Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It has all come down to this. After 33 games over seven months, the Portland Timbers’ playoff fate is relatively simple going into their final match of the season in Vancouver on Sunday (1:00 PM, TV on ROOT Sports). Win, and the Timbers are in. Anything else, and their 2016 season is […]
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Timbers’ Grabavoy To Retire At End of Season
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Portland Timbers midfielder Ned Grabavoy announced on Tuesday afternoon that he will retire at the end of the Timbers’ 2016 season. Grabavoy will leave professional soccer alongside Timbers legend Jack Jewsbury, who played his final home game last Sunday — and though Grabavoy’s place in club history doesn’t compare with Jewsbury’s, his […]
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Timbers Beat Colorado, Keep Playoff Hopes Alive
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It wasn’t a pretty week in Portland, and the 1-0 win that extended the Timbers’ 2016 MLS season on Sunday afternoon at Providence Park wasn’t pretty either. But 41 fouls, nine yellow cards, two penalties, two posts, the miss of the season, and a whole lot of rain later, the Timbers — […]
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Timbers v. Colorado Match Preview
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a much-needed week off due to FIFA’s October international break, the Portland Timbers will finish their 2016 regular season schedule with a sprint: Three games in eight days that will decide the club’s fate in both MLS and the CONCACAF Champions League. First up is a meeting with the Colorado Rapids […]
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Timbers Fall in Colorado As Playoff Hopes Fade
AP Photo/Jack Dempsey There was nothing all that remarkable about the Portland Timbers’ sixth straight road loss on Saturday night in Commerce City, Colorado. Even Caleb Porter’s post-game comments were unusually circumspect. Get punched in the face enough times, the logic goes, and you stop feeling anything at all. The Colorado Rapids did what the […]
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Timbers v. Colorado Match Preview
Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports The Portland Timbers’ road woes have finally caught up to them. Four days after failing to win on the road for the fifteenth consecutive time this MLS season, the Timbers were caught and passed for the Western Conference’s sixth and final playoff spot by the Seattle Sounders. That’s not to say […]
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Feckless Timbers Dismantled in Houston
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports It just goes on and on. The Portland Timbers, on the back of two straight wins and seemingly in their best form of the of the year, traveled to Houston to play the last-place Dynamo on Saturday night at BBVA Compass Stadium and were summarily thrashed. It was a dreadful performance. […]
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Timbers v. Houston Match Preview
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports With Jack Jewsbury’s announcement on Sunday that this will be his last MLS season, the rest of 2016 has taken on a more urgent and immediate importance for a Portland Timbers team that appears to be rounding into form with just four games left in the regular season. Jewsbury will be […]
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Jewsbury To Retire At Conclusion of 2016 Season
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It’s the end of an era. The Portland Timbers’ first captain, first goalscorer, and first trophy-winner is walking away. Jack Jewsbury will retire at the end of the 2016 season. Jewsbury, 35 and in the midst of his fourteenth MLS season, chose the end of the Timbers’ annual Stand Together Banquet on […]
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Timbers Win Again, March Towards Postseason
Eric Cech – Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are starting to roll. Back in the friendly confines of a gray, drizzly Providence Park, the Timbers beat the Philadelphia Union 2-1 on Saturday to move into fifth place in the Western Conference — a full six points clear of the red line that has loomed so […]
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Timbers v. Philadelphia Match Preview
Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers On Monday morning, just a day removed from their crucial 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake, the Portland Timbers traveled to Central America for a Wednesday clash against Costa Rican champions Saprissa in the CONCACAF Champions League. It wasn’t pretty. American teams have had precious little success in the Monster’s Cave, Saprissa […]
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Timbers See Out Massive Win Over Real Salt Lake
Eric Cech – Portland Timbers As bad as they’ve looked at so many different points in 2016, Saturday night felt good for the Portland Timbers from the moment they opened the gates at Providence Park. With the club celebrating its 100th consecutive sellout in the MLS era ahead of another crucial game in the Western […]