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You couldn’t score in a Texas…
By: Bob Kellett |
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August 23, 2003. You remember that historic date, right? That was the last time the Portland Timbers played a soccer match in the Republic of Texas. The Timbers lost to the El Paso Patriots 3-1 in a game played in front of 1,735. No surprise that a team drawing 1,735 for [...]
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US Open Cup: Portland Timbers 1-2 Seattle Sounders
By: Bob Kellett | 9 Comments
Bottom Line: First half goals by Roger Levesque and Stephen King lifted the Seattle Sounders to a 2-1 victory over the Portland Timbers in a US Open Cup match played in front of 16,382 at PGE Park. Levesque, a former member of the USL Sounders, stunned the packed stadium with a goal in [...]
A Packed Stadium, An Old Rivalry, A New Beginning, Sappy Headlines
By: Bob Kellett | 8 Comments
It is difficult to imagine a better way of renewing a rivalry that dates back more than thirty years. More than 16,000 people will be jammed into PGE Park (imagine if this was being played in front of 2,000 at Starfire!) this evening to watch the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders go at it [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsPortland-Seattle US Open Cup Match Nearing Sellout
By: Bob Kellett | 1 Comment
The word from the boss is that there are only 2,300 tickets left for Wednesday’s game against the Seattle Sounders. Full stadium*. Amazing. Now would be the time to secure your spot in PGE Park, you slacker, you.
*Full=16,000 capacity
*Full=Happy scalpers
Category: Timbers Team NewsAnd so it begins again on Sunday
By: Bob Kellett | 1 Comment
By the time they take the pitch at 5pm on Sunday the Portland Timbers will have had eight days off since their last game, a 5-1 drubbing of the Minnesota Thunder. Eight days off is roughly the same as 3.75 dog lives in the USL First Division. Witness the four games in seven [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsWell that was quite a run
By: Bob Kellett | 7 Comments
Half the starting midfield was out with injuries. The travel itinerary included Kitsap, Cary, Charleston, Santa Rosa, and finally Portland. Five games in 11 days. A pair of tricky US Open Cup games on the road against lower division clubs. A pair of league games over a three day stretch in [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsPortland Timbers face Sonoma County Sol in US Open Cup
By: Bob Kellett | 23 Comments
Two of the hottest teams in the world (hyperbole, but how many leagues actually play in June?) will square off in the second round of the US Open Cup on Tuesday. The Sonoma County Sol host the Portland Timbers at the infamous Ernie Nevers Field in Santa Rosa, California. The Sol, an amateur [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsTimbers extend unbeaten streak to ten league games
By: Bob Kellett | 3 Comments
Ho hum. Just another Kitsap, WA – Cary, NC – Charleston, SC road trip. Three games in five days. Nearly 3,00 miles in travel. This would be unusual if it weren’t the USL First Division where the intended league purpose is to render its players useless by the age of 25.
Useless [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsTen games in and looking good
By: Bob Kellett | 8 Comments
Don’t look now but the Portland Timbers are one-third of the way through their 2009 campaign. Time flies when you go weeks without blogging. Apologies and all that. Ten games into the season seems like as good of a time as any to evaluate where things stand. We know that the [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsLet’s Play Two: Timbers head to Puerto Rico
By: Bob Kellett | 15 Comments
Toughest road trip of the year. Two games in three nights against one of the top team in the league in the type of heat and humidity that makes most Portlanders wilt. That is the fun that the Portland Timbers (2-1-2, 8pts) have in store for them this weekend when they travel to [...]
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