Topic: 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...

There will be a fiesta at PGE Park tonight, as the Timbers battle Mexican 1st Division team Monarcas Morelia in a friendly at 7pm. Trust me; this will be a hell of a lot more fun than walking around the Pearl District looking at inanimate objects hung on white walls. Coach Gavin Wilkinson told the Portland Tribune: "They’ve got quality, quality players who could play in most countries...

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...

Now that the Euros are over and we have a spare 15 minutes before the Big Leagues start up again, it's time for American soccer fans to do what they do best: obsess over competitions that no one else in the world (and the country? forget about it) has ever heard of. To wit, the US Open Cup, our national knock-out tournament, which continues a perpetually beleaguered and occasionally glorious...Palace Baltimore zapped the ever-hapless New York Red Bulls. Unfortunately, our hometown Portland Timbers are "concentrating on the lea...

They're better than Preston North End, Toronto FC and Gonzaga University combined The hype machine for Thursday's must-win, play-all-the-starters exhibition against Monarcas Morelia is in full gear with Portland Timbers boss Gavin Wilkinson declaring that the Mexican club is so good that they make the California Victory look like a sixth grade junior varsity squad. While I can't blame...

The Water Bureau outs the skinny dippers What San Francisco learned at the Towards Carfree Conference in Portland What is it with (non-carfree) Portlanders and bumper stickers? My favorite building downtown is finally going to be renovated . . . but will the checkerboard remain? Conference call with newest official Blazer Rudy Fernandez And a fresh update from GO Miss the Jax?...wheeling and dealing Morelia's bringing a good team, and will draw a good crowd, to face the Timbers...

I swear, I'm not his agent Continuing on the Lawrence Olum is our Savior theme....over the past two seasons Olum has started 14 regular season games for the Portland Timbers. The Timbers are 10-0-4 in those games. Staring at the Stats Goals Leaders Chris Brown - 5 Justin Thompson, Chris Bagley - 2 Five Players - 1 It is worth noting that during the Bobby Howe era the lowest scoring...

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...

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