Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and read more

Gavin creates a nice link between last year's squad and what we are doing this year. His ambition, energy and passion for the game will be a valuable asset to the Timbers and to the soccer community.

Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would read more

Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .

Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about read more

Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.

You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.

just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me read more

just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.

For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.

For whatever reason, we wouldn't pull the trigger. We weren't being aggressive.

Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights read more

Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as read more

Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.