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and he was soon known as "Sad Irish Fan" – he said he figured setting up an anti-cancer fundraiser in the memory of Manti Te'o's deceased girlfriend was a nice way to capitalize on the attention.

Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame linebacker who nearly won ... Brown says "the proper authorities will continue to investigate" what he says was "a sad and very cruel deception." Te'o said that to ...

Manti Te'o, a star linebacker at Notre Dame ... this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators." ...

The only real question now, it seems, is whether Manti Te’o was the catfisher or the catfishee ... at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.

By Jordan Zakarin David Letterman Manti Te'o Inset - P 2013 A giant hoax ... And then one time, it was really sad, a beautiful woman actually faked her death to get out of going to the prom ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Lennay Kekua, the dead girlfriend of star Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o, was the subject of an elaborate hoax that was "a sad and very cruel deception" and was ...

Notre Dame officials subsequently stood by Te'o, saying a probe they conducted showed the two had "exclusively an online relationship" and that he had been the victim of a "sad and very cruel ...

“That’s the nature of this sad, cruel game.” Swarbrick added: “Nothing about what I have learned has shaken my faith in Manti Te’o one iota.” Swarbrick said Notre Dame did not take the ...

So Ronaiah tricked Manti. He didn't intend ... it became a national story. So sad. When questions about the story came to the Notre Dame campus, Te'o embellished the extent of their relationship ...