Fans, players and sportscasters love to boast about their home team’s field of dreams, but who really has one? Each year, the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA), an organization of 2,700 men and women professionals who oversee sports fields worldwide, cuts through the tall grass to present its Field of […]
When a college football team competes on new turf at its home stadium, it could put a new spring in their step and boost their pride. What it won’t do is propel the team to victory. A LawnStarter analysis of the 15 U.S. college football teams that played on new […]
Do you get “green-eyed” when you view the perfectly cut stripes on a soccer field or ballpark? If alternating lines, checkerboards and diamond patterns would convert your lawn into a personal field of dreams, you can — with extra work — cut the same patterns in your own home turf. […]
Star Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green hurt his ankle on a Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools practice field in July badly enough to need surgery and likely miss six to eight games. It raised questions about whether the turf on the field itself, reportedly peppered with rocks and pebbles, was […]
Artificial turf is making a comeback at Major League Baseball parks and National Football League stadiums, with new high-tech artificial surfaces ending a trend toward playing fields of natural grass. A LawnStarter review found that by the 2020 season, two NFL franchises and two baseball teams will switch from natural […]
Editor’s note: See more-current story: “Artificial turf making a comeback at NFL stadiums, MLB ballparks.” During the 2015 season, a LawnStarter review showed that 17 NFL fields had natural grass surfaces and 14 had artificial turf surfaces. In all, 32 teams compete in the NFL; the New York Giants and […]
At the Baltimore Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium, artificial is out and natural is in. Responding to requests from players, the Ravens recently replaced the artificial turf on the stadium’s playing field with natural turf. The Ravens will start playing on the new field in the 2016-17 season. “Real football should […]