Articles tagged with "timbers-team-news"
A Monumental Moment
By Bob Kellett | March 3rd, 2009Forget about Miami dropping out of the MLS expansion race. The big news of the day is that the Portland Timbers have released the ...
Timbers Add an Offensive Defender and a Defensive Forward
By Bob Kellett | February 27th, 2009On Thursday we learned that a pair of 32-year-old players will be on the 2009 Portland Timbers roster. The club officially announced the signing ...
Timbers Tidbits 02.26.09
By Bob Kellett | February 26th, 2009* If you are in the right place at the right time you might be asked to tryout for the Timbers. In this case ...
Timbers Tidbits 02.25.09
By Bob Kellett | February 25th, 2009* Final tally: 26 in favor of MLS in Portland, 5 opposed. Any questions? (Portland Mercury), (SoccerCityUSA), (Oregonlive), and a ringing endorsement from Portland ...
Let's set the bar really, really low
By Bob Kellett | February 23rd, 2009Last year around this time I fired up this little ol' blog and made a huge mistake. The mistake was telling you that I ...
A Storied Tradition of Mediocrity
By Bob Kellett | September 25th, 2008Owners, coaches and players have come and gone in the eight seasons the modern Portland Timbers have been in existence. Only one person has ...
Gavin Wilkinson to return as Portland Timbers manager in 2009
By Bob Kellett | September 24th, 2008We learn today that Gavin Wilkinson will return as the manager of the Portland Timbers. After a dismal season in which his team finished ...
Portland Timbers Face Charleston Battery Thursday
By Bob Kellett | September 10th, 2008Another big game is on the horizon in the great race to finish somewhere between seventh and eleventh place in the USL First Division table. ...
Timbers Fall Flat against Rochester and Montreal
By Bob Kellett | September 8th, 2008Two road games. Two more losses. Two more games in which this 2008 Portland Timbers team failed to find the goal and failed ...
The Biggest Game Ever: Portland Timbers face Miami FC Blues
By Bob Kellett | September 4th, 2008Remember all the piss poor performances and squandered points at home earlier this season? The result is this game. The Portland Timbers face ...
Bryan Jordan Recalled by LA Galaxy; Harrison to start in Goal
By Bob Kellett | September 3rd, 2008Just what a team fighting for its playoff life needs. From the LA Galaxy notes: Bruce Arena has recalled three players from their loan assignments ...
Some Additional MLS to Portland Press Conference Thoughts (Updated: Media Coverage)
By Bob Kellett | September 3rd, 2008It is hard to capture everything that happens during a live event, especially when you type with two fingers like I do. A few ...
A Must-Win Game for Both Sides
By Bob Kellett | September 2nd, 2008Miami's boss on his team upcoming road matches against the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders: ''There is no other way of looking at it -- we ...
Feelin' the Blues
By Bob Kellett | September 1st, 2008The Miami FC Blues have won once in their past six games and twice in their past nine games. The Portland Timbers have won ...
The playoff scenarios will make your head hurt
By Bob Kellett | August 26th, 2008The original schedule had the Portland Timbers facing the Montreal Impact on Wednesday, August 27. That game has been pushed back until Monday, September ...
Timbers lose in Vancouver. Again. Playoff chances fading
By Bob Kellett | August 24th, 2008The Vancouver Whitecaps can't move out of Swangard Stadium soon enough as far as the Portland Timbers are concerned. The Timbers continued their amazing ...
Portland Timbers face the Vancouver Whitecaps
By Bob Kellett | August 22nd, 2008There have been times in previous seasons when I thought the Portland Timbers would travel to Vancouver to play the Whitecaps and they would come ...
Martin Nash on Portland; Bryan Little on Next Season
By Bob Kellett | August 21st, 2008Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Martin Nash, brother of NBA player and aspiring MLS owner Steve Nash, weighs in on the MLS expansion efforts in Vancouver and ...
Timbers Grab Bag 08.20.08
By Bob Kellett | August 20th, 2008BJ, One T on TOTW Bryan Jordan and Scot Thompson were named to the prestigious USL First Division Team of the Week this week for their ...
Past Performance not a true indicator of Future Peformance
By Bob Kellett | August 19th, 2008A date to remember May 23, 2004. For the first and only time the Portland Timbers won a regular season game against the Vancouver Whitecaps ...
Six, Six, Six
By Bob Kellett | August 18th, 2008The Portland Timbers have six games remaining in their 2008 schedule. Six games between now and September 20. That doesn't sound so bad, ...
Portland Timbers host the Montreal Impact
By Bob Kellett | August 15th, 2008There are two ways to approach this. The first is to look at the table, look at the Timbers' form over the past couple ...
Boot, Boot, Boot the Ball
By Bob Kellett | August 14th, 2008A bobblehead for each goal he's scored Since you undoubtedly will be in the stadium early to take part in the educational chalk talk session being ...
Portland here, Portland there
By Bob Kellett | August 13th, 2008It would have taken the consumption of a lot of beer to convince me before the start of this season that 20-some games into the ...
When Chalk Talks
By Bob Kellett | August 12th, 2008Seven games against six opponents. That is what remains of the 2008 Portland Timbers regular season. Montreal (2), Vancouver, Miami, Rochester, Charleston and ...
The Final Push
By Bob Kellett | August 11th, 2008It is all about lowering expectations. Before the 2008 Portland Timbers campaign began I thought the team had added enough quality pieces to compete ...
Out of Office
By Bob Kellett | July 25th, 2008The Portland Timbers Offside is suspending operations for two weeks for routine honeymooning maintenance. Please check back on August 11 for more grammatically incorrect ...
Portland Timbers face the Carolina RailHawks
By Bob Kellett | July 24th, 2008USL First Division action returns to PGE Park on Thursday evening when the Portland Timbers attempt to do something they haven't done since April 26: ...
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 ...
Portland Timbers Odds and Ends
By Bob Kellett | July 22nd, 2008Number of games the Timbers were shutout in a season 2006 - 13 2008 - 9* 2007 - 9 2003 - 8 *11 games still left in the season The more ...
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