Negro Footballer Gets 15 Years to Life for Going Bananas on His Coalburner Wife

Anthony McClanahan.

I guess he won’t be going pro after all.

That’s a shame. With a murder conviction under his belt, he’d have made a fine addition to the Negro Felon League.

Bakersfield:

Former Bakersfield High School football star and NFL prospect Anthony McClanahan has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the 2017 murder of his wife in Utah, local media reported Monday.

McClanahan, 47, pleaded guilty in March to the killing of his wife, Keri Colleen McClanahan, 28, as part of a plea deal offered by Utah prosecutors, according to Fox 13 Salt Lake City.

The television news crew reported that prosecutors agreed to remove multiple charges, including a domestic violence designation, a weapons enhancement and a separate kidnapping case, from the former athlete in exchange for the guilty plea.

Keri, who went by the nickname “KC,” was found by local police in November 2017 to have suffered multiple defensive wounds, including knife wounds to her throat, according to local media.

McClanahan initially claimed that he and his wife were attacked by two or three men at a condominium complex in Park City, Utah. However, police found no signs of forced entry or anyone matching the description of the attackers on surveillance footage, the Park Record reported at the time of the guilty plea.

Keri’s sister, Heather Gauf, told the Salt Lake Tribune there had been a history of domestic violence and physical abuse.

Keri McClanahan.