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T'eo's girlfriend death a hoax?

  • vball10set
    I wish he'd just get up in front of a microphone and clear the air. Until we hear his version, there's too much left out there to speculate on.
  • Midstate01
    vball10set;1369174 wrote:I wish he'd just get up in front of a microphone and clear the air. Until we hear his version, there's too much left out there to speculate on.

    The longer he waits the longer he has to make sure he has no holes in his lies.
  • killer_ewok
    vball10set;1369174 wrote:I wish he'd just get up in front of a microphone and clear the air. Until we hear his version, there's too much left out there to speculate on.
    Agreed.
  • sherm03
    vball10set;1369174 wrote:I wish he'd just get up in front of a microphone and clear the air. Until we hear his version, there's too much left out there to speculate on.
    Definitely agree.
  • Terry_Tate
    sherm03;1369018 wrote:The Florence Freedom (a minor league baseball team in Florence, KY just south of Cincinnati) is planning a "Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Bobblehead Night" on May 23rd. First 1,000 people to the ballpark receive an empty box.

    God I love minor league baseball.
    www.florencefreedom.com/newsnotes.php?nID=370

    "To add to the imaginary fun, section 115 will be blocked and reserved only for fans to sit with their imaginary friends, girlfriends/boyfriends or spouses. There will also be a make pretend kiss cam, air guitar contest and an imaginary food fight outside the Airheads Kids Zone."

    My office is literally less than a mile from where the Florence Freedom play. That is outstanding.
  • karen lotz
    vball10set;1369174 wrote:I wish he'd just get up in front of a microphone and clear the air. Until we hear his version, there's too much left out there to speculate on.


    yup
  • sleeper
    Terry_Tate;1369189 wrote:www.florencefreedom.com/newsnotes.php?nID=370

    "To add to the imaginary fun, section 115 will be blocked and reserved only for fans to sit with their imaginary friends, girlfriends/boyfriends or spouses. There will also be a make pretend kiss cam, air guitar contest and an imaginary food fight outside the Airheads Kids Zone."

    My office is literally less than a mile from where the Florence Freedom play. That is outstanding.
    You should go to the game. I'm loving this. Te'o is an absolutely piece of shit human being and he deserves everything he gets from this.
  • sherm03
    Terry_Tate;1369189 wrote:www.florencefreedom.com/newsnotes.php?nID=370

    "To add to the imaginary fun, section 115 will be blocked and reserved only for fans to sit with their imaginary friends, girlfriends/boyfriends or spouses. There will also be a make pretend kiss cam, air guitar contest and an imaginary food fight outside the Airheads Kids Zone."

    My office is literally less than a mile from where the Florence Freedom play. That is outstanding.
    I didn't hear about that part. That is absolutely hilarious! Well done Florence Freedom.
  • vball10set
    ^^^I think it's funny and creative as hell, but how relevant will this story be in 5 months? just wondering
  • sleeper
    vball10set;1369204 wrote:^^^I think it's funny and creative as hell, but how relevant will this story be in 5 months? just wondering
    Eternity. Add this to the continual long list of black eyes on ND football program; from the death of a child, to a rape and subsequent suicide of another innocent child, to the complete fabrication of someone's death for pure publicity. ND is rife with issues they continuously sweep under the veil of their arrogant private university status.
  • karen lotz
    http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8857057/friend-says-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-confessed-manti-teo-girlfriend-hoax
    Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man who has been publicly identified as being behind the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, called a church friend in early December crying and admitted to duping the Heisman finalist, the friend told Outside the Lines Thursday.

    The friend, a woman in her mid-20s, agreed to be interviewed under the condition that she not be identified, saying she was fearful for her family's safety because of the overwhelming publicity the story has generated. In the interview, she did allow for her voice to be recorded.

    She says Tuiasosopo gave her the tearful confession and account of how he played, what he said was at first a game, on the unsuspecting Te'o. And, she says, he told her that it wasn't the first time he had done it.

    "He (Ronaiah) told me that Manti was not involved at all, he was a victim. ... The girlfriend was a lie, the accident was a lie, the leukemia was a lie," said the woman. "He was crying, he was literally crying, he's like 'I know, I know what I have to do.'

    "It's not only Manti, but he was telling me that it's a lot of other people they had done this to."

    Notre Dame issued a news release Wednesday after Deadspin.com reported it could find no record of Lennay Kekua, Te'o's supposed girlfriend, existing.

    Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a news conference Wednesday night that coaches were informed by Te'o and his parents on Dec. 26 that Te'o had been the victim of what appeared to be a hoax. Someone using a fictitious name "apparently ingratiated herself" with Te'o, the school said, then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had died of leukemia.

    Swarbrick said that the relationship took place online and over the phone. Te'o had described staying on the phone with whom he thought was Kekua for hours each night over many months. Tuiasosopo's friend from church told ESPN that Tuiasosopo admitted to having his female cousin speak to Te'o over the phone.

    OTL also interviewed two other people who said they have a cousin who had the same online hoax pulled on them by Tuiasosopo.

    J.R. Vaosa, 28, of Torrance, Calif., and Celeste Tuioti-Mariner, 21, of Whittier, said that in 2008 their cousin began an online romance with a woman who portrayed herself as a model. Vaosa said the cousin showed Vaosa a picture on MySpace of a woman from a Victoria's Secret catalog that he said was Kekua. Vaosa said that the online Kekua would agree to meet his cousin at certain places. Vaosa said he went with the cousin to meet her.

    "When Lennay said she was gonna be at this park one day, we'd go to the park and Ronaiah pops up and then we go to the gym in Orange County where the kids have volleyball tournaments, Ronaiah's there," Vaosa said.

