Sounders
Everyone on this Sounders club has major aura, as they showed when they won an instant (albeit very messy) classic Heritage Cup match on Wednesday. The question is: can they take this all the way to the Shield?
Timbers
Draws, by definition, usually occur when neither team does enough to win a game of soccer. That cannot be said of the Portland Timbers’ 2-2 draw in rainy Montreal on Wednesday night. Both teams definitely did enough to win, but neither left the field of play with 3 points in
Timbers
Saturday night was pretty fun! The Portland Timbers turned all of their chances into goals and decimated a hopeless Sporting Kansas City side at Providence Park. That 6-0 win set a team record for margin of victory in a MLS game. However, it’s time to get back on the
As the sun rises on another weekend chock-full of MLS matches, an ideological battle wages in Portland's neighboring city 6 hours to the north. The Vancouver Whitecaps are in a war for their own right to survive. And this battle is inching closer and closer to a conclusion;
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0-5. 1-4. Those two scorelines hung over the city of Portland for almost two years. One sent the Portland Timbers into a reckoning; a season-ending disaster that appeared out of seemingly nowhere but was subtly teased throughout the fall of 2024. They had an immediate chance to rectify that humiliation
The Rose City Breakdown Episode 10:00/3298.41× 2026 is truly a momentous year for women's sports in the Rose City. 2026 also marks the first year where the state and city will have three professional women's sports teams: Portland Thorns (NWSL), Portland Fire (WNBA)
Two years ago, the Portland Timbers defeated the Colorado Rapids 4-1 in their season opener at Providence Park. Last year, the Portland Timbers lost to the Vancouver Whitecaps by the same scoreline in their season opener at Providence Park. Like both of their previous season openers at Phil Neville, tonight’
Big occasions demand proper attire. You cannot show up to a wedding in sweatpants. There’s an official uniform for college graduations, as freshly-minted graduates don caps and robes to walk across a large stage to collect their diplomas. Providence Park is no stranger to the latter event, having hosted
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The Reign still haven't scored a goal since late March, and after the loss to Washington, the team was torn in two directions between defensive optimism and attacking malaise.
The Sounders haven't had the best go of it in the last two games, drawing against two teams they should have beaten and losing quite a bit of ground in the Shield race. What does Saturday's game say about the team?
Sometimes the best way to respond after a brutal loss is to simply win the next game. However, on a warm spring night in Portland, the Timbers avenged their previous weekend's defeat to RSL by demolishing Sporting Kansas City to the tune of a club-record margin of victory.
The 2026 Portland Timbers are hanging by a thread. Sure, they’ve managed to win 2 out of their last 4 games, but the results surrounding those wins are setting off alarm bells the size of Big Ben. Last weekend’s performance in Salt Lake City was uniquely awful. However,
The Portland Timbers have finally done it. After months of asking for some semblance of consistency, they’ve finally been able to deliver. A clear pattern has emerged, with another one already present. Finally, the consternation and frustration of the fanbase can be firmly put to bed. In an ironic
Nearly 20,000 fans poured into Providence Park on Wednesday night as first place San Diego Wave faced off against the second place Portland Thorns in an explosive midweek matchup. Sporting the captain’s armband was Jessie Fleming who carried the same quiet confidence which was long associated with her
For the third week in a row, the Portland Timbers are on the road. They will head to Utah to face Real Salt Lake tomorrow after a last-gasp 2-1 victory last weekend in San Diego. One question is on everyone’s mind: can the momentum travel for the first time
As the sun rises on another weekend chock-full of MLS matches, an ideological battle wages in Portland's neighboring city 6 hours to the north. The Vancouver Whitecaps are in a war for their own right to survive. And this battle is inching closer and closer to a conclusion;
Losing 3-0 and dropping three points at home is never the desired outcome, but the flatfooted start and the injury to one of the big team leaders are bigger worries going forward.
It was a game many previous iterations of the Sounders would have let fall to a draw or even a disastrous loss. And yet the Sounders held out the win, even without Cristian Roldan.
The Portland Timbers entered tonight’s game against San Diego with two unfortunate streaks weighing heavily on their shoulders. One of them was left behind on the patchy surface of Snapdragon Stadium. They failed to keep a clean sheet, but they’re celebrating a win away from home for the
“I don’t do revenge. I think that’s very shortsighted. If you get clouded with that kind of emotion, you don’t have clarity of mind.” That’s how Phil Neville opened his Thursday press conference ahead of this weekend’s game against San Diego; the team that the
