September 3, 2004

Foreign Athletes Suspended for Steroid Use in Their Sports Find New Homes on American Playing Fields

By WELCH SUGGS

Olympic sports are struggling with drug scandals, and a handful of American colleges are taking advantage.

Lining up this fall for the Gladiators football team of Chabot College will be Dwain A. Chambers. A British citizen, Mr. Chambers is a world-class sprinter who has been serving a two-year ban from track and field since testing positive for THG, a banned steroid, a year ago. He is alleged to have obtained the drug from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, known as Balco, the target