The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has stopped short of letting the San Jose Earthquakes build a...
Wald: Sports fields need to be ‘safe’ for professionals and everyone else
All Santa Clara County residents should be proud that one of our own, Edwyn Mendoza, will be playing for the Earthquakes and using this opportunity to advocate for other youth to have “safe fields to play on” in a San José Spotlight opinion piece. Sadly, the “deal” the Earthquakes are forging with the county and San Jose to build soccer fields at the fairgrounds negates safety by insisting that the public areas will be artificial turf. This issue has been fraught with misinformation promulgated by both the artificial turf industry and sports associations. The science is clear that artificial turf...