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Reports: Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o victim of hoax university says

Posted at 6:36 PM, Jan 16, 2013
and last updated 2013-01-16 23:35:36-05

It was widely reported that Notre Dame football play Manti Te’o's grandmother and girlfriend had passed away on the same day. It was a heartbreaking, heroic tale but only half of it is true, apparently. The website Deadspin.com reveals that Te'o's girlfriend never existed.