Topic: portland timbers

It is exhibition futbol time at PGE Park with the Portland Timbers facing Monarcas Morelia on Thursday evening. While the powers that be will tell you this game is about competition and putting on a good show for the fans, etc, etc, the reality is this is about the bottom line. It is about the club making a little scratch to offset the scratch that it loses playing USL-1 games. Nothing...

Good-bye Ray Burse. Hello Brad Knighton. The New England Revolution have loaned Knighton to the Portland Timbers (why is a Seattle paper the first to report this?) for the rest of the season. Knighton played for UNC-Wilmington and the Indiana Invaders before signing with the Revolution in 2007. He has zero first-team appearances to his credit and hasn't seen a whole lot of action...

Portland Timbers through 16 games... 2008: 5-5-6, 21pts, 14GF, 14GA 2007: 11-2-3, 36pts, 24GF, 10GA 2006: 5-6-5, 20pts, 16GF, 19GA 2005: 5-7-4, 19pts, 20GF, 30GA 2004: 10-6-0, 30pts, 35GF, 21GA 2003: 8-8-0, 24pts, 19GF, 19GA 2002: 5-8-3, 18pts, 17GF, 21GA 2001: 8-6-2, 26pts, 21GF, 20GA The Larry Factor Portland Timbers goals scored in games in which Lawrence Olum starts: seven...

Raise your hand if you thought the Portland Timbers season was pretty much over after Friday's 1-0 loss against the Carolina RailHawks. Both my hands are raised. I'm typing this with my nose. After a long break the Timbers pretty much played like they did during the first half of the season: they sucked. They couldn't maintain possession, they hardly generated an attack, they were boring...

The long extended break the Portland Timbers are on was supposed to give the players time to heal their wounds and their manager time to come up with some answers to the team's first half of the season mediocrity. It doesn't look like that is turning out to be the case. The Trib has the details of the bevy of challenges facing our heroes. On the injury front, Andrew Gregor will miss this...

A bunch of good folks from the Timbers Army met with the front office of the Portland Timbers today and the legendary Bickle has provided those of us who weren’t in attendance with the headlines. Let’s go through them one-by-one. 1) The FO is very happy about the relationship with the TA and with the TA's performance this year (with the usual caveat, quite understated, about...

Say hello to our new central midfielder (maybe): Mark Briggs, who joined with the Riddle-coached Outrage on May 22, is the first to move directly from Kalamazoo's upstart PDL club to the professional ranks. He's set to fly out to Portland, Ore., this Sunday, where, as long as both sides fancy each other, he'll begin play with the Timbers in United Soccer League First Division (USL-1), the...