Sports in Portland, Oregon

Several of the Trail Blazers' former players are in the Basketball Hall of Fame, including Dražen Petrović, Bill Walton, Lenny Wilkens, Clyde Drexler, and Arvydas Sabonis.

[2] As of November 2013, the Portland Timbers had sold out the last 50 consecutive matches, and over 10,000 fans were on the wait list for season tickets.

Portland State offers football, basketball, women's volleyball, golf, soccer, track and field, tennis, softball, and cross country.

The Vikings sponsor football in the FCS (formerly Division I-AA) level and play their games at Providence Park.

The Portland Pilots are members of the non-football West Coast Conference and sponsor baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, and track and field.

The Portland Beavers were a Triple-A baseball team from the Pacific Coast League affiliated with the San Diego Padres.

The most recent franchise, which left after the 2010 season to become the Tucson Padres and is now known as the El Paso Chihuahuas, was founded in 2001, though the Beavers name dates to an early Portland baseball team established in 1903.

In 1973, after the Beavers moved to Spokane, Washington, the Portland Mavericks came to town in the form of an independent Single-A team within the Northwest League.

When Russell sold the team back to the Beavers in 1978 it was for $116,000, at the time a record amount for a minor league franchise.

When the Beavers relocated to Salt Lake City in 1993, another Northwest League team, the Portland Rockies, moved in for the 1995 season, playing until 2000.

[14] The Thunder's first game occurred on March 17, 2014, against the San Jose SaberCats at Portland's Moda Center.

During the 1998 season the team featured receiver Oronde Gadsden, who won the league's Rookie of the Year award, and went on to sign with the NFL's Miami Dolphins.

The Portland Pride was established in 1992 as a founding member of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL), which began play in 1993.