Washington Post
What, are we going to have an athlete provide a nationally televised apology to a well-known broadcaster every week now? If so, I have a short list of candidates, and I’m sure you do, too.
ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap got Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o first, although off-camera, and because the World Wide Leader is so great at branding, can “ESPN: Confessional” be far behind?
Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the... more »
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who has been publicly identified as being behind the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, called a church friend in early December crying and admitted to duping the Heisman finalist, the friend told Outside... more »
As Deadspin laid out in brutal detail on Wednesday, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend is neither dead nor Manti Te’o’s girlfriend nor a corporeal being. Te’o and Lennay Kekua never met on the field at... more »
Much of what made the 2012 Notre Dame football season feel magical is unraveling before our very eyes. The Irish, who deftly walked a tightrope of destiny to the national championship game, were swiftly knocked to the ground by... more »
So what can we believe anymore? That, sadly, is the takeaway from the Manti Te’o story, which might be the most convoluted and jaw-dropping sports story in, well, ever. Cynicism has taken over everything about sports in this... more »
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