Story of Te'o girlfriend death apparently a hoax

Posted at: 01/16/2013 8:48 PM | Updated at: 01/16/2013 8:52 PM
By: Associated Press | WHEC.com

A story that Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia - a loss he said inspired him to help lead the Irish to the BCS championship game - was dismissed by the university Wednesday as a hoax perpetrated against the linebacker.
 
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says his faith has not been shaken in Te'o "one iota."
 
Swarbrick says an investigation by a firm the school hired has convinced him that Te'o was duped into an online relationship with a woman whose death was then faked by the perpetrators of the hoax.

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