Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Manti Te'o has already tried to explain how his heartwarming story of playing through adversity was a lie he wasn't responsible for, how he was the victim of a cruel hoax about a dead girlfriend who never existed. He...

Manti Te'o and Notre Dame announced Wednesday that the linebacker was a victim of a hoax and that the girlfriend he thought had died in September actually never existed. The revelation came only after Deadspin.com reported as much earlier in the day....

LONDON -- A nurse who took a hoax call from two Australian disc jockeys asking about the condition of Kate Middleton, Prince William’s pregnant wife, has been found dead, the hospital where the woman worked confirmed Friday. British news reports,...

Now we know why Notre Dame's football hero Manti Te'o played so poorly against Alabama in the national championship game Jan. 7. His heart was broken, kind of, by a woman who didn't exist. It was all in Deadspin, an Internet sports blog, on Wednesday,...

LONDON -- A hoax call from Australia duped staff at the London hospital where  Catherine Middleton, the duchess of Cambridge, was recovering from acute morning sickness into giving details of her condition, the medical facility revealed Wednesday. The...

SOUTH BEND -- The silence finally ended as Friday night turned into Saturday morning. But will there ever really be a finish line to college football’s feel-good story turned bizarre and all of its tentacles? At least Manti Te’o provided a...

SUNRISE — As if a sold-out arena didn't say enough … as if the Panthers weren't excited about starting this season enough … as if anyone reading the lies and hoaxes this week wasn't looking forward to an actual game enough …...

SOUTH BEND - The emotion choked Jack Swarbrick as he finally encountered a question that pushed him out of his measured, pragmatic flow. "There's a lot of tragedy here," the Notre Dame athletic director said at a press conference Wednesday night, hastily...

Manti Te’o will sit down with Katie Couric this week to discuss the hoax surrounding his now infamous fake girlfriend’s death. According to ABC News, the Notre Dame linebacker and his family will open up about the situation on Couric’s...

SOUTH BEND -- As much as Jim Carrier had dealt with the absurd in the past month, the Mormon bishop said he was still blind-sided by a recent interview request from People magazine. That he is Manti Te'o's bishop and spiritual adviser helps explain the...

The distress call came Sunday around 1 p.m.: emergency in Beverly Hills. Someone was being held hostage at "Simon Cowell's." The victim, reported a female caller, was tied up with duct tape inside a bathroom at the brash British "X Factor" judge's...

2012 -- Sept. 11: Te'o's grandmother, Annette Santiago, dies in Hawaii. -- Sept. 13: Te'o tweets at 2:14 a.m.: "I may not hear your voice anymore but I do feel your presence!" Followers reply with tweets of condolences about his "girlfriend's" apparent...