At the end of the 2019 season, Chris Duvall was somewhere he’d never been before: the USL. Having been released by the Houston Dynamo two months before, the former New York Red Bull and Montreal Impact defender had to undergo a professional regroup with the Oklahoma City Energy, where he finished his sixth professional season.

Now, Duvall is back in Major League Soccer, signed to the Portland Timbers’ first team, and joining Breaking Lines to talk about his 2019 offseason, his path of Wake Forest to the pros, and the feeling of being in green and gold for a Providence Park opener.

Hosts Judah Newby, Jake Zivin and Joe Sleven talk about the team's opening loss to Minnesota and how they're approaching Nashville SC. They also chat with Timbers defender Jorge Villafaña, president of business Mike Golub and with Drake Hills of the Tennessean.

It’s the biggest acquisition of an already busy offseason, so big that it demanded an emergency podcast.

In the wake of the Portland Thorns’ acquisition of four-time NWSL Defender of the Year Becky Sauerbrunn, head coach Mark Parsons stopped by to talk about his newest defender, what her arrival means for the 2020 Thorns and what the team still has planned for a transformative offseason.

Bella Bixby has just returned to Portland after a loan spell in Israel, where she saw her first competitive time in goal since finishing her collegiate career at Oregon State over two years ago. Now into the third year with her hometown club, the Thorns goalkeeper is ready to fight for her first NWSL minutes, taking the another step for somebody who may be Portland’s goalkeeper of the future.

On this episode of Breaking Lines, we talk to Bixby about her time abroad, her goals for 2020, as well as her view as a soccer fan who has seen the game’s growth in Portland. And, perhaps most importantly, we meet Moose, Bixby’s three-month-old chocolate labrador.

As the 2020 MLS regular season is ready to begin, hosts Judah Newby, Jake Zivin and Joe Sleven sit down with Portland Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese, midfielder Diego Chara and get a look into Sunday's home opener opponent in Minnesota United from commentator Cal Williams.

Cameron Knowles has been part of the Timbers organization for most of the last 13 years, going from player with the Green and Gold during the United Soccer Leagues era to an assistant coach under John Spencer and Caleb Porter to, over the last two seasons, the head coach for Timbers 2.

Ahead of his third season in charge of the club’s USL team, we caught up with the former Timbers defender about how he came to the United States from New Zealand, his time at the University of Akron, his transition from the field to the sidelines, and what 2020 looks like for Timbers 2.

Ben Zemanski’s 13 years of high-level soccer cast him as part of three of the more memorable teams of the last two decades: a University of Akron squad that was one of the most talented in collegiate history; a Chivas USA group that played out the bizarre in Los Angeles’ sports shadows; and a Portland Timbers team that would claim the 2015 MLS Cup.

Now into the next phase of his life in soccer, Zemanski joins us to talk about life on The Bluff, where he is entering his second year as an assistant for the University of Portland Pilots men’s soccer team.

Host Judah Newby is joined by Timbers broadcaster Jake Zivin in studio as Zivin gives updates from his trip to preseason camp in Costa Rica. Plus, it's MLS kit release day as the duo talk through all the new team's kits and we hear an interview with Timbers goalkeeping coach Memo Valencia.

It’s the middle of the NWSL’s offseason, but with players slowly returning to Portland ahead of next month’s preseason, we were able to catch up with two of the young bright spots from the Thorns’ 2019 season.

On this episode of Breaking Lines, midfielder Gabby Seiler and fullback Madison Pogarch join us at Providence Park, updating us on an offseason of golf carts, dogs, FaceTime tag, and preparation for their second season with the Thorns.

This conversation was originally supposed to be video only, but it was too good not to include on our audio channels.

Jeff Attinella’s path back to the field from last year’s shoulder surgery may his be a work in progress, but opinions about sports remain in full health. What better time to have the Timbers goalkeeper on Breaking Lines that two days before one of the most anticipated Super Bowls in years. On this edition of the podcast, Attinella talks rehab, fatherhood, his love of Tampa Bay sports, as well as the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers this weekend, at Super Bowl LIV.