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Twelve-year-old Elijah Earnheart dons his practice pads for photos outside his home in Mesquite, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. The 6-foot, 300-pound 12-year-old has been ruled ineligible to play Pee Wee football in the Dallas area. Despite being a young seventh-grader, officials say is more than twice the maximum allowable Pee Wee weight of 135 pounds. (CP)
Hey, it's not called Pee Wee football for nothing.
The league in Mesquite, Texas, has banned Elijah Earnheart from playing because he doesn't meet the sixth-grade division's 160-pound maximum weight limit and his mother is protesting the move, the New York Daily News reported.
Elijah, 12, stands 6 feet 1 and weighs 297 pounds.
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Sports Marketing 101
So how soon before BALCO rolls out its first Melky Way power bar?
Perfectly dreadful
Rays manager Joe Maddon knew his hitters were in trouble during Felix Hernandez's perfect game Wednesday when they didn't do much with an early diet of King Felix fastballs.
"(Then) he introduced all his other goodies," Maddon told reporters, "and that's when it got kind of ugly."
Watch those elbows
Roller derby was founded in Chicago on Aug. 13, 1935, a fortuitous move for holiday-sale shoppers.
Accentuate the positive
The Tucson Padres, managed by ex-big-league skipper Terry Kennedy, allowed a whopping 33 hits -- four shy of the Pacific Coast League record -- in a 20-3 loss to the Omaha Storm Chasers.
"Kennedy could brag about his pitching staff on one front," wrote Don Norcross of The San Diego Union-Tribune. "The Padres allowed only one walk."
Time for Plan B
A 70-year-old Nebraska football tradition -- releasing 5,000 red balloons when the Cornhuskers score their first touchdown -- might be in jeopardy because of a national helium shortage.
If they have to switch to hot air, there's always Lee Corso.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 19, 2012 A1
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