premise: The Portland Timbers are an American professional soccer club based in Portland, Oregon. The Timbers compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference.The Timbers play their home games at Providence Park since 2011 when the team began play as an expansion team in the league.
hypothesis: The Portland Timbers are owned by a Russian owner.
reason: I made a very spontaneous claim not backed at all by the text.