Word: turfing
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...limelight and you’ve got a product about as interesting as professional pool. Beirut has always been about the atmosphere, the competition, and the thrill of daggering your opponents on the rebuttal. Bud and Miller can’t capture this, and they should stay off our turf. Thankfully, Big Beer didn’t count on two things which will inevitably stymie their efforts. First, trying to take the drinking out of Beirut is like taking the “eer” out of “beer.” There’s nothing...
EASTON, Pa.—The field looked bad. It played worse. A week ago, Lafayette, Columbia, and a torrential downpour combined to turn the Fisher Field turf into a veritable swamp. Constant rainfall and a broken drainage system hadn’t improved the conditions by kickoff Saturday, despite clear skies. Fortunately for the Crimson, the weather in Boston rivals that in Pennsylvania. “I think it rained almost as much up at Harvard,” senior fullback Kelly Widman said, “and we had a whole practice field of mud, just like...
Lafayette’s first offensive play of the second half was a crossing pattern from quarterback Pat Davis to wideout Joe Ort that went for an 83-yard touchdown after freshman cornerback Andrew Berry lost his footing in the muddy turf...
...sides of the street. The exact duplication of the buildings and their direct alignment gives the impression that this center is forming its own little, self-involved bubble. The segment of the street is appropriated by the imposing presence of the twinned structures that stand like sentinels guarding Harvard turf. This impression is only magnified by the center’s position on the fringes of the campus. So much for fitting in. When asked, in a phone interview, about this pseudo-privatization of public space, Cobb said “Everything in life is a choice. There are trade...
...first half we were definitely on our heels,” McDavitt said. “Providence had just installed new turf and it took us some time to adjust to how the ball rolled...