Chants fill westbound MAX trains. The lines on a widened pitch are a fresh, bright white. Eight ropes hang from the roof of the North End. We’re LIVE at Jeld-Wen Field for an opening night of Major League Soccer that feels a bit like a “do-over” for the Portland Timbers. Reset, reboot, revamp—whichever way you […]
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Good Match-Day, News!
Brent Diskin Third time’s the charm? The Timbers officially hit reset on the franchise at 4:30 this afternoon, as Portland hosts the club sponsored by Red Bull from New York to open its third Major League Soccer season. Opening day! Let’s go to press! While PTFC is all but starting over with a new coach, […]
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Timbers Army: Do Ask, Do Tell—Loud And Proud
JennyNeill.com/Prost Amerika Timbers Army’s Sunday White atop her capo stand during a Timbers match. Searching for one chanting, cheering example that the world is a more tolerant place? Look no further than the North End of Jeld-Wen Field this season, says HuffPost writer Steve Clare, who highlights Portland’s own Timbers Army as just the sort […]
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Blazers vs. Celtics – Hot Live Blog Action!
We’re LIVE at the Rose Garden for a historic meeting between your Portland Trail Blazers and the Boston Celtics. OK, that may be overstating it—but it’s 70s Night here, celebrating Rip City and the decade in which Portland captured its lone NBA championship. And the winds of history are certainly in the air. It adorned […]
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AIK 1-1 Portland: Ready (Or Not), Here Come Porter’s Timbers
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Caleb Porter holds his newest piece of neckware to the Army that provided it. Caleb Porter had a fresh “NO PITY” scarf draped around his neck when he stepped into his postgame press conference following the Portland Timbers’ 1-1 draw with Stockholm’s AIK. As is the 38-year-old’s custom, three preseason home matches […]
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Good Match-Day, News!
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers We’re almost there. But first, the marquee match of the preseason is set for 5(ish) tonight, when your Portland Timbers host Swedish side AIK to close out an offseason of change in Soccer City. New coach Caleb Porter said he’d put his best foot forward in tonight’s finale, with a group similar […]
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Blazers vs. Suns – Hot Live Blog Action!
We’re LIVE at the Rose Garden, where sure as the sun is setting, your Portland Trail Blazers enter the (unofficial) second half of the season ahead of Phoenix in the standings. That may not be much to write home about (the Suns have the worst record in the Western Conference) but so it goes for […]
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Blazers vs. Jazz – Hot Live Blog Action!
We’re LIVE at the Rose Garden, where it’s Groundhog Day all over again for the Blazers and Jazz. For the second time in as many nights, the Northwest Division foes meet, with the venue shifting from Plum Alley (why yes, I had to look that up) to Rip City. You can almost hear the opening […]
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As the Chainsaw Turns
Timbers Dig Deep
New coach, new season… new hope for the Timbers?
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Blazers vs. Clippers – Hot Live Blog Action!
We’re LIVE at the Rose Garden as your Portland Trail Blazers open up a weekend home-and-home with the best professional basketball team in Los Angeles. Yes, that would be the Clippers(!), who are off to a historic start thanks in large part to the 17-game winning streak in December. And while Lob City’s rise is […]
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Timbers Bolster Midfield While MLS Battles Supporters
MLS Portland’s newest midfielder, Diego Valeri. Will he lead the Timbers to a trademarked Cascadia Cup? If you manage to get Timbers, Sounders and Whitecaps supporters to agree, you must be doing something right. Or, y’know, something terribly wrong. On the same day the Timbers announced a major addition to their midfield, a slow-boiling disagreement […]
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Timbers Scheduled To Drop Cascadia Cup, Make Playoff Push
Portland Timbers New Timbers forward Ryan Johnson gets some work in at an empty Jeld-Wen Field on Tuesday. MLS released Portland’s 2013 schedule on Wednesday, which included four of six Cascadia Cup matches away from home. If the Cascadia Cup is to stay in Portland, the Timbers will need to leave Vancouver and Seattle with […]