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...didn't make the transition from grass to turf very well," fullback Emily Buxton said. "They picked up a lot of our passes and played very well defensively against...
...question at a time. Prairyerth is an old geological term for prairie soil. The westerly thinning-out of forest and the first broad stretches of prairie grass are what make Chase County a magical place for the author. Eastern travelers feel edgy here, Trogdon notices, and so do some natives: "The protection and sureties of the vertical woodland, walled like a home and enclosed like a refuge, are gone, and now the land . . . is a world of air, space, apparent emptiness, near nothingness," where wind blows steadily "as if out of the lungs of the universe...
...Crimson's turf troubles may be related to its shortage of stamina-the artifical surface exposes weak lower-body conditioning more prominently than grass. However, Harvard fared well in its only turf game this season, its heart-breaking 21-20 loss to Army. And if it can play as well as it did against the Cadets, the Big Red will be no match for the Crimson...
...Neanderthalish Pistons power forward, has a point: the foundation, the cornerstone, the Magna Carta of sports is The Tryout. At a pro baseball game, players have tried out and made the team. The umps have gone through a rigorous process of schooling and elimination. Who knows? Maybe the best grass-snippers were selected to comprise the groundskeeping crews...
...downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...