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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Eight days after claiming the Cascadia Cup and the Western Conference’s top seed on the final day of the MLS regular season, the Portland Timbers’ quest for MLS Cup number two begins tonight. The first hurdle for the Timbers is a resurgent Houston Dynamo team that knocked Portland’s old nemesis Sporting Kansas […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With a win against Vancouver on Sunday afternoon at Providence Park, the Portland Timbers would lift the Cascadia Cup and win the Western Conference on the final day of the MLS regular season. It was a mouthwatering proposition. The payoff wasn’t bad either. Goals from Liam Ridgewell and Darren Mattocks on either […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers On Sunday afternoon, Providence Park will play host to its biggest game since the first leg of the 2015 Western Conference championship: a Decision Day clash between the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps, with number one seed in the Western Conference playoffs and the Cascadia Cup on the line (1:00 p.m., TV […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers In yet another odd year, everything is coming up green and gold. A day after the Portland Thorns returned the NWSL championship to the Rose City, the Portland Timbers clinched their return to the MLS Cup Playoffs with a fabulous 4-0 victory over hapless DC United on a lovely fall Sunday evening […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Five days after the United States men’s national team failed to qualify for the World Cup finals for the first time since 1986, the Portland Timbers will retake the field to resume their MLS Cup chase on Sunday evening at Providence Park (4:30 p.m., TV on ROOT Sports). The U.S.’s failure in […]

The Portland Timbers began Saturday with a chance to clinch their playoff return and stay out in front of the likes of Seattle and Sporting Kansas City in the race to a top-two finish in the Western Conference. But for the second time in San Jose this season, the Timbers fell flat. Vako opened the […]

Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports With three games remaining in the MLS regular season, the race for the top two seeds in the Western Conference playoffs is wide open — with Vancouver, Portland, Kansas City, and Seattle separated at the top of the table by just a single point. On Saturday night, the Timbers hit the […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With a grueling three-game road-trip in the rearview mirror, the Portland Timbers entered their final four games of the MLS regular season looking to roll up wins and momentum heading into the playoffs starting at the end of October. On Sunday night, they got off to a sensational start. The Timbers stomped […]

Portland Timbers For the first time in more than a month, the Portland Timbers will return home on Sunday to — with an assist from new goalkeeping signing Derrick Tellez — take on Orlando City SC (5:00 p.m., TV on FOX Sports 1). With four games to go in the season — and three of […]

Adam Fondren/The Deseret News via AP With his headed goal two minutes after halftime on Saturday night at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, Portland Timbers midfielder Diego Valeri became the first player in the 22-year history of Major League Soccer to score a goal in eight consecutive games. The fact that Valeri broke […]

Portland Timbers Coming off of a 1-0 win at New York City last weekend and tied on points atop the Western Conference, the Portland Timbers complete their three-game road-trip on Saturday night with a matchup against Real Salt Lake in Sandy (6:30 p.m., TV on KPDX). For RSL, clinging to faint playoff hopes with five […]

Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are rolling. Not two months removed from a dire run in which they won won just two of thirteen games, the Timbers reached the top of the Western Conference again on Saturday night by becoming just the second team to team to beat New York City FC at Yankee Stadium […]