Wall Street Journal: The Bare Spots in the Turf

...But dozens of fields installed between 2006 and 2009 were flawed and are now falling apart, forcing schools to replace playing surfaces they once thought would last a decade or more...
...The fields that are failing prematurely were manufactured by FieldTurf Inc., a unit of France's Tarkett SA...

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