On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:33:47AM -0500, Paul Trusten wrote:
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> It has been reported to me that the National Collegiate Athletic 
> Association (NCAA) is moving to drop meters from its events and revert, 
> for example, from 1500 m to one mile, and meters back to yards, in track 
> events. I looked and searched on the NCAA Web site, but found no 
> reference to this reversion. While sports may be outside commerce, a 
> rejection of metric units in athletic events is a step backward for U.S. 
> metrication as well as a rejection of the measurement system used in 
> international athletics. Does anyone have more information on this?

About half way down on http://gometric.us/jforum/posts/list/15/8.page

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