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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers 273 days after it began, the Portland Timbers’ 2015 season at Providence Park ended with Nat Borchers. It ended with Nat Borchers on his back, fighting home what stands as the Western Conference Final’s decisive goal; and it ended with Nat Borchers standing on top of the eighteen yard box and saluting […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers If you make it this far, you deserve and receive a break. So, after dispatching the Vancouver Whitecaps in the Western Conference Semifinal on the first Sunday of November at BC Place, the Portland Timbers broke for a week off before resuming training and the chase for MLS Cup 2015. On Sunday […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers There was many great moments and memories made on Sunday night at BC Place during the Timbers’ dominating ouster of the Vancouver Whitecaps in the MLS Cup Playoffs. There was a group of players led, of course, by Nat Borchers, who danced along to the traveling Timbers Army’s Tetris celebration at full-time. […]

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports Sunday is a big day in Vancouver. The Whitecaps will be hosting their first MLS playoff game in front of a sold-out crowd of 27,500—the largest in the club’s history at BC Place. Carl Robinson’s team has never won in the MLS postseason, and winning is what the Whitecaps will most […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Everything was set up for a Thursday night hangover on Sunday afternoon at Providence Park. On just two days rest after playing one of the greatest games in MLS history, the Portland Timbers—not to mention their fans—had every reason to be emotionally and physically drained. And everyone in green and gold was […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It’s hard to believe that anyone — let alone everyone — has fully recovered from one of the greatest MLS games ever played on Thursday night at Providence Park. Including stoppage time, it took around 130 minutes of soccer, 22 penalty kicks, and several acts of God for the Portland Timbers still […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Here are the ten things we learned from the 2015 MLS Cup Playoffs Wild Card round. 1. A Game for the Ages We’ll be talking about Portland’s win over Sporting Kansas City forever. A quick rundown of what happened on Thursday night at Providence Park in a game that was every bit […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers If you’re reading this, you made it. You didn’t disintegrate when what should have been Saad Abdul-Salaam’s game-winning penalty hit the inside of the left post, skidded along the goal-line, hit the inside of the right post, and skidded just clear of the North End goal at Providence Park. Your head didn’t […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The 2015 MLS Cup Playoffs are here, and the Portland Timbers take center-stage tonight with the finale of the Wild Card games between the Timbers and Sporting Kansas City at Providence Park (7 pm, TV on UniMas and ROOT Sports.) Portland finished the regular season on Sunday with a feel-good 4-1 win […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Colorado Rapids’ RAZ bus pulled into the south end of Providence Park with just under ninety minutes to go until their Decision Day clash with the Portland Timbers, and the team inside stepped out into the kind of Rose City rain that appeared to be celebrating the Timbers’ impending return to […]

We’ve arrived at the end point. Sunday marks the final day of the 2015 MLS regular season, and, along with most of the rest of the league, the Portland Timbers head into their final match at Providence Park against the Colorado Rapids with everything to play for. With a win, Portland qualifies for the MLS […]

In the days leading up to Sunday afternoon’s show-stopper, fans and pundits alike were throwing out their shoulders decrying the Portland Timbers’ trip to the Los Angeles Galaxy a lost cause. But in 45 minutes, Portland turned around a 1-0 deficit to beat LA 5-2. In soccer more than in any other sport, because of […]