Tod Leiweke, chief executive officer of Vulcan Sports & Entertainment, has made it official: Mike Golub, the Blazers? vice president of business operations, will not be the team?s new president. Leiweke told the Portland Business Journal this week he will go outside the organization to hire Steve Patterson?s successor.

Blazer sources tell the Portland Tribune that they will be ?shocked? if Kevin Pritchard, the team?s director of player personnel, isn?t hired as general manager.