I have never watched an episode of Dr. Phil, and am amazed he’s been on the air for 20 years. But today I saw that the show was covering the sexual abuse scandal of Dr. Robert Anderson at TSUN, so I clicked it on.
One guest was Jon Vaughn, who was a solid RB for them in the 1990 season, his 288 yards in one game is their third highest total ever. He said that he was subjected to 50 prostate exams by Anderson during his time on the football team. He also said that his semen was collected by Anderson (not sure exactly how) and was used in a study about performance of black athletes. He’s trying to find out what happened to those samples. Here’s an article about Vaughn’s
statements.
Two football players talked about coaches telling players who were wavering about practicing that if they didn’t practice they’d have to see Dr. Anderson. Apparently the coaches knew that avoiding visits to Dr. ‘Drop your Drawers’ was effective motivation for players.
A wrestler who complained back in the mid-70s, writing a letter to his coach saying that the Dr. always made guys drop their drawers, was cut from the team, and the abuse continued until Anderson retired in 2003. Guys with cauliflower ears had to have a prostate exam whenever they went to see Anderson.
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Another guest was Chuck Christian, whose story is covered
here.
A lot of this stuff is almost 2 years old, but the protests and lawsuits continue.
Some of them are wearing this slogan on their T-Shirts:
Hail to the Victims.
