Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Eric Brunner (right) reacts after scoring against Chivas in a US Open Cup qualifier in March. The line on the Timbers so far this season? Perfect at home, shaky on the road. Until last week, that is: DC United dinged Portland’s pristine MLS home record on Sunday and handed the Timbers their […]
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Timbers Round Out Their Schedule
The Timbers will host Argentina’s Independiente on July 26 and I hope they bring this guy. Having taken their lumps from some pass-happy Dutchmen, the Timbers made the final addition to their international exhibition schedule today when Portland announced it’d host Argentina’s Club Atletico Independiente in a friendly on July 26. It’s the second straight […]
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United Show Not All Is Perfect On Portland’s Homefront
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers An unfamiliar sight: Portland players react to their first MLS home loss of the season. When do you ever see an assistant referee take center stage and make back-to-back, identical game-changing calls? And how often does a team’s top scorer, its captain and its coach become embroiled in an on-field spat in […]
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Portland vs. DC United — High-Pitched Live Blog Action
Two Timbers face their former club tonight as Portland puts its perfect MLS home record on the line at 2 p.m. today (on Fox-12 TV and 750 AM) against DC United. Keeper Troy Perkins and defender Rodney Wallace will take on their former mates, which leaves me wondering if head coach John Spencer sent any […]
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Seattle Supporters Show Their True Colors
Remember, kids: Always sound out those big words. Despite Portland’s 2-0 friendly loss to an impressive AFC Ajax club last night, Timbers fans were certainly chipper today when this banner FAIL showed its non-spell-checked self around the interwebs. “#BULE” briefly trended in Portland and propaganda began being dispersed. Meanwhile, the Emerald City Supporters disavowed the […]
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Portland vs. AFC Ajax — High-Pitched Live Blog Action
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Wanna just go Dutch? Well, you’re in luck, because the Timbers welcome Amsterdam’s AFC Ajax (pronounced Eye–Yax) at 7 p.m. tonight for a friendly at the House of Pane. The game means nothing in terms of MLS standings, but Ajax is soccer royalty, with 111 years of history and a number of […]
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Portland Works Crew On Perfect Night For Home Records, Cast-Off Defenders
Steve Dipaola/Portland Timbers A bare-chested Eric Brunner (who exchanged jerseys post-game with former Columbus Crew teammate Chad Marshall) raises the first round of his Timbers career after he scored the lone goal in a 1-0 Portland win on Saturday night. John Spencer sent Eric Brunner a text at 9:45 on Friday night: “A Columbus player […]
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Portland vs. Columbus — High-Pitched Live Blog Action
Yup. Still here. So, the world didn’t end, and you suddenly have no plans. Well, things are just beginning get interesting for the Timbers, who find themselves in the thick of playoff chatter (yeah, I know it’s early) thanks in large part to a flawless home record. Portland (4-3-2) is putting perfection on the line […]
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Good Match-Day, News! Timbers Look To Stay Unbeaten At Home … For All Eternity
Miranda Chrislock/Portland Timbers Is this heaven? No, it’s the House of Pane, where the Timbers have reserved their most divine play this season and sold-out crowds have made things rather hellish for visitors. Portland can’t seem to lose at home, while Columbus can’t seem to win on the road. Will those trends continue before it […]
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Timbers Coach Rains Smack On Seattle
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Blame it on the rain? No, no. We have an early nominee for quote of the season. And with it, an escalation in that whole Portland-Seattle rivalry thing. Timbers coach John Spencer unleashed undoubtedly the best trash talk of the Cascadia Cup’s MLS era on Tuesday, basically calling Seattle a bunch of […]
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Crimson Tied: Portland Gets The Point At Seattle
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Officially, nobody claimed victory after Portland and Seattle slogged around Qwest Field on Saturday night to a 1-1 draw. But between the two Cascadia Cup arch-rivals meeting for the first time as MLS clubs, it was Portland who certainly had reason to feel like winners. The Timbers escaped a hostile environment with […]
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Portland at Seattle — High-Pitched Live-Blog Action
Members of Timbers Army make their presence known after hopping off their buses in the parking lot of Qwest Field. Thirty-six years of Northwest soccer history will come to a head tonight when the Timbers face arch-rival Seattle at Qwest Field in the first-ever MLS Cascadia Cup match. The heated rivals are tied for fourth […]