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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers’ game on Saturday night at Providence Park against Real Salt Lake will be hugely significant in the Western Conference playoff race, but, for completely unrelated reasons, it will also be a special night for the club (7:30 PM, TV on ROOT Sports). Saturday’s match will mark the 100th straight […]

USA Today Sports Images No matter the heights they soar to at Providence Park, no matter what they’ve done the week before, and no matter who is on the field, the 2016 Portland Timbers can’t win a road game. Through fourteen road games this season, the Timbers are still without a win away from home […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Last weekend, the Portland Timbers got their title defense back on track with an absolutely necessary 4-2 thumping of the Seattle Sounders. On Saturday in Frisco, the Timbers will try to build on that victory as they face the Western Conference’s pace-setter FC Dallas (6:00 PM, TV on KPDX). Caleb Porter will […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers, be it through missed flights or missed chances or missing players, had their backs firmly against the wall ahead of Sunday afternoon’s do-or-die meeting with the Seattle Sounders at Providence Park. Their response? It was to blow through the wall. By the time Hilario Grajeda blew his whistle to […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With their position in the Western Conference playoff picture under serious and immediate threat, the Portland Timbers will play their biggest game since MLS Cup 2015 on Sunday afternoon as they face the arch rival Seattle Sounders at Providence Park (2:00 PM, TV on ESPN). Last weekend in Seattle, the Sounders — […]

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports The Portland Timbers will make their first and only trip of the 2016 season to Seattle on Sunday night, to face a revitalized Sounders team in a match that suddenly carries major playoff implications for both teams (6:30 PM, TV on FOX Sports 1). This match is the first of a […]

Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports Last Sunday, down a man against Sporting Kansas City, the Portland Timbers dug deep. This weekend at RFK Stadium against DC United? Not so much. Blame the weather — so oppressively hot that kickoff was pushed back an hour — the cross-country travel, the efforts of a competent opposition, or the […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers are back on the right side of the Western Conference standings after a win equal parts improbable and impressive against Sporting Kansas City last Sunday at Providence Park. This Saturday, the Timbers welcome back captain Liam Ridgewell to the lineup as they make their first trip of the year […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers On Sunday, the Portland Timbers scored what might be their most improbable and most important win of the 2016 season to date — overcoming an early Diego Chara red card to beat Sporting Kansas City by a resounding 3-0 scoreline. It was a big day. That being said, nothing we saw on […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers When Diego Chara flattened Benny Feilhaber not two feet away from referee Baldomero Toldeo just twelve minutes into the Portland Timbers’ crucial Sunday afternoon matchup against Sporting Kansas City at Providence Park, the odds facing the Timbers verged on insurmountable. Portland was staring at an eighty-minute slog down a man against a […]

USA Today The last time Sporting Kansas City played the Portland Timbers, Matt Besler chipped a spot-kick into the Timbers Army, Kevin Ellis sent his potential game-winning penalty off the left post, and Saad Abdul-Salaam sent his off the left post, off the right post, and into Timbers lore. That shootout ended when Sporting’s goalkeeper […]