It’s the four-decades-plus Cascadia rivalry everybody seems prone to overlook, no matter how many times the Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps keep giving them reason not to.
Compared to how the Portland Timbers stir our city’s soccer passions – even in down years for that derby – the Whitecaps and Sounders lately seem to trail even Canada-U.S. trade negotiations on the mutual annoyance scale.
Which is strange, given the Whitecaps just played the Sounders in the playoffs last fall while the Timbers haven’t done that in five years. It wasn’t a quiet conference semifinal either, with the teams nearly brawling in the opener while B.