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Notre Dame's Star Football Player Had A Made-Up Dead Girlfriend

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According to Deadspin, Manti Te'o — Notre Dame's star linebacker and a Heisman trophy finalist — was involved in a yearlong hoax regarding a fake girlfriend who died of leukemia.

This is Manti Te'o.

This is Manti Te'o.

Manti Te'o is one of the best college football players in the country, a presumed first-round pick in the NFL draft, and the captain and star linebacker for Notre Dame, the storied program that lost in this year's National Championship against Alabama. And, according to a Deadspin report by Jack Dickey and Tim Burke published today, Te'o might have been involved in one of the strangest, most blood-chilling hoaxes in sports history.

Image by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/MCT

Stories about Lennay Kekua and Te'o have run in multiple national publications, including Sports Illustrated and on CBS News.

Stories about Lennay Kekua and Te'o have run in multiple national publications, including Sports Illustrated and on CBS News.


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