Portland's MLS expansion wobbles along, with stadium financing taking shape (we hope), a marketing
campaign already taking shape, and the typical community-resistance and tired questions over
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Busy day today so things might be scarce for the rest of the afternoon. Sorry, but all this work is
getting in the way of my play.
This video doesn't really have anything to do with anything other than I thought it was kinda nice
looking and it was never actually used by the Timbers so it's something like a lost track.
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The return of Deep Cuts means scouring the internet for unique and off-the-beaten-path stories,
opinions, and news. It's not always easy to track down worthwhile links that go beyond what you
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Nearly 35 years of history, a 23 match winning streak and 13K in the stands on a Friday night;
basically Portland are the anti-Red Bull (even though RBNY did manage a surprise win yesterday
despite Mac Kandji and Dane Richards best efforts to thwart it at the end by being unintelligent
glory-seekers and not taking the ball to the corner).
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It's getting old folks, the losing is getting old. First the Portland game on Saturday where the
Blues lost 3-1 and then it seemed we would bring back a point from Vancouver but with only 10
minutes left Miami conceded a goal followed by another a few minutes later that sealed our fate and
might keep us away from the playoffs for yet another season.
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Time for a Watch Party folks! Miami FC is on the road and will play future MLS team and the hottest
team in the USL, the Portland Timbers, this Saturday, August 22 at 9 pm.Miami FC will be hosting
the Watch Party for all their fans at Finnegan's River located at 401 S.W. 3 Ave. in the Brickell
area downtown.
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This footage is from last week's friendly between Portland Timbers and the EPL's Burnley. I love
tradition and the fact that the Timbers have some. I'm also all for making all manner of noise
behind the goal to intimidate the visitors and push on your team. Honest.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.
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Tonite Burrito jump fence at FIU stadium only to see 300 peoples show up to a game no vato in Miami
knew was taking place. There were no signs, except for one that say "Colombian Festival" where
there was thousands of cars not far from FIU Stadium. Burrito talk to some Colombianos and tell
them to come to game.
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Miami Kickers FC tied with the Clearwater Galactics Amazons 2-2 at St Leo College Wednesday
afternoon keeping the Kickers in the mix for first place with two matches left. This is the second
match this week for both teams that ends 2-2.
Our good friends and future USL rivals at Against the Run of Play (Tampa) have a great piece
detailing the game.
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Miami FC Defender #6 Zourab Tsiskaridze best known to fans as "Zee" is said to have saved a child
from drowning. No details are known about the incident but we'll get you the full scoop. This
proves Zee is a hero on and off the field. He's also a good free kicker and has already scored for
the Blues.
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Hola Futbol fans! Today Burrito come to you very enojado with Miami Fans. On Friday Burrito go to
Gold Cup and see almost 18,000 vatos fill up FIU stadium and Burrito was happy eating Arepas,
talking in espanish to all the ladies (Burrito get mucho telefono numbers!). So Burrito think to
self, this good time for Miami FC to put flyers on cars!
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"With key players such as Diego Serna out, Miami FC continued its recent strong play and defeated
Vancouver 2-1 at FIU Stadium." Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald
Things are looking good for the Blues on the field as they remain unbeaten at FIU Stadium. Miami
looked strong in the first half and could have increased the score if their players had better aim.
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The local Fox affiliate in Portland did a piece on the Timbers/Real Salt Lake young'un Alex Nimo. I
love the loan move on RSL's part and it would be nice to see more MLS clubs do this with their
prospects so long as they are getting to actually play with the USL clubs. No sense sending
somebody somewhere else to ride oine when they could do that at home.
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By now some of you may be have me pegged for a closet Timbers fan. And I totally am (until 2011).
But even if you couldn't give a rat's a** about USL1 you have to love a town selling out a US Open
Cup match --there where even SCALPERS about-- in a stadium that is not the local high school
ground.
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Ain't no drama like PDX stadium drama. Hot on the heels of Merritt Paulson's withdrawl of one
baseball relocation proposal one of the Portland City Councilmen who voted for the ordinance to
bring Major League Soccer to Portland has now said that he's going to vote against it if it means
losing the city's baseball team.
