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    Sod removal underway at Notre Dame Stadium - May 23, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Stadium sod removed

    Rolls of turf removed from the field of Notre Dame Stadium this morning are loaded onto a semi trailer, as the University of Notre Dame prepares to install artificial turf in the football stadium. The university is selling the sod online for $149.95 per 5-by-2 foot roll. (SBT Photo/MARGARET FOSMOE)

    Crews are working to remove the grass playing surface from Notre Dame Stadium in preparation for new FieldTurf to be installed later this summer. (SBT Photo/SANTIAGO FLORES)

    Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 5:17 pm, Wed May 21, 2014.

    Sod removal under way at Notre Dame Stadium MARGARET FOSMOE South Bend Tribune mfosmoe@sbtinfo.com SouthBendTribune.com

    SOUTH BEND Rolls of grass being removed today from the field of Notre Dame Stadium are being neatly stacked on a semi-trailer near the stadiums north gate.

    By 8:30 a.m., the bed of the trailer was half filled.

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    Yard lines and endzones are extra - May 22, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Published: Thursday, May 22, 2014, 12:01 a.m.

    It's not that we can't see the advantages, but we're wondering if walk-in clinics are going to see a rash of 7- to 12-year-olds with blown-out knees and turf toe.

    Wasn't that a breakfast cereal? Washington State University has named a new variety of apple that should be available in stores by 2019. Focus groups helped pick the new apple's name, Cosmic Crisp.

    Although the name suggests otherwise, it's a cross of Enterprise and Honeycrisp apples; not a cross between an apple and marijuana.

    Something to sniff at: Dog owners can choose from a number of canine-related apps for their smartphones, including ones that locate dog parks, connect them with other dog lovers and monitor the dog's health using an electronic collar.

    Most popular with the dogs themselves is a Yelp-like app that allows dogs, on a scale of one to five sniffs, to review and rate trees, fence posts and fire hydrants.

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    Sod removal under way at Notre Dame Stadium - May 21, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Stadium sod removed

    Rolls of turf removed from the field of Notre Dame Stadium this morning are loaded onto a semi trailer, as the University of Notre Dame prepares to install artificial turf in the football stadium. The university is selling the sod online for $149.95 per 5-by-2 foot roll. (SBT Photo/MARGARET FOSMOE)

    Crews are working to remove the grass playing surface from Notre Dame Stadium in preparation for new FieldTurf to be installed later this summer. (SBT Photo/SANTIAGO FLORES)

    Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 6:49 am, Wed May 21, 2014.

    Sod removal under way at Notre Dame Stadium MARGARET FOSMOE South Bend Tribune mfosmoe@sbtinfo.com SouthBendTribune.com

    SOUTH BEND Rolls of grass being removed today from the field of Notre Dame Stadium are being neatly stacked on a semi-trailer near the stadiums north gate.

    By 8:30 a.m., the bed of the trailer was half filled.

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    Drought, constant use damages grass at Klyde Warren Park - May 20, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    by SEBASTIAN ROBERTSON

    WFAA

    Posted on May 19, 2014 at 6:39 PM

    Updated today at 6:39 PM

    DALLAS -- Staff at Kylde Warren Park are calling it a good problem to have -- the grass has been "loved to death."

    Constant use of the grass combined with drought conditions are causing crews to tear out the lawn and replace it with fresh sod.

    The west side of the park will be closed for a few weeks.

    The park has survived and thrived through it's inaugural year in Dallas. The grass hasn't.

    The lawn at Kylde Warren isn't alone. Residents across Dallas have watched their lawns turn from green to brown, and despite the warmer weather, they're staying brown.

    "There are a lot of factors caused by this cold that have set our lawns back," said Bryan Hutson of Calloway's Nursery.

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    You can now buy grass from Notre Dame Stadium - May 20, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    AP

    As my colleagues at CSNChicago wrote about over the weekend, if youre a die-hard Notre Dame fan feeling nostalgic about natural grass at Notre Dame Stadium, you can now buy a two-by-five foot piece of grass turf from the stadium for $149.95.

    Notre Dame sent a release out Monday morning with more details on the sale: The sod will be removed from Notre Dame Stadium by Tuesday, May 20, shipped on May 21 and delivered by May 23 (the $149.95 includes two-day shipping). The cuts of grass will come from the least-worn areas of the stadium some sections were in pretty awful shape by the end of the 2013 season, and in even worse shape during the Blue-Gold game last month.

