Thursday, January 17, 2013

Discrepancies in the Manti Te'o 'Catfish' defense

Perhaps we'll never see something quite like the Manti Te'o story again. (It's hard to imagine something so convoluted and bizarre.) But you know that we'll have stories of overcoming adversity and beating the odds. Grandmothers will die, so will spouses.

(SOUTH BEND, Ind.) — Not long before Notre Dame played Michigan State last fall, word spread that Fighting Irish linebacker Manti Te'o had lost his grandmother and girlfriend within hours of each other.

The Manti Te'o not-really-dead-girlfriend hoax was perpetuated by a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — who served as a representative for the family of the…

Delicious. Since everyone in the world was reacting to the Manti Te'o hoax on the Internet Wednesday night and Thursday morning, D.C. athletes were reacting to the Manti Te'o hoax on the Internet Wednesday night and Thursday morning. A few examples:

The extraordinary Deadspin story detailing the non-existence of the girlfriend of Manti Te'o has utterly demolished this most recent effort at myth-making. There is still a lot we don't know about the story. But the only remaining shock about this

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Discrepancies in the Manti Te'o 'Catfish' defense

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