Lights, Camera, Action for Trail Blazers
The stage is set, the roster has been cut down to 15 and basketball season is here. In less than a week, the Portland Trail Blazers take the court in Phoenix to kick off the new campaign. During the preseason there have been clear improvements when it comes to the branch depth and defense. The […]
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 […]
Mariota: A HeisMan for the NiceMan
He’s from Hawaii, plays football for the University of Oregon. Mello Marcus sounds right? When it comes to Husky week, does he bring out the Mean Mariota? Does he scream at his teammates, hassle the refs, ignore his coach? No, because he’s a nice man. Ndamukong Suh is busy writing the book on kicking and […]
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 […]
Meet Brian Wheeler: Voice of the Blazers
In May of this year, Portland Trail Blazers radio play-by-play announcer Brian Wheeler visited Oregon State University and did a Q&A with OSU student media. Wheeler answered questions and talked for an hour. He was mesmerizing. As every Blazers fan knows, Wheeler is a supremely gifted broadcaster. His commentary jumps out of the radio and […]
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. […]
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 […]
Mike Riley Should Not be Fired from OSU
The last two football seasons have been very adventurous for Oregon State head football coach Mike Riley. On September 3rd, 2011, Mike Riley’s Beavers had arguably one of their most embarrassing losses in school history, losing to FCS school Sacramento State. Sacramento State wasn’t even competitive in their own division, but somehow still found a […]
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 […]
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 […]