Portland Timbers Offside

Roster Freeze: The USL First Division roster freeze has come and gone without the Portland Timbers making any last minute changes. It is up to Steve Reese, Troy Ready, et al to make the promised land of the playoffs on their own. One deadline day move worth nothing did take place. The Minnesota Thunder sold forward Alen Marcina to Rochester for cash. That tells me that the Thunder, who are...

The original schedule had the Portland Timbers facing the Montreal Impact on Wednesday, August 27. That game has been pushed back until Monday, September 8 because of the Impact's participation in the Concacaf Champions League. As a result, the Timbers have a couple of weeks to prepare for their upcoming 8-day stretch when they face Miami, Rochester, Montreal and Charleston. That also means...

The Vancouver Whitecaps can't move out of Swangard Stadium soon enough as far as the Portland Timbers are concerned. The Timbers continued their amazing string of futility at the stadium in Burnaby, BC on Friday, losing 2-1 to the Whitecaps. That's 13 losses in 16 games there. Bobby Howe, Chris Agnello, Gavin Wilkinson...it doesn't matter who's at the helm. The results are always the same. In...

The starting keeper is back in Boston. The starting right back may be watching this one from home in Portland while on newborn duty. It's your turn to be a hero, Chase Harrison....

There have been times in previous seasons when I thought the Portland Timbers would travel to Vancouver to play the Whitecaps and they would come home with three points. I don't have this feeling heading into Friday's game. Consider me 100% jaded. Watching your team lose 12 out of 15 at Swangard Stadium will do that. Watching this 2008 team get beat at PGE Park by the Caps after the team from...

Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Martin Nash, brother of NBA player and aspiring MLS owner Steve Nash, weighs in on the MLS expansion efforts in Vancouver and Portland: “Portland“s got great support,“ he says. “I think both teams have good solid franchises in this league, and that proves to the MLS that they“re sustainable. If they don“t both get it, there“s a...

BJ, One T on TOTW Bryan Jordan and Scot Thompson were named to the prestigious USL First Division Team of the Week this week for their efforts in the Timbers' 2-1 victory over Montreal on Saturday. It is the third week in a row that Jordan has received the honor, which I believe entitles him to a free ice cream sundae at Burger King. Thompson makes the A-list for the second time this season....