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After we face the Minnesota Thunder Tuesday, June 30 at7:35 p.m. CT, we will then play either
Seattle Sounders FC or the Portland Timbers. The match will take place on Tuesday, July 7. If we
beat the Thunder and Portland wins, we will host the match at 7:30 p.m. CT at Shawnee Mission North
High School.
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Damn, if ever there was a reason to broadcast a Lamar Hunt US Open Cup match that is not the final
this is it. Portland won their second round match last night vs. some PDL side or other and will
now host sworn enemy Seattle Sounders at PGE Park on July 1st. We thought the Rose City-Jet City
rivalry was on ice on until 2011 but I guess beef waits for no one, least of all the guy making
schedules for the USOC.
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The Portland stadium saga is now in what feels like its 300th week, and it does not appear that a
resolution is in sight. The city and those opposed to building a baseball stadium in the Lents...
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With Seattle out of the picture (for now) Portland and Vancouver have only each other to fight with
for the Cascadian USL dominance. Major League Soccer's current fiances played on Saturday night and
as per usual it was a heated affair.
With Vancouver's defense performing in a manner that could be described as being inspired by the
non-success of the French Maginot line, Portland had a slew of chances and this could have easily
been 5-0 instead of 2-0 if their finishing was as good as the Whitecaps back line was bad.
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Yet more in the continuing saga of the Portland stadium efforts. Don Garber has now appealed
directly to Dan Saltzman, a City Commissioner and the man with the swing vote that may hold the
future of...
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And so it continues out in Timbers country. The dissenting voices on the PGE Park
renovation/Portland Beavers stadium issues are already both loud and relentless, and it appears
that they have new...
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Something to read while you watch Milan players breaking the speed limit... Dirty Tackle has Inter
and Roma players doing the same (except Alberto Aquilani, who breaks all the stereotypes by 1.
staying under the speed limit and 2. driving a Smart Car.) But these guys go even faster (Auto
Evolution) Our reader-voted Champions League XI (CL Offside) ESPN360 [.
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For the sake of showing both sides to the story, I'd like to reprint in full the Timbers Army's
response (courtesy of Finns Wake) to the OregonLive piece I linked to in an earlier post today. I'm
certainly not taking sides on the issue, I just feel compelled to share both views on this.
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Someone wrote a letter to the Portland Timbers front office asking the Timber's Army "where's the
line?" Now I don't bring this up as a condemnation of the TA nor do a I agree with many of the
points in the letter. I only bring it up because for me personally it's an interesting issue that I
will soon have to battle; how do I integrate my son into the real, passionate culture of the game
without having to explain to my wife just exactly why our son would like to fly over D.
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In some weird, nonsensical way Rochester Rhinos are the LA Galaxy of USL1. In the late 90's/early
2000's they were the "model franchise" that won championships and trophies (3 league titles and the
US Open Cup between 1998-2001) and seemed destined to take their club to a higher level, that level
being Major League Soccer.
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It was made official on Monday, the Philadelphia team joining Major League Soccer in 2010 will be
known as Philadelphia Union. And they will have a pretty kick-ass logo (left) which is explained in
more detail on their website. Philadelphia will be joined in 2011 by teams from Portland and
Vancouver, giving MLS a grand total [.
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Just wanted to quickly share an interesting tidbit from a Timbers-related article I came across
today. The stadium drama continues in Portland, and NewsChannel 8 is reporting some contention
over...
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It's funny how the news cycle works. We hear about something, it reaches some sort of logical
conclusion, and we move quickly on to the next story. This is true of both consumers and
distributors...
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It turns out that HVS, a sports and entertainment consulting firm, put a nice little presentation
on MLS finances together for the Portland 2011 bid. There are some interesting tidbits in there,
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So last week, MLS announced teams' number 17 and 18 that will join MLS in the 2011 season. Those
two teams are Portland and Vancouver, who ended up beating out St. Louis and Ottawa for those two
spots. While both cities have current history with teams (Portland with the Timbers and Vancouver
with the Whitecaps) that can date back in one form or another to the old NASL days, I'm
disappointed in these two additions.
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