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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 […]

Robert Mara On Wednesday night, the Portland Timbers got a season-saving win at Real Salt Lake. Still tied on points and trailing on a tiebreaker for the sixth and final playoff spot with the San Jose Earthquakes, everyone is preparing for the final game of the season next Sunday at home against the Colorado Rapids […]

When it came right down to it on a Wednesday night at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, it just didn’t look like Real Salt Lake believed. It looked like RSL’s lions, Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales, and Nick Rimando, knew deep down that their team wasn’t good enough—on the night, and on the season. […]

Two Saturdays ago, it was all hands on deck for a huge Portland Timbers home game against Sporting Kansas City. But the Timbers lost 1-0, and over the last week and a half, increasingly sharp questions have come the way of a team and coach who find themselves on the wrong side of the red […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers put together a terrific marketing campaign ahead their inaugural MLS season in 2011, but the best plug I witnessed for the new team was at the old PGE Park in 2010. It was the team’s last year of minor league soccer in a minor league baseball stadium, and all […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Everyone took their places for Providence Park’s last Saturday night game of the 2015 MLS season expecting to see something big happen. The Portland Timbers, with new energy and purpose, were so hot out of the gate against Sporting Kansas City that Caleb Porter spent the majority of the first thirty minutes […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With their backs against the wall last weekend in Columbus, the Portland Timbers delivered a gutsy 2-1 win to stay in the thick of the Western Conference playoff race. On Saturday night at 7:30, Caleb Porter’s team returns home to Providence Park for their penultimate game of the season against newly crowned […]

Saturday night was a gut-check for the Portland Timbers. Without a win since mid-August, it would have surprised no one if the Timbers went on the road to a young, hungry, playoff-bound Columbus Crew side and continued to slide. Instead, battling to halt the drip of what felt like a season slipping away, the Timbers […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers, coming off a slightly humiliating home loss last Saturday against the New York Red Bulls, enter this weekend of MLS play just one point above the red line for the last Western Conference playoff place, in search of the club’s first win in over a month. Getting that elusive […]