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Post by MizzouTiger on Jan 19, 2008 13:15:02 GMT -5
www.kansascity.com/166/story/451418.htmlFormer Jayhawk Dana Stubblefield pleads guilty to perjury in BALCO caseFormer NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield, who played with the 49ers. Washington and Oakland after a collegiate career at Kansas, pleaded guilty Friday to lying to investigators in the BALCO steroids case. Charges against Stubblefield, 37, were unsealed by the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Stubblefield, who played 11 seasons in the NFL, tested positive in 2003 for the steroid tetrahydragestrinone, or THG, and erythropoietin, a human growth hormone known as EPO, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow. THG is also known as “The Clear.” “I falsely stated about using the drug EPO” and The Clear,” Stubblefield told U.S. District Court judge Susan Illston. Stubblefield entered a guilty plea and his attorney, Mike Armstrong, submitted a plea agreement to Illston. He is the first football player charged in the long-running federal investigation. The plea deal calls for Stubblefield, 37, to spend zero to six months in prison — though the judge is not bound by the agreement. He was one of three players fined by the NFL for testing positive for the designer steroid THG, but he was not suspended because THG was not added to the NFL’s banned substance list until after the tests were conducted.
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