Last week was a busy one for David Kvidahl, who covers high school sports for STLhighschoolsports.com and STLtoday.com.
On Tuesday, he was calling Cardinal Ritter College Prep to let school officials know he planned to publish a story about a football player at the Catholic school taking the field while ineligible. The next day, he was reporting that St. Louis Public Schools had terminated Roosevelt High School athletic director and head football coach . Then, on Friday, that its entire football staff had been 鈥減ermanently released鈥� by the school.
Kvidahl joined host Sarah Fenske on Thursday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air to go behind the headlines on the latest developments in both the Roosevelt and Cardinal Ritter stories.
Take a listen to their conversation, which also included comments from two Roosevelt football players who have come to Porter's defense and from St. Louis Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia (D-6th Ward):
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