Manti Te'o's supposedly dead girlfriend is a hoax - Deadspin

[Mad Mike]

Washington Redskins duped by woman with fake online identity

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...nline-identity

[Heisenberg]

You at least going to come out and admit you were wrong about Te'o lying after December 6th?

[youngchew]

Interview with Katie Couric is tomorrow night i believe

[Heisenberg]

Interview with Katie Couric is tomorrow night i believe

Can't imagine anything new will come from the interview except for the fact that it's leaked that he admitted he lied after he found out on December 6th. The problem is he frames it as though he lied because he was asked questions about it but if you look at the interviews and twitter feed you see that he was volunteering the information without even being asked about it.

[Shiv]

Washington Redskins duped by woman with fake online identity

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...nline-identity

Isn't that the girl from HTTR 24/7? Wasn't she supposedly one of the insiders? I'm really confused.

[Enter Apotheosis]

Isn't that the girl from HTTR 24/7? Wasn't she supposedly one of the insiders? I'm really confused.

Yes... they figured it out and gave her the boot a little while ago. Wouldn't be surprised if they tipped off the team, either.

[brandymac27]

Yes... they figured it out and gave her the boot a little while ago. Wouldn't be surprised if they tipped off the team, either.

Yep. Read LL's timeline on Twitter. That's all they're talking about. Pretty interesting.

[Bacon]

http://deadspin.com/5978410/

OK, OK, I'll eat my crow. If these phone records reflect reality (they're just a crappy spreadsheet that ESPN made up, not the actual records), that's fairly convincing evidence in favor of Te'o merely being a dimwit. Much more convincing than Te'o and ND covering their asses with lame alibis.

[I_Bleed_B&G]

[RonArtest15]

NYDN reporting that the "female" on the other end of the line that Te'o spent hours talking to was no other Roniah Tuiosopo...SMH.

Anyone still really believe this guy, Te'o?

*edit*

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN

NY Daily News is reporting that the female voice on the other end of the hoax line was that of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/co...icle-1.1246480 …

[Btubes18]

For all those people that were backin Te'o...the man straight up lied to EVERYONE. I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually comes out that he was in on it the whole time.

[Heisenberg]

NYDN reporting that the "female" on the other end of the line that Te'o spent hours talking to was no other Roniah Tuiosopo...SMH.

Anyone still really believe this guy, Te'o?

*edit*

Story is so insane and hard to believe that I've just stopped believing anything everyone has said. I'm just assuming 100% of what I hear is BS

The longer it goes on the more ridiculous it gets. Also find it funny that a "source" gave ESPN a spreadsheet containing phone records when it would been 100x easier and more believable to grab the .pdf of the records and scrub whatever names/numbers they didn't want revealed.

[Duckus]

While it seems obvious that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was behind the hoax . . . . . who the hell was Manti talking to for 10 hours a day? There has to be a female involved with the hoax who was willing to spend 50% of her time for 1 year keeping the hoax alive.

Manti said they would talk on the phone all night and sleep with the phone on and then start talking when they woke up.

Ronaiah could do texting, facebook, chat, etc . .. but someone was talking for hours on the phone. I want to know who that is, because that person is straight up insane. Who spends HOURS of their time per day on the phone talking for 1 year straight? Straight up crazy.

This was the issue I had. This is going to get interesting.

[skinsfan_1215]

I assumed all along that the voice on the other end was Tuiasosopo, his boyfriend, and they were using Lennay as a cover. It makes 1000x more sense than him talking for hundreds of hours with a fake girlfriend and thinking it was a girl. But sure, people can keep saying it's ridiculous if you want.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

I assumed all along that the voice on the other end was Tuiasosopo, his boyfriend, and they were using Lennay as a cover. It makes 1000x more sense than him talking for hundreds of hours with a fake girlfriend and thinking it was a girl. But sure, people can keep saying it's ridiculous if you want.

That's still a huge leap to make. If he was simply covering up for being gay, then why the car accident, then the illness, then the death, then the re-emergence? If he's behind all of this, the fake events make absolutely no sense.