    Notre Dame has played football on natural grass for every season of the programs existence, but will switch to artificial turf for the coming 2014 season. Issues with the field grew over the last few years, with 2013s regular season home finale against BYU a pretty egregious example of how bad the turf got (there were about 10 instances of a player being tackled after slipping and falling on a dead patch of grass).

    Natural or artificial turf became a sticking point with a lot of Notre Dame fans hoping the school would continue to do things differently than other college programs. But tradition only goes so far when it becomes impossible to maintain a passable quality in natural grass.

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    Notre Dame selling stadium grass turf - May 20, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Published: Monday, 5/19/2014

    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SOUTH BEND, Ind. Notre Dame is selling rolls of grass from its football stadium to the public as it prepares to install an artificial surface before the upcoming season.

    The school announced today it is selling 2-foot-by-5-foot sections of grass from Notre Dame Stadium for $149.95, which includes two-day shipping and a certificate of authenticity.

    The school says the grass will be removed from the stadium Tuesday and be shipped on Wednesday.

    Notre Dame announced last month it was switching to FieldTurf because of problems with the playing surface in recent seasons. The university installed new sod at the stadium four times last year, including twice during the season.

    Athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the change could allow the stadium to be used for other events.

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    No Grass to Keep Off at Ohio's University of Findlay - May 17, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Anne Risser Lee / University of Findlay

    Workers correct an unfortunate lawn care accident that affected most of University of Findlay's campus.

    The University of Findlay in Ohio took a lot of pride in its award-winning campus landscape until last week.

    The school's lawn-care company accidentally applied weed-killer instead of fertilizer and wiped out nearly all of the lawns, a university spokeswoman said.

    The mixup happened April 29 but the damage didn't become apparent for about a week, when expanses of green turned to brown dirt fields.

    Now the school has to re-sod or re-seed more than 50 acres, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    University spokeswoman Brianna Patterson said the contractor's insurance company would probably pick up the tab for the work. She declined to identify the company.

    "People make mistakes and we dont want to do anything that would harm their other business," she said.

    She noted that the school won an "America in Bloom" award last year for its beautiful campus.

    "Its very unfortunate this happened," she said. "We will work to fix it, and the grounds will be restored to their former glory."

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    Lawn Care Error Kills Most Of Ohio College's Grass - May 16, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) A university in northwest Ohio is being forced to replace almost all its grass after weedkiller was accidentally applied to lawns instead of fertilizer.

    University of Findlay spokeswoman Brianna Patterson says the chemical was applied to campus lawns during the last week of April and it will take several weeks to reseed and re-sod the affected areas.

    Patterson tells the Findlay Courier (http://bit.ly/1k7MJ30 ) for a story Friday the mistake is unfortunate because of how hard the university works to keep the campus looking nice.

    Findlay University did not release the name of the company that made the mistake but is working with the business' insurance company to pay for it to be fixed.

    The university says grass was killed on as many as 54 of the campus' 72 acres.

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    Information from: The Courier, http://www.thecourier.com

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    Grass field not cutting it for Oakville's Garth Webb Secondary School - May 13, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Oakville Beaver

    Garth Webb Secondary School teams are scheduled to play 51 regular-season games this spring.

    None of them are slated to be contested on Webb soil.

    In fact, according to Webb phys-ed head Jay Anderson, the Chargers have hosted just one game a field hockey contest last fall since the school opened two years ago.

    The reason? An chronically-saturated athletic field that Anderson wryly suggests might be more appropriately used as a bird sanctuary than as a venue for field hockey, soccer, rugby and football.

    A couple of weeks ago, it was just covered with geese. They enjoy it, Anderson says.

    Then the smile disappears.

    Were a school who has just opened up, so you try to get traditions going. You try to get momentum going for school sports, and then you dont have a field to play on, Anderson says.

    That makes it tough.

    School thought it was getting artificial turf

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    New grass. (sod) Gone’s the mud. – Video - May 12, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder


    New grass. (sod) Gone #39;s the mud.
    Millie #39;s waitin #39;. And new sod.

    By: Robert G. Nace

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