News The scene was what every soccer fan in Portland dreams of: nearly 12,000 people streaming into PGE Park, flying the team colors and blowing horns in support of their squad, and begging players for aut ... More
Goooal!: Latino Fans
The Timbers fight to attract—and keep—new spectators.
News The scene was what every soccer fan in Portland dreams of: nearly 12,000 people streaming into PGE Park, flying the team colors and blowing horns in support of their squad, and begging players for aut ... More
Broadcast Dues
While Portland Beavers go up to the major leagues, the team’s broadcaster soldiers on.
News Nobody really wants to be in baseball’s minor leagues and traveling to “hot spots” like Fresno, Calif., and Round Rock, Texas. Yet as the Portland Beavers gear up for what’s us ... More
Billet, Sweet Billet
Off the ice with your average Portland Winter Hawk in his adopted home.
Featured Stories It’s one thing to have a teenager in your house, but things can get really weird if you happen to be hosting a young, athletic foreigner with a certain amount of notoriety. Consider Randy Malin; ... More
When in Rome
It’s Chad in Portland—but 2 million radio listeners already knew that.
Featured Stories “Chad in Portland” figures he’s taken care of “Mike in Wichitard,” who has descended into farm animal “smack” and keeps getting run by the “Pimp.” ... More
Cold As Ice
A longtime local small business hits hard times. Will it skate away?
News When the current Portland Winter Hawks season picked up where the last one left off—namely, in the gutter of the Western Hockey League—players and fans knew something had to change. But th ... More
PDX’s Ball Bearings
Trying to make sense of what’s next for the Timbers and Beavers.
News Portland Beavers and Timbers owner Merritt Paulson hasn’t taken long to try a shake-up of the two minor-league teams he bought last spring. He’s been meeting with the commissioner of Major ... More
Touchdown, Jesus
Who says you can’t worship God in between wings and a beer on a Sunday?
News The way Mike Unverzagt sees it, Jesus said in Matthew 28:18-19, “Go into all the world and make disciples”—he didn’t say, “Open a church and hope folks show up.” So ... More
Cain Remains Able
With new baseball ownership in Portland, an old face remains.
News The Portland Beavers may have new ownership in 34-year-old Merritt Paulson, but 63-year-old Jack Cain will remain a fixture with the minor league team—even if nobody's real clear on his job desc ... More
Jerry Glanville
PSU's new football coach isn't "young," but he's plenty "creative."
Q & A Jerry Glanville isn't exactly one of the "young creatives" progressive Portland is famous for attracting. Instead, he's a 65-year-old, avowedly apolitical, cowboy-hat-wearing race car owner who's bee ... More
Looking up
What's new this soccer season? Better video, a buttoned-down army, a "Beckham Factor" and oh yeah, maybe a better team.
News When he took over as coach and general manager of the Portland Timbers in September, Gavin Wilkinson inherited a franchise in chaos. After a 2006 season with only seven wins in 28 games and three shu ... More
Top Articles from Paul Gerald
Ill-starred
Why Portland never gets the NBA All-Star Game. Jerry Glanville
PSU's new football coach isn't "young," but he's plenty "creative." PDX’s Ball Bearings
Trying to make sense of what’s next for the Timbers and Beavers. Broadcast Dues
While Portland Beavers go up to the major leagues, the team’s broadcaster soldiers on. Touchdown, Jesus
Who says you can’t worship God in between wings and a beer on a Sunday? Billet, Sweet Billet
Off the ice with your average Portland Winter Hawk in his adopted home. When in Rome
It’s Chad in Portland—but 2 million radio listeners already knew that. Looking up
What's new this soccer season? Better video, a buttoned-down army, a "Beckham Factor" and oh yeah, maybe a better team. Chris Agnello
The new Timbers GM and coach kicks it on whether soccer will ever be more than a mainstream afterthought. Cain Remains Able
With new baseball ownership in Portland, an old face remains.
Why Portland never gets the NBA All-Star Game. Jerry Glanville
PSU's new football coach isn't "young," but he's plenty "creative." PDX’s Ball Bearings
Trying to make sense of what’s next for the Timbers and Beavers. Broadcast Dues
While Portland Beavers go up to the major leagues, the team’s broadcaster soldiers on. Touchdown, Jesus
Who says you can’t worship God in between wings and a beer on a Sunday? Billet, Sweet Billet
Off the ice with your average Portland Winter Hawk in his adopted home. When in Rome
It’s Chad in Portland—but 2 million radio listeners already knew that. Looking up
What's new this soccer season? Better video, a buttoned-down army, a "Beckham Factor" and oh yeah, maybe a better team. Chris Agnello
The new Timbers GM and coach kicks it on whether soccer will ever be more than a mainstream afterthought. Cain Remains Able
With new baseball ownership in Portland, an old face remains.
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