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Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend Never Existed
Deadspin ^ | January 16, 2013

Posted on 01/16/2013 3:05:31 PM PST by LibertyJihad

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 way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.

Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto.

Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadspin.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: girlfriend; manti; mantiteo; notredame; teo
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1 posted on 01/16/2013 3:05:47 PM PST by LibertyJihad
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To: LibertyJihad

But here he claims the woman was the love of his life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGgIwSc8M3M&feature=player_embedded

He is at the very least guilty of embellishing his relationship with this “woman.” More likely, he was in on the conspiracy and is not a victim as the ND statement would have you believe.


2 posted on 01/16/2013 3:10:36 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: LibertyJihad
Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend Never Existed

That should make her untimely death easier to bear

3 posted on 01/16/2013 3:11:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: LibertyJihad

4 posted on 01/16/2013 3:12:02 PM PST by Theoria
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To: LibertyJihad

Sounds like the press was just following their standard MO: publishing a pack of bu11$h^+ lies without being concerned about the facts. Hey . . . it sold their rags.


5 posted on 01/16/2013 3:12:17 PM PST by RatRipper (Self-centeredness, greed, envy, deceit and lawless corruption has killed this once great nation.)
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To: LibertyJihad

I got bored reading this crap. Too damn weird and too many lies.


6 posted on 01/16/2013 3:15:48 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: ConservativeTeen

ND should have attempted more Holy Mary passes against Alabama.

Bwaaaaaahaaha. Aaagh.


7 posted on 01/16/2013 3:18:21 PM PST by 353FMG ( I refuse to specify whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: onyx

Read through to the end myself. He was in this up to his ears. Sad, but, all more signs of our times. Wish we could get Deadspin working on the Obama case, but, unfortunate most of the writers and commenters there love him.


8 posted on 01/16/2013 3:25:01 PM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: LibertyJihad

cat fishing at its worst


9 posted on 01/16/2013 3:28:01 PM PST by Nifster
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To: RatRipper

Makes the Tide sweeping him aside even more schweeeeet! He’s a jerk, just the sort the enemy media love to push on the people.


10 posted on 01/16/2013 3:37:18 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: LibertyJihad

When did a Hawaiian (allegedly) lying to the nation become newsworthy?


11 posted on 01/16/2013 3:38:06 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: John W

This fishy tale just reeks of homosex.


12 posted on 01/16/2013 3:38:24 PM PST by STD ( People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face' but none of us can see theirs!)
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To: John W

This fishy tale just reeks of homosex.


13 posted on 01/16/2013 3:38:29 PM PST by STD ( People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face' but none of us can see theirs!)
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To: John W

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8851033/story-manti-teo-girlfriend-death-apparently-hoax


14 posted on 01/16/2013 3:40:21 PM PST by petitfour
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To: ConservaTexan

And he went to the same high school as Obama!


15 posted on 01/16/2013 3:40:42 PM PST by MisterI
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To: LibertyJihad
The lamestreamers bought into this charade almost as easily as they bought into Soetoro's Dreams From My Father. This story would have won an Emmy had it been one of the drama cases on American Idol.
16 posted on 01/16/2013 3:41:15 PM PST by immadashell
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To: LibertyJihad

Was she a composite?


17 posted on 01/16/2013 3:49:02 PM PST by PGalt
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To: STD

Manti Gay’o?


18 posted on 01/16/2013 3:58:36 PM PST by LibertyJihad
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To: LibertyJihad
This is a really weird story. Like something a teenager would do, not someone ready for the NFL.

In that regard, I question whether he is ready for the NFL. 'Bama's line and backers really handled him. By the second half he seemed to be avoiding them instead of running to make a play.

19 posted on 01/16/2013 4:00:25 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: John W

You have a grand idea there regarding the Marxist.

Sheesh, reading through this mess was tedious and I kept wondering, “what the heck was the point?” Delusional or what?

Lord have mercy.


20 posted on 01/16/2013 4:10:13 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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