    Finally, the family convinced Vaosa's cousin that something wasn't right and he needed to cut things off not only with Kekua, but Tuiasosopo, whom they were convinced was the real Kekua, Tuioti-Mariner said.

    "I just knew that my cousin would invite her to certain events and Lennay would always say she would go to those things, but she would never end up going and instead of her going we would see Ronaiah," Tuioti-Mariner said.

    Then this fall, Vaosa and Tuioti-Mariner saw the story of Te'o's dying girlfriend.

    "When I found out about the Samoan football player (and) his girlfriend, his Grandma died the same day, I was like, 'Whoa this is crazy,' I feel so bad for him, so I just looked him up," Vaosa said. "I found out his girlfriend's name was Lennay Kekua. And right when I read the name Lennay Kekua, I immediately thought of Ronaiah. Then I thought of my cousin -- that this has to be the same person."

    The cousins say they were convinced Te'o was being victimized, but say they were uncertain of what to do. They say they began tweeting their suspicions. Many of their tweets were laced with sarcasm including claims that "they" were the real Lennay Kekua. After Deadspin.com broke the story on Te'o and Swarbrick held a news conference, Vaosa and Tuioti-Mariner found reporters at their door and say there were threats made to them and their families on Twitter.

    [B]Another person involved in the hoax has come forward as well. The woman whose photos were portrayed as Kekua was identified by Inside Edition as Diane O'Meara. Her lawyer told the program that her client is also a victim and that her photos were stolen and used to create the illusion of Te'o's girlfriend.

    Deadspin.com reported in its original story that the woman whose images were used as Kekua's was actually a former high school classmate of Tuiasosopo and that he used a ruse to get her to send him at least one photo.

    [B]Meanwhile, the woman who says Tuiasosopo confessed to her says she has urged Tuiasosopo to take responsibility for his actions.

    [B]She said he called her Wednesday as the news of the hoax was breaking. She says he sounded calm but she worries about his guilt, to what he did to Te'o and what he did to his family name, one of the most prominent in all of Polynesian sports. She worries what he might do to himself.

    "I (still) am worried for him (Ronaiah), not just him and his family but I know that you can't judge people like that and that's why I continue to just encourage (him) to come out and tell the truth," she said.    [/B][/B][/B]
  • vball10set
    ^^^I didn't say it would be forgotten, but this event won't have the same humorous impact in June as it would now. Time has a way of lessening the effect of things like this.
  • ernest_t_bass
    karen lotz;1369164 wrote:might be breaking news to Sportscenter, but news crews have been outside his house since Wednesday night. They just broke in to The Herd and said a woman contacted Shelly Smith saying Touisosopo confessed to her he was behind it.
    Thanks, fact checker.
  • vball10set
    sleeper;1369211 wrote:Eternity. Add this to the continual long list of black eyes on ND football program; from the death of a child, to a rape and subsequent suicide of another innocent child, to the complete fabrication of someone's death for pure publicity. ND is rife with issues they continuously sweep under the veil of their arrogant private university status.
    I didn't say it would be forgotten, but this event won't have the same humorous impact in June as it would now. Time has a way of lessening the effect of things like this.
  • ernest_t_bass
    sleeper;1369211 wrote:Eternity. Add this to the continual long list of black eyes on ND football program; from the death of a child, to a rape and subsequent suicide of another innocent child, to the complete fabrication of someone's death for pure publicity. ND is rife with issues they continuously sweep under the veil of their arrogant private university status.
    You could only assume the Brian Kelly will get a contract extension, just for what you mentioned.
  • ernest_t_bass
  • karen lotz
    ernest_t_bass;1369214 wrote:Thanks, fact checker.
    ernest_t_bass;1369218 wrote:

    Its pretty clear not too many on here are looking for actual facts, so that isn't shocking.
  • sleeper
    ernest_t_bass;1369216 wrote:You could only assume the Brian Kelly will get a contract extension, just for what you mentioned.
    I personally hope he does. He's never won a BCS bowl game and he never will. I feel 10 years is appropriate given what ND did for Weis.
  • sleeper
    karen lotz;1369221 wrote:Its pretty clear not too many on here are looking for actual facts, so that isn't shocking.
    And some here won't face reality(namely ND fans). Your best LB ever is a fraud. Sorry!
  • Terry_Tate
    sleeper;1369196 wrote:You should go to the game. I'm loving this. Te'o is an absolutely piece of **** human being and he deserves everything he gets from this.
    I'll definitely be there and will post a picture of my bobblehead, haha.
  • ernest_t_bass
    karen lotz;1369221 wrote:Its pretty clear not too many on here are looking for actual facts, so that isn't shocking.
    LOL:

    News: "Pro Notre Dame. Te'o not Gay!!!"
    Lotz: "ZOMG! Real newz! Real factz!"
    News: "Anti Notre Dame. Te'o in on it!!!??"
    Lotz: "No is factz."
  • queencitybuckeye
    The facts are failrly simple. What started as a prank ended as Te'o knowing and lying about it. The only thing in dispute is when he found out.
  • ernest_t_bass
    queencitybuckeye;1369231 wrote:The facts are failrly simple. What started as a prank ended as Te'o knowing and lying about it. The only thing in dispute is when he found out.
    It's anti-Notre Dame, so it can't be facts.

  • sleeper
    Terry_Tate;1369229 wrote:I'll definitely be there and will post a picture of my bobblehead, haha.
    Not sure if pulling a Te'o or...
  • vball10set
    queencitybuckeye;1369231 wrote:The facts are failrly simple. What started as a prank ended as Te'o knowing and lying about it. The only thing in dispute is when he found out.
    That's why we need to hear from him.