(in which the Thorns make good with their last full roster until nearly September) The Thorns played the first-place Chicago Red Stars at home on June 22 and then flew across the country to play mid-table Orlando on the 26th. The results were a nervous 2-0 win in the first match and a dramatic come-from-behind […]

(In which the Thorns show their class outside Oregon, only to get some bad news back home.) Our Thorns went on the road to play two distant matches against the top two teams in the league. Both outings were excellent with a 1-1 draw at Chicago and then five days later a 2-0 win versus […]

Several folks have asked about the upcoming schedules and potential absences. I consolidated the schedule for every national team represented on the Thorns from July 1 to the end of the season. Optimistically, I am sticking by my preseason projection that Amandine Henry joins the Thorns for the July 2 home match and therefore that […]

The Thorns survived a scare on Sunday in one of the more exciting and tense nil-nil draws you could ask to see. The team lost half its starters to national team duty yet managed to fight the nearly full-strength Seattle Reign to a stalemate at Providence Park. It is clear that Mark Parsons has brought […]

The Thorns finally returned to Providence Park on Saturday and what a return it was! The opponent was the Washington Spirit, tops in the league. We’d recently played them to a nil-nil draw in the wilds of Maryland. Given that the Thorns had scored only five goals in five games while the Sprit had conceded […]

Catfight in Seattle by Richard Hamje Have you ever watched two cats face off? Lots of posturing, hissing, back-arching as the opponents watchfully circle each other. A sudden flurry of claws and teeth that quickly settles back into attentive circling. Sometimes a little blood is drawn but most often the combatants simply walk away with […]