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Today, Explained

Wrestling with Ohio State

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan wants to be the next Speaker of the House, but a pack of wrestlers could be blocking his path. Corky Siemaszko broke the story for NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Sometimes a reporter reads a story and it triggers an idea for another story.

0:35.0

It's Korki Shimashko, I'm a reporter with NBC News Digital.

0:39.0

A few months ago, Korki was reading about a sex scandal in Ohio.

0:43.0

I was looking for a story in the Columbus Dispatch when I stumbled upon the story from May 3rd

0:49.0

about the investigation into Dr. Richard Strauss, who was the team physician for the wrestling

0:55.0

and other teams at IAS state for many years.

0:58.0

Sexual misconduct allegations 40 years in the making at the Ohio State University.

1:03.0

Officials say the alleged misconduct happened in the mid 1970s to late 1990s.

1:08.0

Well, Ohio State is investigating a former trainer for the Buckeye Wrestling Team,

1:13.0

the trainer Dr. Richard Strauss.

1:16.0

Dr. Strauss died in 2005.

1:18.0

Now, University officials say the Attorney General will use resources from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation

1:23.0

to help look into the allegations.

1:25.0

Korki nearly got through the whole story before something struck him.

1:29.0

And I got to the very bottom and there was a quote from Congressman Jim Jordan,

1:33.0

who was an assistant wrestling coach at one time.

1:36.0

And it was a pretty strident quote saying, basically,

1:39.0

I had not heard about any type of abuse at all.

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