Brings New Brand Of Conservatism To Magazine

New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 05.25.2011

The new ownership comes at a time when conservatism, especially the version espoused by The Standard involving American muscularity to spread freedom ...

Conservative Media vs. Progressive Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Cenk Uygur

Do you know how many people read The Weekly Standard? 80,000. To put it bluntly, that's pathetic. Its main purpose is to spread Republican propaganda in the guise of news.

Philip Anschutz "The Stealth Media Mogul": Forbes

Forbes | Steve Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

Billionaire Philip Anschutz is quietly building a small empire of social-networking sites, newspapers and now a leading conservative weekly. ...

News Corp Near Deal To Sell Weekly Standard To Philip Anschutz: Report

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

News Corp. is near a deal to sell its right-wing political magazine, the Weekly Standard, to conservative media mogul Philip Anschutz, according to pe...