It's all over the news. CNN, MSN, ABC, NBC, CBS, ESPN even the EIEIO are covering the Manti Te'o story. If your head has been buried in the sand for the past week or so, it appears that Notre Dame standout Linebacker Manti Te'o has been involved in some sort of perpetrated scam. It seems that Te'o may have had what we all thought was an online and telephone romance with a woman named Lennay Kekua. You will notice here that I will be using words like may, supposedly, allegedly and possibly since nothing is really clear on this debacle. At a point in this relationship, Te'o claims that he received a call from her number where an individual stated that Kekua had passed away from Leukemia right around the same time his grandmother died. Even after all of this heartache, Manti played like a Champion and became the runner up for the bogus Heisman Trophy. He also won several other college football awards including the Butkis and Bednarik trophies. Our hearts wept with Te'o and we admired him as a warrior on the field.
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On December 26th, Te'o approached his coaches and told them that Lennay Kekua was not a real person and he had been duped. This prompted Notre Dame officials to hire an out side firm to do a thorough investigation on the alleged scam with the results being made public last Thursday. Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick held a press conference which confirmed that their star football players was bamboozled. Not only was this person not who she said she was, she was not dead either. Of course, several media outlets started their own investigations and things are just not adding up. It was found that Te'o did in fact mention that he actually met this girl for the first time in 2009. His father stated in an interview that Manti actually spent time with this woman when The Irish played at Stanford this year. The South Bend Tribune also reported that the two got together in Hawaii where Te'o grew up. Now as the story unfolds, people are asking why Manti Te'o may not have been forthcoming with details about this relationship as the story unfolded?
Let me tell you what my questions are. Why the hell is this even a story? Why have all these national media companies jumped on this story like it was the end of the world. Hell, American hostages were taken in Algeria this week and this story is not getting as much press as the Manti debacle. I don't get it? This story should be a non issue to everyone except Te'o, the University of Notre Dame and any authorities that may get involved if a crime was actually committed. If this were any other college or any other player, this would be a non issue. It would be a chuckle around the water cooler. Right now people are dropping like flies from the flu, we are teetering on the fiscal cliff and assault weapon murders are through the roof. Why on earth would anyone focus so intensely on a story about a college student athlete who may have been duped by a cat fishing bimbo? It drives me insane!
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