With just one chilly weekend separating the Portland Timbers from the start of their thirteenth season in Major League Soccer on Monday night against Sporting Kansas City at Providence Park, the dust has hardly settled from one of the most tumultuous periods in the club’s history. Last October, an investigation conducted by U.S. Soccer found that Timbers and Portland Thorns owner Merritt Paulson and then-President of Soccer Gavin Wilkinson helped cover up and perpetuate the.