Unfortunately we don’t get to play Columbus Crew as an away match this year so there’s no trip here in 2012.

Recent posts about Columbus Crew:

• Match Report: Brunner Spurns the Crew

  Osama Bin Laden was killed, Oprah filmed her last show, and the planet survived a rapture prophecy. All of these things have happened since a Timber that isn’t a central defender scored a goal. Usually when a club goes the better part of a month without any of their forwards, midfielders, or outside backs adding to their account, they make a beeline to the bottom of the table. Not your Portland Timbers, however. They have taken seven points out of nine in the midst of such a stretch.

• TA Away Game Travel Guide to Columbus

  Timbers fans are lucky to have quite the resource for this week’s away game travel guide in Timbers defender Eric Brunner.

• Timbers Can’t Capitalize, Crash in Columbus

  The Timbers got back to their struggling ways on Saturday, as they again snatched defeat from the jaws of a positive result in Columbus, falling 1-0 to the Crew on a sticky evening in central Ohio.