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A Connecticut Law Spurs Adoption of Alternative Field-Care Options

A Connecticut law reinforces a trend to adopt alternative field-care options.

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Fast Break - August 2007

Turning into a rec; AB Wins GoldClearSpan Fabric Structures International Inc.ClearSpan Buildings by TekSupplyclearspan.comE-mail us to to find out how to add your company to our Sponsored Links.Wreck into RecThe federal government's plan to shut down more than 30 military bases as part of a massive facilities realignment has signaled economic disaster to some small communities. But it needn't be all doom and gloom - just look at Bristol, R.I. According to Providence Journal reports, officials in the deep-water seaport town have devised a plan to transform the Quinta-Gamelin Army Reserve Center - slated to close in five years - into a public recreation facility.Want to see your name in lights?Send press releases and news to our Web Editor for consideration: [email protected] Wake Forest men's basketball coach Skip Prosser died unexpectedly three days later at age 56, the victim of an apparent heart attack, reaction was immediate. That night, hundreds of fans honored the late coach by partaking in a tradition that Prosser himself often joined after major on-court victories - they trimmed the trees lining the lawn at Wait Chapel with toilet paper. "This is support for us," Wake alum Frank Johnson told Sports Illustrated's Seth Davis. "I had to get through this with somebody."Within hours, Dixon was dead - the victim of an enlarged, arrhythmic heart.Conference fee:Subscribe to Athletic Business magazine.Read Extra Credit.Complete Results:What is most important when deciding on seats for your stadium or arena?We respect your right to privacy:

Louisville's MVP Zone Excites Individuals with Disabilities

The individuals with disabilities who will call it home are not the only people excited about Louisville's new MVP Zone.

Stadium & Arena

Environmental Graphics Helps Unify the Look and Emotional Resonance of Facilities

A systematic environmental graphics program can help unify the look - and even the emotional resonance - of sports and recreation facilities.Jim Lutz, president of Gaithersburg, Md.-based Arena Graphics Inc., has noticed that facility owners are moving away from the type of advertising that used to plaster every surface. Not in baseball stadiums or hockey rinks, where there's an established history of outfield wall and dasher-board signs, but in basketball arenas in particular: There's a cleaner look now, with actual wall surfaces in view that show team colors perhaps, but few ads.

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High Schools Use Different Approaches to Fund Synthetic Turf Projects

High school administrators use a variety of funding approaches to seed synthetic turf projects.That seems to be the mind-set of many school districts these days regarding the financing of synthetic turf fields and other athletic facilities.

Fast Break - June 2007

Divine Intervention; 'Wii' Are SoreClearSpan Fabric Structures International Inc. ClearSpan Buildings by TekSupply clearspan.comE-mail us to to find out how to add your company to our Sponsored Links.In 2005, a suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., against the Pleasanton School District for refusing to allow the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to use school facilities for free, use school vehicles, appear in the yearbook or raise money on school grounds because of its religious affiliation.Want to see your name in lights? Send press releases and news to our Web Editor for consideration: [email protected], who has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times, most recently in 2006, will share his favorite sports stories, as well as his thoughts on sportsmanship, youth sports and the human side of sports.Subscribe to Athletic Business magazine.View the Architectural Showcase entries.Complete Results: Where do trails rank on your community's recreational priority list?We respect your right to privacy:

Fast Break - May 2007

Up in Flames; Guy TalkClearSpan Fabric Structures International Inc. ClearSpan Buildings by TekSupply clearspan.comE-mail us to to find out how to add your company to our Sponsored Links.According to the Los Angeles Times, the fire began on May 8 around 1:30 p.m. Pacific time - a day on which the temperature in Los Angeles hit a record 97 degrees Fahrenheit, 23 degrees above normal. (This spring season's unusually dry and hot weather have made the park's dense vegetation - some of which hadn't burned in more than a decade - all the more susceptible to fire.) By late afternoon, it appeared that the more than 500 firefighters responding to the blaze from the air and ground had it under control. But shortly after dusk, a wind shift scattered embers, igniting several small flare-ups in hard-to-reach hills and canyons. Local authorities had yet to determine the cause of the blaze by Thursday morning, but did say that the fire started about a half-mile east of the Griffith Park Observatory. The fire was 75 percent contained by Wednesday evening, and was expected to be fully contained by the end of Thursday.Want to see your name in lights? Send press releases and news to our Web Editor for consideration: [email protected] Excellence in Youth Sports Awards, first presented in 2000, honor programs that do superior jobs of conducting diverse activities with a focus on providing safe and positive experiences for all participants - including children, parents and coaches.Subscribe to Athletic Business magazine.Read All Hands On Deck.Complete Results: Has your entity made sustainable design a priority for current or future building projects? We respect your right to privacy:

Gym & Fieldhouse

Hosting Special Events Inside Sports Venues

Hosting special events inside sports venues takes imagination and the proper tools.

Stadium & Arena

Soccer Players and Fans Benefit from a North American Building Boom

Soccer players, and fans of the world's most popular sport, are benefiting from an unprecedented North American building Boom.How the different fields interrelate constitutes another important consideration. In strictly recreational settings, fields are sometimes laid out without berms, bleachers or other obstructions between them so that practice fields can be striped in either a north-south or east-west direction. This helps reduce wear around goalmouths and areas between fields, the two most heavily trafficked spaces during competitive play. If a complex's owner hopes to attract tournaments, fields should be laid out a minimum of 30 feet apart in all directions (50 feet is preferred). Even greater clearance should be provided for central spectator areas that serve more than one field (in cases in which two fields are laid out parallel to each other). Tall barriers, such as suspended net systems, are recommended to contain errant shots behind goals.Naturally, the addition of a large spectator venue to the mix will complicate things. Sites large enough to hold the infrastructure required of a professional sports venue aren't easy to come by in many cities, let alone sites big enough to hold a stadium and a dozen soccer fields. In addition, issues such as parking and recreational field placement (secondary fields shouldn't sit in the shadow of the larger structure, for example) are far more difficult to finesse in such cases.

Groundskeepers Strive for Peak Irrigation Efficiency

Rainfall was already lagging 30 inches behind the 12-month norm when drought conditions spiraled out of control last July in Mesquite, Texas. For two solid weeks, high temperatures topped 105 degrees, baking the city's clay-based recreational sports fields as if they were in some giant meteorological kiln. Fractured soil and patches of brown turf characterized many fields - the usable ones. And in a cruel bit of irony, updates to the in-ground irrigation system at one of Mesquite's multipurpose venues had bared so much soil to the blazing sun that cracks on that field measured a full 12 inches wide and three feet deep, exposing the system's brand-new wiring strung 18 inches below the playing surface and rendering the renovated tract useless for the entire baseball and football seasons.Grant Trenbeath, head groundskeeper for Major League Baseball's desert-based Arizona Diamondbacks, recently tweaked the irrigation system at Chase Field to allow high-speed rotors to water much of the facility's skinned areas. "To alleviate some of the man-hours we were pouring into the watering of our infield dirt, I put in a system that allows me to turn on one manual valve and run it while I'm hand-watering at the same time," Trenbeath says. "I can be done watering my infield and darn near flooding it in 15 minutes, as opposed to it taking three people up to 45 minutes."

Fields at New York City's Randall's Island Are Getting a Facelift

The fields at New York City's Randall's Island are getting a face-lift, thanks to a new partnership between the city's Parks Department and 20 Manhattan private schools.

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