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AstroTurf is an
American subsidiary of
SportGroup that
produces artificial turf for
playing surfaces in sports. The
original AstroTurf product was a short-pile...
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Astroturfing is the
deceptive practice of
hiding the
sponsors of an
orchestrated message or
organization (e.g., political, economic, advertising, religious...
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AstroTurf.
Given its
early use, the term
astroturf has
since been
genericized as a term for any
artificial turf.
Because the
supply of
AstroTurf was...
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first major sports venue to
install artificial turf in 1966,
which became known as
AstroTurf. In
another technological first, the
Astrodome featured...
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cooler weather. The
original AstroTurf installation was
replaced with Field
Turf from 2005 to 2010. The Field
Turf took
about 40
hours to
remove for...
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playing on
standard green AstroTurf,
athletic director Gene
Bleymaier came up with the idea to
install the blue
turf. If BSU was
going to
spend $750...
- definitively, a
theory links the
cancer to
toxic PFAS
chemicals in the
AstroTurf at
Veterans Stadium.
Frank Edwin "Tug"
McGraw Jr. was born
August 30,...
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players on both the
Astros and the
visiting teams to miss
routine pop flies. A new
artificial turf was
created called "
AstroTurf" and
Houston would be...
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surface at
Arrowhead Stadium,
which had
AstroTurf from 1972
through 1993. However, Toma has said that
artificial turf requires a good deal of maintenance...
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nickname "
Astro"
after high
school friends compared his flat-top
haircut to
AstroTurf, and he
reportedly had the
image of
cartoon dog
Astro from The Jetsons...
