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Winning the title of first football player to be nabbed in the BALCO scandal, ex-49ers defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield was charged with lying to a federal agent when he denied taking steroids. Oh, Dana. he is expected to plead guilty in a San Francisco federal courtroom later on today.

Oh deerie-deer, Lance is back on the hot seat. An article in the New York Times on Tuesday reports that two former U.S. Postal teammates of Lance, Frankie Andreu and another unidentified rider, have admitted to using EPO during the 1999 racing season. The article does note that neither of the two riders ever saw Lance use any drugs, but the implication, and the guilt by association, are readily apparent.

Needless to say, Lance was not pleased.

And the next shoe dropped.

20/20 this week and name names. Or so says the already churning publicity mill about ABC's big "get" this week. The story, reported by Martin Bashir -- the very same reporter who got that awesome interview of Michael Jackson in which Jacko admitted he liked to sleep with children -- is supposedly about doping in track and field, but now that Conte is naming names, who knows where it will end up? As of this date, ABC is being quiet on what's being reported, stating that the story is "still being worked on" but speculation is already up and running that the story is more about Marion Jones than certain record breaking left-fielders. This all comes at a rather strange time as yesterday, the judge in the BALCO case refused to throw out the case despite defense attorney's claims that the case has been tarnished due to pre-trial publicity. And nothing says avoiding pre-trial publicity like going on a TV newsmagazine to give an exclusive interview. The judge, Susan Illston, did schedule a hearing to determine whether government agents used illegal means to get evidence. The Giants, meanwhile, have to be a bit on edge as nothing puts a damper on the excitement of big free-agent signings like a steroid scandal.

EssEffist loves us some women's beach voleyball. Sand, sun, world-class athletes and hot girl-on-girl action [Ed. Note: We really hope this doesn't get us filtered out of our own site at work.]. Our dream matchup - the United States versus Brazil in the gold medal final - totally came true. And after a quick forty-five minutes, heavily favored southlander Misty May and Stanford grad Kerri Walsh prevailed over Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede in straight sets, 21-17 and 21-11.