Beard far more than 'a black kid from the hood'

Arkansas guard Anton Beard guards Maurice Aniefiok of North Texas during a game Friday, Nov. 28, 2014 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville. Floyd Beard recalls being in state of “disbelief” when he first found out one of his five children had been arrested July 22 on counterfeit charges.

Nineteen-year-old Anton Beard had never been anything like a problem child growing up in the neighborhood around North Little Rock High School. He and his friends always had plenty of after-school clubs and sports to keep them occupied.

Somehow, someway, though, Beard and two Razorback teammates wound up using counterfeit $20 and $50 bills at three different locations last summer in Fayetteville. Beard would…