Dana Stubblefield

February 7th, 2009 filed in Football

A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday sentenced former NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield to two years probation for lying to authorities about his use of performance-enhancing drugs in connection to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) case. The AP reports say Stubblefield’s later cooperation with authorities in the BALCO steroids case kept him from getting three months’ home confinement, which is what federal probation officials had recommended. The 1997 defensive player of the year was also fined $5,000.

Stubblefield received notice from the NFL in 2003 that he had tested positive for THG, which was distributed by Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Three days later, he told an IRS agent that he had never used that substance, according to the court records.

Stubblefield 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.