Not long before Clayton High School's football team was to advance to the Missouri state championship playoffs in November 2003, a scandal broke out: The athletic director from a rival school called his counterpart at Clayton to challenge the eligibility of Jairus Byrd, a junior who'd played two years of high school ball in Wisconsin and was now living with his parents in an Earth City hotel while paying tuition to...
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Jennifer Silverberg
Floyd Irons, whose 31-year reign as Vashon's head
basketball coach ended abruptly this past summer, says he
knows nothing about whether his former players' living
arrangements violated state bylaws for athletic eligibility.