Media Camp Out at IMG Academy for Manti Te'o
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o is working out at the IMG Academy for the NFL Combine, but is in the midst of a hoax controversy concerning an online relationship.
Even though there was no chance Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o would speak to the media, several news outlets showed up in front of IMG Academy to get a glimpse of the athlete at the center of a hoax controversy. The fascination around Te'o broke Wednesday night, when a Deadspin article revealed that Te'o's supposed girlfriend Lennay Kekua, did not die from leukemia in September or from anything else because she might not have been alive in the first place, as that doesn't appear to be the woman's identity in this online relationship: "But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis…
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Jeffrey Rosenfield
1:26 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
Interesting comment since the entire country is talking about this right now. Seems like some people must care about it. more ›