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Texas high school player who hit referee apologizes, gets ban at league hearing Des Bieler, The Washington Post Dec. 15, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail In what were reportedly his first public comments since his act of violence made national headlines, a Texas high school football player offered an apology Monday. Eighteen-year-old Emmanuel Duron spoke during an executive committee hearing of the University Interscholastic League, which was conducted remotely via Zoom. The committee augmented a suspension already levied against Duron that effectively ended his high school sports career, and it voted for additional punishments for his school, Edinburg High, and its football coach. I d like to say that I m sorry for what happened to my coaches, my family and to the UIL, Duron said (via McAllen, Texas, newspaper the Monitor). ....