Sporting KC win for first time in preseason, beat Portland Timbers, 1-0

Sporting KC won a meaningless preseason soccer game on Friday night. The Portland Timbers were no match for this bruised and battered Sporting squad.

Soony Saad injured, leaves preseason game in an ambulance

Sporting KC forward Soony Saad left Friday night's preseason game in an ambulance after a lengthy spell on the ground, injured.

Chance Myers injured, leaves preseason game in 30th minute

Sporting KC rightback Chance Myers left Friday night's game against Portland Timbers in the first half with an apparent right quad strain.

Claudio Bieler makes preseason debut for Sporting KC

Sporting KC's biggest offseason acquisition made his preseason debut for Sporting KC on Friday night. How did the new forward look?

Michael Harrington faces former club Sporting KC for first time

Michael Harrington spent the first six years of his professional career playing for Kansas City Wizards and Sporting Kansas City, and will face his former club, the only club he'd ever known until this past December when he was traded to Portland Timbers, for the first time.

Granted Friday night's matchup is only a preseason tune-up for the 2013 Major League Soccer regular season which kicks off one month and one day from tonight, but it will be weird for Harrington and Sporting KC fans alike to see the University of North Carolina product playing on the other side.

Harrington will be in the starting lineup for Portland when things kick off at 7 p.m. CT:

Timbers Preseason XI vs. SKC: Ricketts; Miller, Jean-Baptiste, Silvestre, Harrington; Chara, Johnson; Zizzo, Valeri, Nagbe; Johnson #RCTID

— Portland Timbers (@TimbersFC) February 2, 2013

Harrington, drafted 3rd overall in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft, played in 149 games for the Wizards and Sporting KC, scored 5 goals and assisted on 14 more.

Sporting KC vs. Portland Timbers: preseason game No. 3

It's Sporting KC vs. Portland Timbers on Friday night, and The Daily Wiz has your coverage locked down from all angles.