Know Your Timbers’ Opponent: Real Salt Lake
This weekly column will break down the opposition facing the Portland Timbers, hopefully giving you an insight into the challenge we can expect the Timbers to face. The Portland Timbers travel to Utah to play Real Salt Lake. At the end of last season, the Utahn’s lost their head coach Jason Kreis to new expansion […]
Know Your Timbers’ Opponent: Chivas USA
This weekly column will break down the opposition facing the Portland Timbers, hopefully giving you an insight into the challenge we can expect the Timbers to face. After a turbulent offseason for the LA club, a strong preseason offered new hope for the red & whites. The MLS announced that it had purchased the club […]
Know Your Timbers’ Opponent: Seattle Sounders
This weekly column will break down the opposition facing the Portland Timbers, hopefully giving you an insight into the challenge we can expect the Timbers to face. This weekend, the Portland Timbers host long time rivals, the Seattle Sounders. The most well known enemy of the Portland Timbers, is none other than the Seattle Sounders. […]
Know Your Timbers’ Opponent: FC Dallas
This weekly column will break down the opposition facing the Portland Timbers, hopefully giving you an insight into the challenge we can expect the Timbers to face. This weekend, the Portland Timbers travel to Texas to play FC Dallas. Surprisingly, the Texans nearly started the season without a head coach, before Oscar Pareja was appointed […]
Timbers Announce Renamed Stadium: Providence Park
The Portland Timbers and Providence Health & Services today announced a new deeply integrated community partnership. The multiyear deal is founded in health and wellness initiatives and events throughout the region as well as a name change of the Major League Soccer (MLS) club’s historic downtown home venue to Providence Park, which annually plays host […]
Portland Timbers to Announce Signings as 2014 Takes Shape
Today, a months-long wait to officially unveil Portland Timbers’ roster moves made at the end of 2013 will be over. The Oregonian and, you know, Merritt Paulson have confirmed that the Portland Timbers will announce four roster moves tomorrow – two signings, one homegrown player, and one player loan. The two new signings will both […]
Portland Timbers’ Caleb Porter Named MLS Coach of the Year
Major League Soccer today announced Caleb Porter as the 2013 Coach of the Year. In his first MLS season as a professional coach, Porter led the Timbers to a 14-5-15 record and the number one seed in the Western Conference. The club’s five losses tied the MLS record for fewest losses in a 34-game regular […]
Welcome to Seattle’s Nightmare: Portland 2, Sounders 1
Before the biggest match in the history of North America’s most heated derby, Seattle’s Emerald City Supporters unveiled their tifo. Like most things connected with the Sounders, it was shiny. The slogan to go along with the sparkle? Welcome to your nightmare. I think those supporters were referring to a Portland nightmare. But the display […]
Your Portland Timbers 2013 MLS Playoff Guide
The Portland Timbers have qualified for the MLS playoffs for the first time ever. Their first game in the Western Conference Semifinals will either be at Seattle or Colorado on Saturday, at 7:00PM on the NBC Sports Network. The second leg of the aggregate series will be at Jeld-Wen Field the following Thursday. Here’s what […]
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 […]