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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a well-deserved week off, the Timbers are back in action with a tricky Wednesday night tilt in Foxborough, Massachusetts against the New England Revolution (4:30 PM, TV on KPTV). The Timbers will be without Diego Valeri, who is suspended after being controversially sent off against San Jose, but could get both […]

Portland Timbers In a game that had it all — and turned on a dime from pedestrian to unhinged — there was just one constant. The Portland Timbers were good. Damn good. And after more than 100 minutes of soccer on Saturday night at Providence Park, they’d deservedly clinched their first victory since Opening Day […]

David Blair – Portland Timbers FC Six games into the 2016 season, the defending champion Portland Timbers have won just once — on opening day more than a month ago — and currently hold the second worst goal differential in all of MLS. On Wednesday night, the Timbers were humiliated at home by FC Dallas, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After the many trials and tribulations of the last two weeks, the hope — the expectation, really — was that the Portland Timbers would take the opportunity afforded by a rare Wednesday night tilt to get stuck into FC Dallas and get their 2016 season back on track. Instead, the Timbers face-planted. […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The conversation around MLS was hijacked late on Sunday night, when the LA Galaxy’s Nigel de Jong stomped on the ankle of Timbers’ star Darlington Nagbe in one of the most gruesome challenges the league has seen in the last five years. In the long-run, the incident will serve as a landmark […]

AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu It’d be nice in the aftermath of the Portland Timbers’ 1-1 draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday night to discuss an enjoyable and competitive soccer match. It’d be nice to talk about how Fanendo Adi might be the best striker in MLS, or about how the arrival of Jack […]

Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports It was in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson last October that the Portland Timbers looked for the first time like a team that was capable of winning MLS Cup — exploding for a jubilant 5-2 win over the then Cup-favorite Galaxy. Now, the Timbers return to Carson (6:30 PM, TV […]

The Associated Press There are no two ways around it. Be it because of fatigue, injury, travel, playing surface, or — gasp — a superior opponent, the Portland Timbers got thwacked on Sunday night. Orlando City ran it up on the champions, pouring it on in a 4-1 win that was entertainment as much as […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The March international break was a lively one for American soccer, but a restful one for its championship club. With a full two weeks off, the Portland Timbers spent time integrating new players and taking stock of an uneven start to the 2016 MLS season. The Timbers made their longest road-trip of […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake have played a number of entertaining matches through the years, and, by and large, those matches have been contested cleanly, skillfully, and evenly. Not so on Saturday night at Providence Park. The third game of the MLS season for both the Timbers and Salt Lake […]

Portland Timbers It took a critical injury, some truly terrible weather, and a goal of sheer genius, but the Portland Timbers’ unbeaten run of ten games finally came to an end on Sunday afternoon as the San Jose Earthquakes nabbed a 2-1 win over the MLS Cup champions at Avaya Stadium. For the Timbers, a […]

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The MLS season got off to a terrific start for the Portland Timbers last Sunday, as the club celebrated its 2015 championship and vanquished the Columbus Crew once again by the score of 2-1 on the strength of goals from Diego Valeri and Fanendo Adi. Firmly entrenched as the team to […]