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Dougherty, Morgan goals give Thorns Cascadia triumph
PORTLAND, Ore. – Bouncing back from their opening day draw in Kansas City, Thorns FC saw goals from Marian Dougherty and Alex Morgan lift the team to a 2-1 result against Seattle Reign FC,
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Thorns hope to ‘improve on everything’ against Seattle
PORTLAND, Ore. – Five months from now, we may look back on Thorns FC’s 1-1 final at FC Kansas City and see a positive result. The Blues have one of the deeper starting XI’s
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Star power must meet expectations for Thorns FC
PORTLAND, Ore. — Cindy Parlow Cone may have said “We all know soccer games aren’t won on paper” 20 times this preseason. Of course, that isn’t an exact number. It may have been much
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Five things we know about the Portland Thorns
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Thorns have already become known for their superstar talent, but on Saturday night, with those stars away on international duty, Portland used their only scheduled preseason game to tell secrets
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Thorns FC defeat U. of Portland 2-1 in preseason
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Thorns may have controlled the 90 minutes Saturday against the University of Portland, but the path to the franchise’s first preseason win wasn’t an entirely smooth one. A first
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Q&A with Seattle Reign FC GM Amy Carnell
On Dec. 21, Seattle Reign FC named Laura Harvey their first head coach in club history, a small piece of history overshadowed by Harvey’s backstory. Only 32 years old, Harvey is coming off consecutive
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XI from ’12: [No. 9] The best club team of all-time
Olympique Lyonnais Feminine have established themselves as the best women’s club team of all time, completing a 2012 that’s left us in need of new standards to measure their excellence. With a perfect year
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Destination Cascadia
PORTLAND, Ore. – The crowd of 10,042 was a disappointment by Timbers’ standards, Portland’s Major League Soccer franchise having sold out every first division game over their two years at Jeld-Wen Field, but given
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The under-appreciated rise of Alex Morgan
Because the hype around Alex Morgan always cast her the next big U.S. Women’s National Team thing, it’s easy to overlook how far she’s come in the last year. While her performance on the
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