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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers There aren’t often must-watch U.S. Open Cup games involving two MLS teams, but tonight’s clash in Los Angeles between LAFC and the Portland Timbers is going to be an exception: one featuring two of the country’s best teams, who happen to despise each other, both fully focused on securing a spot in […]

Portland Timbers On the day that the U.S. women’s national team won its second straight World Cup, one of the most extraordinary streaks in American sports came to an end: the Portland Timbers finally, after nearly four years and 26 attempts, won an MLS game without Diego Chara in the starting lineup. Chara did feature […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers In the midst of a huge Sunday for soccer in the U.S., the Portland Timbers will embark on another frenzied stretch of their 2019 schedule with a trip with to Yankee Stadium face MLS’s hottest team: New York City FC (3:30 p.m., TV on Fox Sports 1). The Opponent After Patrick Vieira […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Sunday night was, in a number of ways, another success for the Portland Timbers at Providence Park. Brian Fernandez broke the record for most consecutive games with a goal to start an MLS career, Steve Clark and the team’s defense notched another clean sheet, and the Timbers picked up three more valuable […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After taking a heavily rotated team to Montreal and falling against the Impact four days ago, a well-rested, first choice Portland Timbers team will be back at Providence Park tonight with another chance to gain ground on a Western Conference playoff rival in FC Dallas (8 p.m., TV on UniMás and KPTV). […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Just four days removed from their biggest win of the season, the Portland Timbers are right back in action tonight at Stade Saputo in Montreal — where what is likely to be a heavily rotated Timbers team will try to grind out a result against the Impact (4:30 p.m., TV on KPTV). […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers There will be, happily enough, plenty more games of soccer played at Providence Park this summer. But there won’t be many as fun as this one was. The Portland Timbers pummeled the Houston Dynamo by a score of four goals to nil on Saturday night at the corner of 18th and Morrison. […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a pair of U.S. Open Cup wins, the Portland Timbers are set to return to MLS action for the first time in three weeks on Saturday night at Providence Park — where they’ll face a shorthanded Houston Dynamo team in a vitally important Western Conference clash (8:00 p.m., TV on ROOT […]

Sam Ortega/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers tonight begin a stretch of four games in 11 days with a fifth round U.S. Open Cup clash against the LA Galaxy at Providence Park — with a spot in the tournament’s quarterfinal, and a potential trip to LAFC, on the line (8 p.m., TV on ESPN+). The Opponent […]

Portland Timbers It wasn’t a dominant performance by any means, but the Portland Timbers had just enough — and got just enough luck — to see off the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday night in Tacoma and advance to the last 16 of the U.S. Open Cup. The Timbers didn’t make it easy on themselves. Facing […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a week-and-a-half off following their loss to LAFC, the Portland Timbers are back on the road and will be back in action tonight in Tacoma — where they will, for the fourth time in the last six years, face the Seattle Sounders in a U.S. Open Cup tilt in Washington (7:30 […]

Portland Timbers After an eighteen-month renovation project, more than six months away, and a season-opening 12 game road trip, Providence Park re-opened on Saturday night in grand fashion as the Timbers returned home to face league-leading LAFC. It was a spectacular setting. The evening was immaculate, the new stand was imposing, and the more than […]