Articles tagged with "portland-timbers"
Match 20: Portland Timbers 0-0 Carolina RailHawks
By Bob Kellett | July 25th, 2008Bottom Line: For the seventh straight regular season game, the Portland Timbers were unable to come away with maximum points at home. The ...
Timbers can't win games, but winning awards is no problem
By Bob Kellett | July 23rd, 2008The power of the Internets The results are in and Takayuki Suzuki has left Brandon Roy and the other Portland athletes in his dust. From ...
Byron Alvarez back with the Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | July 22nd, 2008That exhibition game against Tigres was a tryout after all and Byron Alvarez evidently passed the test. The Portland Timbers announced Tuesday that they ...
Monday Musings
By Bob Kellett | July 21st, 2008Brother, spare a defender? With Tim Karalexis likely gone for the season and Justin Thompson likely out of Thursday's game with a card accumulation suspension and ...
Match 19: Charleston Battery 2-0 Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | July 20th, 2008After a weekend in which the Timbers played two games and forced their opposition into exactly two saves (two saves in 180 minutes!), I am ...
Match 18: Portland Timbers 1-1 Atlanta Silverbacks
By Bob Kellett | July 18th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers (5-6-7) and Atlanta Silverbacks (5-4-6) played to an improbable 1-1 draw in USl First Division action on Friday ...
Portland Timbers take on the Atlanta Silverbacks
By Bob Kellett | July 17th, 2008It is the third and final encounter between the Portland Timbers and Atlanta Silverbacks on Friday evening in the Georgia (Watch online or Listen ...
Portland Timbers set to make Southern Swing
By Bob Kellett | July 17th, 2008The Tigres Tuesday was a nice diversion, but now it is back to the business at hand. The Portland Timbers travel to Atlanta and ...
Sights and Sounds from Portland Timbers v Tigres
By Bob Kellett | July 16th, 2008Byron Alvarez navigates against three defenders before laying it off to Justin Thompson who fires it home The North End celebrates Byron Alvarez is checked into the ...
Exhibition: Portland Timbers 2-0 Tigres
By Bob Kellett | July 15th, 2008The Bottom Line: Byron Alvarez made a triumphant return to the Portland, setting up a goal and scoring one himself to lead the Timbers ...
Portland Timbers close out the exhibition season against Tigres
By Bob Kellett | July 15th, 2008If it feels like we just did this, it is because we just did. For the second time in 12 nights the Portland Timbers ...
A Familiar Face Returns to the Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | July 14th, 2008The Portland Timbers have announced that former forward Byron Alvarez will play in Tuesday’s exhibition match against Tigres as a “guest player.” Kind of ...
Timbers Odds and Ends
By Bob Kellett | July 13th, 2008I hate to point this out Total losses in 2007: 5 Losses through 17 games in 2008: 6 Tigres Tales After losing to the Colorado Rapids in penalties on ...
Options, there are but a few
By Bob Kellett | July 12th, 2008Life has options. That’s the slogan of Self Enhancement, Inc., one of the many organizations in Portland doing extraordinary things for our city’s youth. ...
Match 17: Portland Timbers 0-2 Puerto Rico Islanders
By Bob Kellett | July 10th, 2008The Bottom Line: First half goals by Fabrice Noel and Josh Hansen lifted the Puerto Rico Islanders to a 2-0 victory over the Portland ...
Andrew Gregor Sent to Rochester in Three-Way Trade
By Bob Kellett | July 9th, 2008The Details: The Rhinos have acquired Portland midfielder Andrew Gregor today via a three-way trade involving the Timbers, Rochester and Carolina RailHawks. Rochester gets: Gregor, who was ...
Back to winning the league we go
By Bob Kellett | July 8th, 2008Happy face in place, a double dose of Metamucil consumed, and the reassurance that I'm Rose City Til I Die, let's move on from the ...
The Plot has been Lost
By Bob Kellett | July 8th, 2008The decision to play an exhibition match in Seattle against a Mexican team seemed like an odd one from the beginning. I can buy ...
Timbers lose a pair of exhibition matches against Monarcas Morelia
By Bob Kellett | July 7th, 2008The Portland Timbers spent their Independence Day weekend losing to Monarcas Morelia 2-0 on Thursday in Portland and 3-1 on Sunday in Seattle. The ...
Portland Timbers face Monarcas Morelia
By Bob Kellett | July 3rd, 2008It is exhibition futbol time at PGE Park with the Portland Timbers facing Monarcas Morelia on Thursday evening. While the powers that be will ...
New England Keeper Brad Knighton Loaned to Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | July 2nd, 2008Good-bye Ray Burse. Hello Brad Knighton. The New England Revolution have loaned Knighton to the Portland Timbers (why is a Seattle paper the ...
Stop, drop, and blog
By Bob Kellett | July 1st, 2008I 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 ...
Timbers Grab Bag 06.30.08
By Bob Kellett | June 30th, 2008Portland 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: ...
Timbers pick up a split on the road
By Bob Kellett | June 29th, 2008Raise 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 ...
Up Next: Carolina and Atlanta
By Bob Kellett | June 27th, 2008Those 12 days off sure were fun but now it is time to get back to business. The Portland Timbers face the Carolina RailHawks ...
The Latest on MLS to Portland
By Bob Kellett | June 26th, 2008It seems like just about every week a little more information is released regarding Merritt Paulson's efforts to bring a Major League Soccer expansion franchise ...
We're going to win the exhibition league (and probably nothing else)
By Bob Kellett | June 25th, 2008Getting a little too friendly Because playing them once at home on July 3 is not enough, the Portland Timbers will face Monarcas Morelia again on ...
New Keepers, New Injuries, New Suspensions, New Questions
By Bob Kellett | June 24th, 2008The long extended break the Portland Timbers are on was supposed to give the players time to heal their wounds and their manager time to ...
A New Central Midfielder for the Portland Timbers?
By Bob Kellett | June 20th, 2008Say 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 ...
Midseason Report Card: The Coaches, Front Office, and Others
By Bob Kellett | June 20th, 2008With the Timbers nearly halfway through their 2008 USL First Division campaign and with the team enjoying a two-week break between games, what better way ...
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