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Fans demand corporate sponsors dump Portland Thorns and Timbers unless owner sells, fires top execs

Outraged fans of the Portland Thorns and Timbers took to social media calling for big corporate names to end their sponsorships of the professional soccer teams — to intensify pressure on owner Merritt Paulson to fire top executives and sell the teams. Fans Monday and Tuesday applauded one of the few sponsors to make a statement — Laurelwood Brewing Co. — in response to a yearlong investigation that revealed alleged abuses and cover-ups across the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), including...