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Ex-NFL Player Pleads Guilty to Lying About Steroids

Posted Jan 18, 08 6:21 PM CST in US,  Crime & Courts,  Sports    Most Covered

(Newser) – The steroids probe that brought down Marion Jones has claimed it first NFL player: Three-time Pro Bowler Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty today in federal court to making false statements to a federal agent about performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors alleged the former defensive lineman lied in 2003 about taking a previously undetectable steroid called “the clear” and the blood-boosting drug EPO.

The 37-year-old Stubblefield, who played for San Francisco, Washington and Oakland during an 11-season career, faces up to five years in jail but will likely draw a lesser sentence. Unlike baseball star Barry Bonds, he has not been charged with lying before the grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), the lab at the center of the steroids scandal.

Sources: New York Times, Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle

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Victor Conte stands in front of a logo of Balco, his former company BALCO, in the offices of his revived company, SNAC, in Burlingame, Calif. Conte and his defense lawyer are among six people who have...   (Associated Press)
Former NFL football player Dana Stubblefield leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. Stubblefield pleaded guilty Friday to lying to investigators in the BALCO steroids case,...   (Associated Press)
Former NFL football player Dana Stubblefield leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. Stubblefield pleaded guilty Friday to lying to investigators in the BALCO steroids case,...   (Associated Press)
Former NFL football player Dana Stubblefield, center, leaves a federal courthouse with his attorney Mike Armstrong, left, in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. Stubblefield pleaded guilty Friday to...   (Associated Press)
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Former San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds leaves the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, on Friday, Dec. 21, 2007 after responding to government concerns that his high powered legal team may...   (Associated Press)
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