All of this, of course, is routine turf protection in the business world.

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Even the prestigious Old Course Hotel's access to the sacred turf , which is publicly owned, is so limited that it has built its own course four miles away.

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There is a flip side to this of course: experts, when off their own turf, when outside their knowledge base, are just as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

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While the Kremlin can, of course, be exceedingly brutal and anti-democratic in defending its own turf, I see absolutely no reason why it would suddenly abandon a Syria policy that has broad, if unenthusiastic, popular support and which is actively opposed only by a tiny minority of Russian citizens.

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The rule, of course, also would apply to teams that wear all green uniforms on green turf or, in Eastern Washington's case, all red on its red turf.

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