Timbers Draw Final Home Match 0-0

The Portland Timbers’ last regular season home game of the 2012 season was simply dreadful. There was no heartfelt tifo from the Timbers Army recognizing the players and coaches; instead there was a single sign, in spartan white and black that clearly said, “GW Out”. Around the grouchy Army, the stands were sparse, as the […]

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Timbers Beat Seattle, Take First Place

Long after the final whistle blew Sunday night at Jeld-Wen Field, a lone, scraggly strand of wrist-tape lingered, untouched, on the pitch. Just 20 minutes earlier, it belonged to Clint Dempsey, the player that has come to define the fiercest football rivalry in North America. But when the utterly classless and disgraceful Dempsey threw it […]

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Drenched Timbers Look Back at Galaxy

There’s just no beating the Timbers in the Portland rain. The home team was right at home in the middle of an astonishing late-September monsoon in Portland, and the Timbers ground out a vital 1-0 win over the back-to-back champion LA Galaxy Sunday afternoon at Jeld-Wen Field. For Caleb Porter, 1-0 is the new 3-3. […]

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Will the Timbers Qualify for CONCACAF?

Earlier this year, I was watching a soccer game on TV and during halftime saw an ad for the CONCACAF Champions League – our region of the world’s largest club tournament. It’s a tournament I honestly knew almost nothing about, who qualified and how. At the time, the Portland Timbers’ season was flying high, and […]

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Timbers Trade for Exceptional Urruti

And with that, the last of the original four MLS Portland Timbers are gone. It’s fitting, given that the Timbers are transitioning from a team often that played like an expansion squad at times in its first two years in MLS to a bonafide top-flight contender. Portland traded likable young striker Bright Dike to Toronto […]

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Sounders Add to Timbers’ Frustration up North

Written by Written by Abe Asher | This article originally appeared on OregonSportsNews.com It all started so promisingly for the Portland Timbers Sunday night at Jeld-Wen Field, and then, like the Timbers’ central midfield, they just slowly faded away. Instead of crashing the party up north, Portland was part of the show. And really, what […]

How to Create a Better Major League Soccer

Written by Written by Abe Asher | This article originally appeared on OregonSportsNews.com We are near the start of the new Premier League season. Imagine this: With ten games to go in the league season, 13 teams are within ten points of the lead. Eight teams are within six points of the league leaders, and […]

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Timbers Rise to 4th In MLS Power Rankings

This week saw the Portland Timbers rise up to the position of 4th in the latest MLS Power Rankings. It doesn’t mean as much when compared to the fact that we’re standing second in the Western Conference. In fact, the Power Rankings mean nothing in the practical sense but they’re a lot of fun. Especially […]

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You Cannot Stop These Timbers

The Timbers extended their unbeaten streak to 9 games this week with a tie in Dallas on Wednesday and a 3-0 win at home against Chivas USA on Sunday. The game in Dallas was a scrappy back and forth contest that saw two of the fastest paced teams going at it. The Timbers were given […]

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