The biggest story of last night's NFL draft wasn't who got picked in the first round, but who didn't. Specifically, Manti Te'o.
After questions were raised over the legality of asking potential NFL draft picks questions about their sexuality, the NFL is now investigating which teams posed such questions and cracking down on whether or not they're legal.
Now that National Football League executives are asking players about their sexual orientation — not just wondering in the shadows about Manti Te'o but grilling them in job interviews — it may be time for the commissioner to do something. It may even be breaking the law.
Manti Te'o is reportedly raising eyebrows among general managers doing the hiring who "want to know" about his sexuality, even as teams refuse to speak out about gay players and critics charge that GMs still actively recruit players with criminal pasts.
This weekend is the NFL Combine, where the new crop of rookies run and jump and are analyzed by professional scouts before the annual draft. Among this year's crew is Manti Te'o. You may have heard of him. He dated a girl that didn't exist. The press had some questions for him.
The "confused" man behind the Manti Te'o fake-girlfriend hoax, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, is speaking out publicly for the first time — and it appears he'll confess to the whole thing and claim to be the voice of Lennay Kekua, all while coming out as gay.
Today in viral videos: proof that Charles Barkley should stick to his day job, proof that Australia is pretty scary, Manti Te'o gets auto-tuned, and more.
We've heard from duped Notre Dame star Manti Te'o himself. We're going to hear from the accused mastermind, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, next week. What's next in this strange, beautiful and truly weird adventure?
The New York Post is reporting today that the voice of supposedly duped Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o's non-existent girlfriend belongs not to admitted hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo but to Tuiasosopo's (female) cousin, Tino.
Te'o continues to maintain that he was duped into believing his fake girlfriend was real all along. But one commenter wants to know — if he's so easily fooled, how could he possibly be passing college-level courses?
Well that was strange, wasn't it?
In his much anticipated first on-camera interview since a fake-girlfriend hoax took over his career and everyone else's rumor-mongering obsession, the fallen Notre Dame star didn't let on too much — but Couric definitely went there.
Manti Te'o's interview with Katie Couric is set to air this afternoon, and from the sound of it, Te'o has come prepared.
It turns out that all those hours were spent talking to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, whose lawyer admits the alleged mastermind behind the fake-girlfriend hoax was disguising his own voice the whole time.
For anyone who thought Manti Te'o and his people were beginning to take control of the girlfriend-hoax fallout, well, it's starting to look like Katie Couric still isn't just your average daytime talk-show host.
We've all wanted to hear from Manti Te'o's other half—Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged mastermind who conceived Te'o fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, her fake fatal leukemia, and her fake car accident. According to Tuiasosopo's family, the hoaxer is ready to talk.
It was pretty clear this week that Oprah is the person to go to for blockbuster interviews, but don't tell that to Manti Te'o. It's not surprising that a guy who maintained a relationship without ever meeting his partner would buck conventional wisdom.
Gosh, remember Saturday Night Live? It's been over a month since we last hung out! If you were expecting strong, complex sketches that would bring the funny for the first episode of 2013, hosted by Jennifer Lawrence no less, and not lazy jokes about last week's news, well...
Manti Te'o finally gave his side of the story. Through everything we've learned in the few days since we found out his girlfriend Lennay Kekua was fake, it's amazing that Te'o still hadn't spoken publicly about it beyond a quick press statement. Now, he's denying everything.
The case of the Notre Dame star's fake girlfriend is unfolding quickly, and it's now looking like Manti Te'o wasn't the only one duped by the non-existent Lennay Kekua. An online identity scam addiction of sorts, involving multiple people and multiple victims, now centers on one man. Who is he? And how can we be so sure?
Today in celebrity gossip: There's a big rumor about Jodie and Mel going around, an odd new wrinkle in the Manti Te'o story is revealed, and see a list of what the Royal Family got as gifts last year.
A reality-show audition has raised some eyebrows, since the original report on Te'o had asked questions about the link between a car accident involving Tuiasosopo and an alleged car accident involving his non-existent girlfriend.
There is no Lennay Kekua, but the woman whose image was used to create Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend appears to be this marketing executive in Los Angeles. She won't be telling her side of the story right now, but huge questions remain.
Howard Kurtz on the media and Manti Te'o, Paul Krugman on the deficit non-crisis, Jill Lepore on Roe v. Wade at 40, Mimi Whitefield on Cuba's travel restrictions, and Molly Redden on Teddy Turner.
Jessica Chastain is totally the new Lennay Kekua.
Whether you believe them or not, the explanations given to us by Notre Dame and Manti Te'o fail to cover all of the relationship's tracks: What made Te'o so vulnerable? Why did his parents buy in? If Notre Dame knew he was a victim, why didn't the school say anything? And why did Te'o keep speaking out in public?
Whether you're a sports fan or not, it's hard not to stare slack-jawed at the very curious saga of Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o and Lennay Kekua, his late girlfriend who doesn't actually exist. We've collected a handy digest to help you get the story straight.
In a lengthy new exposé, Deadspin reports that the saga of Lennay Kekua, the Notre Dame star's alleged girlfriend whose narrative was part of the Fighting Irish's return to the national spotlight, was dreamt up as a hoax perpetrated one of his friends.
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