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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers You could say that the Seattle Sounders’ meltdown against the Portland Timbers an unlucky 13 days ago in the US Open Cup beat them again on Sunday, in the only MLS throw-down of the year at Providence Park between American soccer’s greatest rivals. In a way, you’d be right. Obafemi Martins was […]

It was just over a week and a half ago that the Seattle Sounders torpedoed their season with an absolute meltdown against the Portland Timbers in the US Open Cup. You remember, right? Until that day, the Sounders were rolling. They were the best team in the league by a long, long way. But since […]

Robert Mara Five in a row had a whole new meaning on Wednesday night in Southern California as the Los Angeles Galaxy poured a fistful of goals past a hapless Portland Timbers, who saw their much-ballyhooed winning streak come to a halting end in shocking fashion. It finished 5-0 to the Galaxy—the worst defeat for […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Feeling good and riding high, the Portland Timbers play tonight at the LA Galaxy in search of their fifth straight MLS win and sixth straight win in all competitions. This could be the stiffest test yet on the Timbers’ winning streak — the third game in a three-week stretch in which the […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The wins are coming fast and easy for the Portland Timbers now, as a pleasant night in the Rose City was matched with a pleasant performance from its home team. Goals from Argentines Maxi Urruti and Gaston Fernandez were more than enough to put Portland firmly amongst the playoff places in the […]

The Portland Timbers’ midweek match against the Seattle Sounders will live long in memory. The fallout, which includes a suspension for Clint Dempsey, the Sounders’ first ever loss at Starfire Sports, and the Timbers going to a US Open Cup quarterfinal, provides plenty of ammunition for the rematch against Seattle at Providence Park next weekend. […]

The game was getting tight, the night was getting dark, the cards were down, and the stars were out, and there was just no way that Seattle was going to beat the Portland Timbers. So the Sounders did what the Sounders do when they’re pushed into a corner: They lit themselves on fire. Brad Evans, […]

It’s time for that annual, seemingly unavoidable, usually frustrating event: The Portland Timbers traveling to Tukwila to play the Seattle Sounders in an early-summer, early-round US Open Cup matchup. The game is going down tonight (Tuesday June 16) at Starfire Sports Stadium, with the winner moving on in the United States’ oldest, biggest, knockout club […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers From the get-go, the Timbers were different. Hot out of the gate, crisp in possession, interchanging with purpose, and playing with the kind of verve and conviction that made this city fall so hard for its soccer team in 2013. But when the goal didn’t come in the first half, and then […]

After resurrecting a season very much on the brink with an unusual, almost unheard of six-point week last week, the Portland Timbers fall back into a familiar groove—pressure, injuries, absences, tough games, and, above all else, opportunity. The New England Revolution—sans their two best players—come calling at Providence Park on Saturday night for Portland’s first […]

Jack Jewsbury’s last Portland Timbers MLS goal was two and a half years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the time since, the old midfielder lost his starting spot, his captaincy to Will Johnson — and apparently the vice-captaincy to Liam Ridgewell — reemerged as a starting fullback, lost that job too, and came back […]

The Timbers advance to Colorado their third games in eight days, after a busy week which saw a deflating loss in Toronto, a Timbers Army protest, a much-needed victory over DC United, and some fireworks from owner Merritt Paulson. This last game, Saturday at 6:00 PM at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in the Denver suburb […]