Thirty former Ohio State football players announced that they will join a lawsuit against the university over sexual abuse by former athletic department physician Richard Strauss . The group includes former NFL players Ray Ellis, Al Washington and Keith Ferguson. This is the latest flare in a damaging scandal first revealed eight years ago. In 2020, Sports Illustrated senior writer Jon Wertheim wrote a lengthy story, “ Why Aren’t More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal? ,” which was turned into the award-winning HBO documentary Surviving Ohio State . We checked in with him after this latest development. What does this mean? Most important, it means there were still more victims of a serial predator who was allowed to work on campus—and had virtually free reign to athletes and facilties—for nearly two decades. Dr. Strauss, who took his own life in 2005 and never faced his accusers, worked at the school from 1978 to 1996 and caused immeasurable harm.…