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$600MM renovation will be voted on by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Board of Regents on April 24.
 
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More than a dozen former NFL players join sex abuse lawsuits against Ohio State University

All say the late Dr. Richard Strauss preyed on them decades ago when they played football for the Buckeyes.
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SIAP elsewhere but since the seemingly endless sexual assault scandals appear to be a recurring B1G issue I thought I'd put it here. This broke my heart with regards to Al Washington's dad:

“When you play football, you encounter obstacles, and when I was a Buckeye, I decided not to let what happened to me defeat me, so I kept quiet,” Washington, 67, told NBC News ahead of the announcement Thursday. “But I’ve been living with this a long time, and it’s time to settle this once and for all.”

“I love Ohio State, but I want Ohio State to take some accountability for what happened to us,” said Washington, who later played for the New York Jets.

Like the other men suing the school, Washington and the other former OSU football players allege that Strauss sexually abused them under the guise of giving them the physicals they were required to undergo before they were allowed to play for OSU.

Washington, who runs a private insurance company in Columbus, Ohio, said he became aware of the scope of the Strauss abuse allegations and the legal actions against OSU several years after DiSabato went public in 2018 with allegations that Strauss sexually abused him and hundreds of other athletes and that the school knew about it but did nothing to stop him.

But Washington hesitated to come forward because he didn’t want to jeopardize the career of his son, also named Al Washington, who was then a linebackers coach at OSU and is now a linebackers coach for the Miami Dolphins.

“I didn’t want him to be penalized for something that affected me,” Washington said.
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