via BuzzFeed Oh Say Can You See . . . So yes, this World Cup is coming. It’s a big deal that millions and millions and, oh, a couple more millions of people are getting incredibly excited for and it arrives June 11. I’ve got a little primer in the works for teams to keep […]
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All The Right Moves : Timbers Beat Boca Juniors 3-2
Allison Andrews Timber Joey doing his thing. Sometimes things just go your way. Like when you find $10 on the sidewalk while walking to Powell’s. Or when your cable company somehow comps you all the movie channels for free. Or when you call your best friend to say hi and then realize that it is […]
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Timbers Soccer: As American As Apple Pie
Memorial Day Weekend: cookouts, American flags, beginning of summer, sale sale sales! . . . soccer. The Portland Timbers go into this all-American weekend of barbeques and burgers with nary a victory to show for their May 2010 campaign. The forwards keep hitting the post, the midfield has been uneven at best, and the defense […]
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Timbers on the Radio and the Interwebs, Champions League on the Telly . . .
The Portland Timbers are off to the East Coast for some much needed road trip bonding time and a special team sponsored scavenger hunt that involves finding their offense. They take on Crystal Palace Baltimore, a team that is evidentially some kind of feeder for Crystal Palace FC in England. The Timbers fell to the […]
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Winds-day Night Soccer: Montréal: 1, Timbers: 0
Winnie the Pooh: Happy Winds-day, Piglet. Piglet: [being blown away] Well… it isn’t… very happy… f-for me.from “Winnie The Pooh and The Blustery Day,” 1968 Somewhere in the bowels of PGE Park, the Portland Timbers have to be feeling a bit like Piglet. With the winds blowing and howling around them in an unseasonably chilly […]
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Timbers! Montréal! New Blogger! Cupcakes!
Brian Costello The Portland Timbers take on the Montréal Impact (or L’Impact de Montréal for you Francophones out there) tonight at PGE Park at 7pm. Timbers head coach Gavin Wilkinson is off scouting in Ghana so let’s hope the players don’t have any of the Boss-Is-Out-Of-Town-Let’s-Sneak-Out-Early-From-Work-For-Cupcakes kind of energy. Given their recent run of play—a […]