Football star's dead girlfriend an online hoax

By Ferd Lewis

~~<p>A voice seemingly from the grave has come back to haunt Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te’o, whose inspirational story had made him the sympathetic focus of the Fighting Irish’s bid for a national championship.</p>
<p>Describing himself as an embarrassed victim of “someone’s sick joke” concerning a fictional girlfriend who was purported to have died early in the season, Oahu native Te’o and the school Wednesday said he was taken in by a sophisticated online hoax.</p>
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A voice seemingly from the grave has come back to haunt Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te’o, whose inspirational story had made him the sympathetic focus of the Fighting Irish’s bid for a national championship.

Describing himself as an embarrassed victim of “someone’s sick joke” concerning a fictional girlfriend who was purported to have died early in the season, Oahu native Te’o and the school Wednesday said he was taken in by a sophisticated online hoax. Login for more...