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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Coming off of a six-point homestand and playing their best soccer since March, the revitalized Portland Timbers face the ultimate test tonight: A trip north to CenturyLink Field to square off against Seattle’s Western Conference-leading Sounders (6:30 p.m., TV on Fox Sports 1). Portland is without a win against Seattle this year, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers For a half hour at the start of their Wednesday night clash with the Colorado Rapids at Providence Park, the Portland Timbers played with every ounce of the swagger that saw them make such a scintillating start to this MLS season in March — and though their performance on this night fizzled, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Just five days removed from their biggest win of the season over the New York Red Bulls, the Portland Timbers are back in action at Providence Park tonight for a midweek clash against the lowly Colorado Rapids (7:30 p.m., TV on KPDX). It’s one of the easiest games on the Timbers’ schedule, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Coming off their worst loss of the season six days ago in Toronto, the Portland Timbers return home for a nationally-televised Friday night showdown with the New York Red Bulls (7:00 p.m., TV on Fox Sports 1). It’s starting to be crunch time for the Timbers. Portland currently sits in fifth place […]

Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP Though they entered it as heavy underdogs, the Portland Timbers’ Saturday afternoon’s match at Toronto FC was right there for the taking. Through nearly an hour of play, without both Fanendo Adi and Liam Ridgewell, the Timbers were giving as good as they were getting against the Supporters’ Shield […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Unbeaten in three and coming off of an emphatic home win against the LA Galaxy, the Portland Timbers’ 2017 season has new life. On Saturday, it will get one of its biggest single-game tests yet: A date with Supporters’ Shield-leading Toronto FC at BMO Field (3:00 p.m., TV on ROOT Sports). It’s […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers entered Sunday’s brunch-time clash with the once-vaunted LA Galaxy without a home win in 56 days, below the Western Conference red line for the first time all season. For the Timbers, this was a must-win — and with their first-choice starting lineup as intact as it has been all […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a four-point, two-game road trip, the Portland Timbers will return to Providence Park on Sunday to face a struggling LA Galaxy team that — between the heat and the smoke — should feel right at home in the Rose City. Thanks to the unrelenting heat, the game — originally slated to […]

Thomas B. Shea/Houston Chronicle via AP Heading into the weekend, the Houston Dynamo were undefeated at home throughout the 2017 MLS season — and while the Portland Timbers didn’t change that on Saturday night, they came pretty damn close. On a sultry, sweaty midsummer evening at BBVA Compass Stadium, the Timbers led for 62 minutes, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers One week after resurrecting their season with a massive win in Vancouver, the Portland Timbers make one of the toughest trips in MLS — down to Texas to face a Houston Dynamo team that hasn’t lost at home all season (5:00 p.m., TV on ROOT Sports). The new-look Dynamo have been ruthless […]

Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP Mired in their worst run of form in five years and missing an eye-popping twelve first team players, the Portland Timbers appeared to be in dire straits as they trekked up to Vancouver for a Sunday afternoon clash with the suddenly-ascendent Whitecaps. But the Timbers who took the field […]