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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Fresh off their worst home defeat as an MLS franchise, the near-comically depleted Portland Timbers head north for a Sunday afternoon clash with their resurgent Canadian rivals from Vancouver (3:30 p.m., TV on Fox Sports 1). The Timbers, now just one point above the Western Conference red line, are hurting. They could […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers On Wednesday night at Providence Park, the Portland Timbers’ season — teetering on the brink of collapse for several months now — turned bizarro. The Timbers, the only team in MLS who could return from a two week summer break more depleted than they entered it, dressed only sixteen players. One of […]

Eric Cech/Portland Timbers After a two week break from MLS play, the Portland Timbers jump back into action tonight at Providence Park looking to start the second half of the season in the same lively vain in which they started the first (7:30 p.m., TV on ROOT Sports). The Timbers’ opponent tonight will be Real […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Now that was more like it. Coming down the stretch at Providence Park on Wednesday night, the Portland Timbers had one of MLS’s best teams on the ropes. Diego Valeri and Sebastian Blanco were sensational. Rookies Victor Arboleda and Marco Farfan entered the fray throwing darts. At the end of the day, […]

Molly J Smith/Portland Timbers Winless in five games, and having parted ways with head athletic trainer Nik Wald this week, the Portland Timbers face another stiff test tonight at Providence Park: a meeting with red-hot, Eastern Conference-leading Chicago Fire (7:30 pm, TV on KPDX). This is the last game the Timbers will play before the […]

Nik Wald (left) Cathy Cheny/Portland Business Journal That’s right, everyone. The Timbers’ two-month slide down the Western Conference standings is the fault of the now-former head trainer Nik Wald. The Oregonian‘s Jamie Goldberg reported Monday that Wald, who has been with the team since 2007, is out. The change comes on the heels of the […]

AP Photo/Orlin Wagner Despite all the injuries — both physical and mental — suffered in the last week, when the Portland Timbers retook the field on Saturday night in Kansas City, they looked like their best selves. Playing in a venue where the home team hadn’t lost in more than a year, the Timbers were […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers A short week after the most disappointing night of their season, the Portland Timbers — or what remains of them — are back in action this Saturday night at Sporting Kansas City (7:00 pm, TV on ESPN). It’s promising to be a hellish trip. As they prepare to face the class of […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It had to be Clint Dempsey. Since his shock move to Seattle from Tottenham in the late summer of 2013, no single player has more fueled the great rivalry between the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders — or played better in it — than he has. So it makes sense that when […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The first and only game of the year between the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders at Providence Park is almost here. Due to the heat forecasted for Sunday, kick off — originally supposed to be 1:00 pm — has been moved back six-and-a-half hours to 7:30 pm, with TV coverage now on […]

Minnesota United All that stood yesterday between the Portland Timbers and their massive Sunday showdown with the Seattle Sounders at Providence Park was the small matter of a midweek trip to Minnesota to play MLS’ joint-newest club. Harmless, right? Not so much. In just 90 minutes at TCF Bank Stadium on Wednesday night, the Timbers […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are in the midst of their first trip north to Minnesota for an MLS game, where they’ll play Minnesota United this evening at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis (5:00 pm, TV on KPDX). It’s a game that has taken on added importance for a Timbers team that blew a […]