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Stanley Wilson, the Cincinnati running back who...

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Stanley Wilson, the Cincinnati running back who disappeared after being barred from the Super Bowl because of a recurrence of substance abuse, contacted the Bengals to say he is with his parents.

Wilson was suspended hours before the Super Bowl in Miami--which the Bengals lost to San Francisco, 20-16--after missing a team meal and meeting.

Mike Brown, the Bengals’ assistant general manager, said Wilson had been seen in his hotel room Saturday night with what Brown said appeared to be rock cocaine.

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Coach Sam Wyche and other Bengal officials have said they consider Wilson’s playing career over because he was told in writing by Commissioner Pete Rozelle after two previous suspensions that his next drug incident would be the last one the league would tolerate.

“This is the third time,” General Manager Paul Brown said. “This is the end of it.”

The Bengals brought Wilson back to the team’s Miami headquarters hotel Saturday night, but he left the room, walked down a fire stairwell and was not heard from afterward until his call to the Bengals’ offices.

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