Mile, Nautical and Statute
The statute mile has it origins in Roman times where a measure of a thousand paces, mille passum, was used for large distances. For the Romans, a pace was the distance betwe...
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LSU head football coach Les Miles signed a contract extension Thursday to keep him at the university through 2012, apparently ending speculation that he might leave for a job at the University of M...
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LSU coach Les Miles denied once again Tuesday he is interested in filling Michigan's head coaching vacancy.Miles, who is spending this week recruiting for LSU, released a statement Tuesday in respo...
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Les Miles tried once, twice, three times to deflect talk about Michigan. The more he dodged, the more he was quizzed.The LSU coach was asked six times in all about a possible move, then time ran ou...
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Michigan officials asked for and received permission from LSU to meet with Les Miles about the Wolverines' head football coaching vacancy.LSU athletic director Skip Bertman granted the request on c...
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A few spot fires ignited Saturday afternoon across a highway from a massive wildfire and firefighters struggled to put them out before they could spread in the miles of tinder-dry forest beyond.Sev...
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About 900 bicyclists have decided to take on the state's hilly terrain and dry, hot weather this week to participate in Oklahoma FreeWheel 2006.
The challenge includes biking 400 miles fro...
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Trainer Bob Baffert may have expected too much too soon from Midnight Lute. Four weeks after winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint, Midnight Lute was upset by Daaher in the $300,000 Cigar Mile at Aquedu...
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Sitting in his hotel room Friday, Bernard Lagat played over in his head how the Wanamaker Mile would go at the Millrose Games that night.Australian Craig Mottram, who gave him a tough race last yea...
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Lance Mackey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North American sled dog races back-to-back.Mackey crossed under the famed burled a...
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Mile, Nautical and Statute
LSU extends Miles' contract through 2012
