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After competing in Berkeley, Calif., at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational last weekend, the Portland State track and field squad has just one meet left before the Big Sky Conference Championships.

I’m a semi-defender of the NBA’s predictability. I understand that the conglomeration of superstars onto a few teams means that only a handful of them have any real chance of winning a championship. The seven-game playoff format further fuels this determinism; to beat a team four out of seven times, you really just have to be better than them, and that distinction is fairly easy to spot.

Continuing a theme for the club this year, on Saturday the Portland Timbers managed to claw their way back into a game yet again, tallying a big road win over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday. The win stretches Portland’s unbeaten streak to six, with the Timbers earning victories in three of their last four matches and jumping back up to the No. 3 spot in the MLS Western Conference.

With a victory at the Rose Garden on Friday night, the Portland Winterhawks claimed the WHL Western Conference championship over the Kamloops Blazers. Winterhawks winger Ty Rattie earned MVP honors in the series, compiling four goals and eight assists in five games. With the win, Portland became the first WHL team in a decade to take three straight conference titles, matching the success of the Red Deer Rebels from 2001–03.

The Portland State women’s golf team made quite a run at the Big Sky Conference Championship but came up just short in Chandler, Ariz., as a late push by Northern Arizona University pushed the Lumberjacks past the Vikings for the title. The two schools were tied going into the final round of play, but Northern Arizona quickly took the lead, and a late string of birdies by sophomore A Ram Choi was not enough to make up the difference.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 Softball Vikings 1 Sacramento State 0 Top performers Brittany Hendrickson: 1-for-3, double, RBI Sacramento State 8 Vikings 0 Top performers Becca Bliss: 1-for-3, double WHL Western Conference…

For more than two months, the American public has been without its beloved gridiron entertainment. Instead, the focus right now is on the NBA playoffs and the beginning of Major League Baseball.

The Portland Timbers embarked on a trip to California to face off against the San Jose Earthquakes for the second week in a row on Sunday. Fresh off a loss at Jeld-Wen Field on April 14, the Earthquakes were looking to notch their first win in four matches.

The Portland Thorns hosted their first-ever home game in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Soccer League on Sunday, bringing an astounding 16,479 spectators to Jeld-Wen Field for a matchup with the Seattle Reign FC. Assessing the incredible support the team is already enjoying this year, Thorns head coach Cindy Parlow Cone said, “As soon as I landed here in Portland in mid-January, the reception I have received and this team has received from Portland has just been unbelievable. They really came out tonight and they were the 12th person on the field—it’s hard for a team to play against 12 people.”

Growing up a multisport athlete, Morgan began playing soccer competitively at the age of 14. Within three years, while in high school, she was called up to the U-17 women’s national team and began attending the University of California, Berkeley, shortly after. She was the team’s leading scorer at Cal, ending her collegiate career third on the school’s all-time list in both goals and points. While at Berkeley she joined the U-20 women’s national team and was a member of the squad that competed at the 2008 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile, where she scored a game-winning goal against North Korea that was voted best goal of the tournament and second-best goal of the year by FIFA.

Cooks are fond of saying that “an ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” Those who follow sports may have noticed that a similar mentality seems to have permeated the collective mindset.