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2026 Portland Thorns season preview with Expected Own Goals' (xOG) Evan Davis and Eric Morgan
Previewing the Thorns' 2026 season with the Expected Own Goals Podcast!
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Emergency Pod! The Portland Thorns have a new Coach?!
According to ESPN's Jeff Kassouf, the Portland Thorns have hired former Tottenham Hotspur manager, Robert Vilahamn. The Rose City Breakdown's Phuoc Nguyen and Melina Gaspar discuss the hire, the timing, and how Jeff Agoos failed his first true test as GM. The duo also provides a
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Welcome to The Rose City Breakdown!
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)
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Alex Bowen
Our Vancouver Whitecaps photographer! Alex was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada. From a young age he was interested in sports; playing soccer, baseball, and hockey at various points in his childhood. As a teenager, while living overseas, his parents gave him a camera so that he could run
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Brooke Neiman
Our Portland Thorns photographer! Brooke is a Portland-based photographer and self-proclaimed, certified silly-billy. She aspires to capture all of the fleeting, energetic, beautiful moments that make women's soccer so special.
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Lily Crane
Our Portland Thorns writer! Lily writes about the Portland Thorns at Cascadia FC. She also covers and commentates on Oregon Ducks sports and other high school athletics in the state of Oregon. Lily has spent the past couple of seasons as the play-by-play voice for Oregon women’s soccer in
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Leroy Freeman
One of our Seattle Sounders photographers! After getting injured at my 9–5, Leroy was out of work for six months. During that time, he saw a local photographer shoot one of his daughter’s track meets, and something clicked. He loved how the photographer froze motion and emotion in
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Michael Martinez
Michael is the co-owner, managing editor, and one of the Seattle Sounders writers here at Cascadia FC! Michael graduated from the University of Oregon in 2019 with a Bachelor's in Journalism. After stints in the Esports arena, Michael transitioned into the sports realm, covering the Vancouver Whitecaps for
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It was Time for a Move
Cascadia FC is on the move from Substack to Ghost!
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Dropped
A loss with a point attached.
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Portland Timbers-San Jose Earthquakes Preview (6/13)
Revenge, first and foremost. And a taste of history to boot.
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Portland Timbers-St. Louis CITY Preview (6/8)
Sunday Night Soccer in a furnace.