Advocacy Group Rips Safety, Durability Of Artificial Turf Fields

Advocacy Group Rips Safety, Durability Of Artificial Turf Fields Forbes I have long been skeptical about artificial turf athletic fields. I played on one at Syracuse when I was a member of the Siena College soccer team in the ...

Ground Zero: The Dangers That Artificial Turf May Pose To Football Players' Brains

Ground Zero: The Dangers That Artificial Turf May Pose To Football Players' Brains Forbes A few Pro Football Hall of Famers have spoken out loudly against concussions this past week. Most of what they have had to say has been about decreasing the chances of children sustaining head injuries caused by knocking each other in the noggin while playing the game. Some of their concern, ...

Hardness Test Results Reveal Wider Scope Of Artificial Turf Failures

Hardness Test Results Reveal Wider Scope Of Artificial Turf Failures

DCist.com

The results of annual and emergency hardness tests on artificial turf tests reveal that seven failed fields were in use for months before the Department ...

DC's artificial turf field hardness tests reveal standards discrepancy

DC's artificial turf field hardness tests reveal standards discrepancy

FOX 5 DC

WASHINGTON - FOX 5 has obtained records that detail the results of hardness tests of the D.C.'s 52 artificial turf fields, revealing some fields that ...

Meeting on dangers of artificial turf fields being held Saturday

Meeting on dangers of artificial turf fields being held Saturday

Times Herald-Record

HIGHLAND FALLS – Patricia Wood, executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, will speak about the dangers of artificial turf fields at 3 ...

Super Bowl 2017: Is a Turf or Grass Field Riskier for Players?

Super Bowl 2017: Is a Turf or Grass Field Riskier for Players?

Live Science

Does the field's surface type — grass or turf — affect players' injury rates? One of the benefits of artificial turf is that the surface is more uniform — free ...

The horrors of an artificial soccer field

The horrors of an artificial soccer field

The Concordian (subscription)

Dr. Raoul Daoust, a surgeon at the Jewish General Hospital, said links can be drawn between artificial turf and the injuries that have been happening.

Idaho State University sports science Professor Michael Meyers documents link between injuries

Idaho State University sports science Professor Michael Meyers documents link between injuries ...

Idaho State University

POCATELLO – When it comes to artificial turf, there's a simple, but firm analysis related to injuries that Idaho State University researcher Michael ...

Research: More sports injuries occur on artificial turf

Research: More sports injuries occur on artificial turf

NL Times

Athletes have a better chance of getting hurt playing on artificial turf than on natural grass, according to a study done by television program Radar.

Are the lack of standardized shock absorption rates in artificial turf leaving teens at risk of head ...

Are the lack of standardized shock absorption rates in artificial turf leaving teens at risk of head ... USA TODAY High School Sports For years, the assumption was that artificial turf surfaces were better in every way for athletes. They allowed for better footing in adverse weather like ...

Are high school athletes at risk from artificial turf?

UPI.com

Are high school athletes at risk from artificial turf?

UPI.com

FRIDAY, July 8, 2016 -- Lower levels of fake soil in artificial turf -- a cost-saving move -- may be linked to sharply higher numbers of injuries among ...

Concussion Report Highlights Field Maintenance

New York Times

Concussion Report Highlights Field Maintenance

New York Times

“We have no national conversation on the technology underneath an athlete's feet,” the authors wrote in their report, the Role of Synthetic Turf in ...

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The US women's soccer team isn't putting up with dangerous field conditions

The Week Magazine

The US women's soccer team isn't putting up with dangerous field conditions

The Week Magazine

As Deadspin pointed out, this is far from the first time the women's team has taken issue with artificial turf fields, which are considered more dangerous ...

Turf Wars: How Safe Are The Fields Where We Play?

ESPN

Turf Wars: How Safe Are The Fields Where We Play?

ESPN

I remember the first time I played on a synthetic turf field. I thought, "Wow, this is amazing. What is this stuff?" It seemed so much better than that ...

Vernon school board may go with natural grass over artificial turf for ball fields

Vernon school board may go with natural grass over artificial turf for ball fields

Journal Inquirer

VERNON — The athletic fields at Rockville High School are due for a makeover, and some Board of Education members are leaning toward using ...

Oliseh raises concerns over artificial turf

Oliseh raises concerns over artificial turf

The Nation Newspaper

Oliseh raises concerns over artificial turf ... and while he expects to face a tough host, Oliseh believes the artificial turf is a disadvantage to his side.

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Potential injury increase

Potential injury increase

Times Daily

Now, artificial turf has grown in popularity after many technological advances. The turf athletes play on has artificial grass fibers to give the appearance ...

Soccer coaches still prefer natural grass to field turf

Lake Country Now

Soccer coaches still prefer natural grass to field turf

Lake Country Now

Uihlein Soccer Park, the Milwaukee home to the state tournament for both boy and girls soccer, is one of many facilities that employs artificial turf.

Washington Township Council takes heat over turf field plans

NorthJersey.com

Washington Township Council takes heat over turf field plans - News - NorthJersey.com

NorthJersey.com

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – Public outcry over the township's proposal to install artificial turf at Memorial Field dominated a tense council meeting ...

Kinnelon residents may force turf referendum vote

Kinnelon residents may force turf referendum vote

NorthJersey.com

Opponents of the artificial turf project say they have enough signatures on a petition to require that the matter be put before voters as a ballot question.