Henny Ray Abrams
By now we're all familiar with the story of Manti Te'o—how he captured football fans' hearts, how he led his team to the national championship game despite the fact that his grandmother and his girlfriend had both died on the same day last September.
We're also asking ourselves how Te'o could be fooled into loving an imaginary girlfriend named Lennay Kekua, described as a Stanford undergraduate dying of leukemia whom he'd never met.
Reporters are now wondering whether Te'o was truly hoaxed, or whether he was complicit. They ask why he never visited his girlfriend in person—they had been in touch for four years, after all, chatting by Facebook message, texting, calling each other on the phone. How could he not be a bit suspicious?
But they never ask...
"Maybe I sound too convinced," ESPN's Jeremy Schaap said at one point during his breathless 14-minute live report just after interviewing Manti Te'o for two-and-a-half hours late Friday, "but I'm just telling you the way Te'o... 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 »
The media pundits are confounded (now there's a shock). The talking heads on various sports gab shows expressed utter confusion on the Manti Te'o fake dead girlfriend saga. They want to point fingers, but are too perplexed by... 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 »
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