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AP Photo/Jack Dempsey There was nothing all that remarkable about the Portland Timbers’ sixth straight road loss on Saturday night in Commerce City, Colorado. Even Caleb Porter’s post-game comments were unusually circumspect. Get punched in the face enough times, the logic goes, and you stop feeling anything at all. The Colorado Rapids did what the […]

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports The Portland Timbers’ road woes have finally caught up to them. Four days after failing to win on the road for the fifteenth consecutive time this MLS season, the Timbers were caught and passed for the Western Conference’s sixth and final playoff spot by the Seattle Sounders. That’s not to say […]

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports It just goes on and on. The Portland Timbers, on the back of two straight wins and seemingly in their best form of the of the year, traveled to Houston to play the last-place Dynamo on Saturday night at BBVA Compass Stadium and were summarily thrashed. It was a dreadful performance. […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It’s the end of an era. The Portland Timbers’ first captain, first goalscorer, and first trophy-winner is walking away. Jack Jewsbury will retire at the end of the 2016 season. Jewsbury, 35 and in the midst of his fourteenth MLS season, chose the end of the Timbers’ annual Stand Together Banquet on […]

Eric Cech – Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are starting to roll. Back in the friendly confines of a gray, drizzly Providence Park, the Timbers beat the Philadelphia Union 2-1 on Saturday to move into fifth place in the Western Conference — a full six points clear of the red line that has loomed so […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers On Monday morning, just a day removed from their crucial 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake, the Portland Timbers traveled to Central America for a Wednesday clash against Costa Rican champions Saprissa in the CONCACAF Champions League. It wasn’t pretty. American teams have had precious little success in the Monster’s Cave, Saprissa […]

Eric Cech – Portland Timbers As bad as they’ve looked at so many different points in 2016, Saturday night felt good for the Portland Timbers from the moment they opened the gates at Providence Park. With the club celebrating its 100th consecutive sellout in the MLS era ahead of another crucial game in the Western […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers’ game on Saturday night at Providence Park against Real Salt Lake will be hugely significant in the Western Conference playoff race, but, for completely unrelated reasons, it will also be a special night for the club (7:30 PM, TV on ROOT Sports). Saturday’s match will mark the 100th straight […]

USA Today Sports Images No matter the heights they soar to at Providence Park, no matter what they’ve done the week before, and no matter who is on the field, the 2016 Portland Timbers can’t win a road game. Through fourteen road games this season, the Timbers are still without a win away from home […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Last weekend, the Portland Timbers got their title defense back on track with an absolutely necessary 4-2 thumping of the Seattle Sounders. On Saturday in Frisco, the Timbers will try to build on that victory as they face the Western Conference’s pace-setter FC Dallas (6:00 PM, TV on KPDX). Caleb Porter will […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers, be it through missed flights or missed chances or missing players, had their backs firmly against the wall ahead of Sunday afternoon’s do-or-die meeting with the Seattle Sounders at Providence Park. Their response? It was to blow through the wall. By the time Hilario Grajeda blew his whistle to […]