Sports Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t   More

News Tensions turned nasty on Sunday between the Portland Timbers and San Jose Earthquakes—both on the pitch, where Earthquakes striker Alan Gordon uttered a homophobic slur while being ejected, and outside the stadium, where Earthquakes fans smashed in the windshield of a driver who held up a Timbers scarf. But those incidents overshadow a more established war that may have turned violent last night: ...   More

News Portland's most intense soccer fans are seeing their impact go international. The New York Times reports that Timbers Army members have gotten behind an effort to save a once-storied Spanish team, Real Oviedo, that has fallen on hard times and is now selling shares to keep it out of bankruptcy. The commitment here has been so intense that Sherrilynn Rawson, one board member of the 107ist, the ...   More

Sports The chants rose from Jeld-Wen Field’s Section 107 like steam.  On the field, an amateur soccer team from California had come to town and was in the process of beating a Major League Socce   More

Cover Story All Images WW Photo IllustrationsDavid Wu’s tiger suit was the tip-off that 2011 was going to be a strange one. The year opened with a sitting congressman posing in a child’s orange-and-black    More

Cover Story No one should have more power when the Portland Timbers play at Jeld-Wen Field than Merritt Paulson. He bought the team in 2007, built it into a Major League Soccer   More

News Avoiding the rapture didn’t save Portland from punishment Saturday night. The team had hell to pay from referee Edvin Jurisevic, who shrugged off multiple bludgeonings delivered by the Columbus Crew.--- But even if the team is sore on Sunday, it can thank its blessings for escaping the night with a 1-0 victory. Plagued by several no-calls and some physical play from Columbus, the Timbers were able ...   More

News Several dozen people identifying themselves as members of the Timbers Army engaged in a mass bout of "cyber-bullying" against three fellow fans earlier this week. Officials with the Portland Timbers, who are days away from the franchise's Major League Soccer home opener April 14 after starting the inaugural season on the road, said the team is investigating the abuse from self-described members ...   More

News Last night's sold-out soccer game between the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders has fans preparing for more big crowds at PGE Park in 2011, when the Timbers officially join the Sounders in Major League Soccer competition. In the meantime, the Timbers' biggest fans, the Timbers Army, are taking steps to prepare for another development: the creation of a new nonprofit group in Portland dedicated ...   More