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Americans this week have been asking questions about a star football player, Manti Te'o.
Manti Te’o is a linebacker for the University of Notre Dame, a school in Indiana. He helped the team win all of its twelve games in the 2012 regular season. His team went on to the college football’s national championship game. It lost to University of Alabama.
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Te’o led Notre Dame in tackles and interceptions. He was a nominee for an important honor in college football, the Heisman Trophy.
When asked about his performance on the field, Manti Te’o said he played well because of his girlfriend, who died recently. He said the girlfriend, Lennay Marie Kekua, was a victim of the disease leukemia. He said she died on the same day that his grandmother died last September.
But, there was a problem. The girlfriend never existed. Last week, a sports website, Deadspin, reported that the story was not true. When the website asked Notre Dame about it, university officials said the story was a “sophisticated hoax.”
In a statement, Te’o said he had met the woman through the Internet and continued the relationship online. He added that the whole incident had been painful and humiliating. Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said Manti Te’o told the university about the problem on December 26th. He said a private investigation ordered by the university suggested that the player was a victim of a mean joke.
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