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A Texas Pee Wee football league has ruled that a 300-pound seventh-grader is too big to play, according to Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW Fox 4's website. Elijah Earnhardt, 12, was informed this past weekend by the Mesquite Pee Wee Football Association that he is not allowed to play in the league, according to the report posted on MyFoxDFW.com. The league's rule is that any seventh-grader weighing more than 135 pounds is barred and must play in his school's league, according to the report. But Earnhardt, who is more than 6 feet tall, and his mother, Cindy, told the website...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A coach in a videotaped Pee Wee football brawl was charged with misdemeanor assault Tuesday, prosecutors said. An amateur video shows Robert Watson, 39, charging onto a field and tackling an 18-year-old referee. The video goes on to show a mob of parents surrounding them in a melee. Assistant District Attorney James Sales said prosecutors had been waiting for photos relating to the brawl from the Corpus Christi Police Department. "You always like to see the injury," he said. "Basically, it's a black eye." The video, taken during a Nov. 4 Super Bowl game of 5-...