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...least 20 colleges have made the switch. Four NFL stadiums--in Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia and Seattle--use synthetic grass, and several others, including Giants Stadium, outside New York City, are considering it. "You don't even have to try hard to sell it," says Joe DiGeronimo, a turf consultant based in Sturbridge, Mass...
...Angeles, was always in terrible shape, trampled by exercise classes, marching bands and other sports teams. So the football team played its "home" games on the field of another school in town. All the while, Claremont High spent as much as $20,000 a year maintaining its own sorry turf...
Claremont's dilemma is one familiar to sports teams from the New York Giants to the Tennessee Titans, which this season have repeatedly had to stumble and slide through games on muddy, ripped-up turf. But Claremont found a solution, and it's likely to become a home-field advantage for many other teams...
When the school received extra money for playing fields last summer, it decided to try an artificial turf, even though it would cost more than $700,000. The new surface is not classic AstroTurf, which many players consider hard and abrasive, but a softer, shaggier material called FieldTurf, made of sand, recycled rubber sneakers and blades of grass fashioned from synthetic fiber. Pleased with the feel and durability of its new field, Claremont High this season was host to its first home football games in a half-century...
...week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed to happen in places like Los Angeles or New York, not in British cities where the archetypal bobby goes unarmed. But the Jan. 2 shootings and the gun-crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican...