Tag Archives: Manti Te’o
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Maxim Names Lennay Kekua, Manti Te’os Fake Dead Girlfriend, to their Hot 100 List (Pic)
Are you sick of hearing about Lennay Kekua, the fake dead girlfriend of Manti Te’o? Yeah, we certainly thought so, which is why we’ve tried hard not to bring you any more Lennay Kekua/Manti Te’o stories here at TotalProSports. However, the folks over at Maxim do not think you are sick of all this nonsense, [...]
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Manti Te’o's Fake Dead Girlfriend Lennay Kekua Won ESPN’s March Madness Bracket Challenge
Last night the Louisville Cardinals beat the Michigan Wolverines to take home the 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship. In the process, they brought to a close tens of thousands of March Madness pools around the world, including ESPN’s Bracket Challenge. So who won the $10,000 gift card to Best Buy? Oh, just the fake [...]
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NFL Draft Combine: Manti Te’o Takes a Spill (Video)
Manti Te’o has been under a microscope during his appearance at the 2013 NFL Draft Combine following an impressive senior season that saw him become one of the most decorated defensive players in NCAA history, as he earned several honors, including the Lott Trophy, the Maxwell Award, the Bronco Nagurski Trophy and the Butkus Award. [...]
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This Autotuned Manti Te’o Video is a Classic
Look, I know you’re sick of hearing about Manti Te’o and the dead girlfriend hoax. But trust me, this is worth it. Remember the “Bed Intruder Song,” in which the “hide yo kids, hide yo wife” guy Antoine Dobson got autotuned? Or the “Double Rainbow Song,” in which that funny hippy’s reaction to a double [...]
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Here’s Manti Te’o's Interview with Katie Couric (Videos)
So yesterday was Manti Te’o‘s big interview with Katie Couric (Hey, Oprah, what happened?). It was the first time he or his family had appeared on TV since Deadspin broke the news about his fake dead girlfriend, and overall I think he comes off as pretty believable. How so? Well, in one five minute segment, we [...]
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Here’s a Preview of Manti Te’o's Interview with a Skeptical Katie Couric (Video)
Remember last week, when the Manti Te’o fake girlfriend story broke and we knew so little about it that we could only speculate wildly and cook up whatever nutty theories we wanted? Yep, those were the golden days. This week the story is a lot less fun—because Manti Te’o and the other key figures in [...]
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The Rock Takes a Jab at Manti Te’o During WWE Monday Night Raw (Video)
Poor Manti Te’o. Even though it’s looking more and more like he really was just an innocent dupe, the mark in a vicious and elaborate con, the jokes go on. First, of course, came the Te’oing phenomenon—which was bad enough when random strangers on the internet did it, but even worse when a professional sports [...]
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Ronaiah Tuiasosopo Confessed Manti Te'o Fake Girlfriend Hoax to a Friend
Was Manti Te'o involved in orchestrating the entire story surrounding the tragic death of his fake girlfriend, Lanny Kukua? Or was he the victim of some cruel hoax? That is the question that many have been asking over the past couple of days, and it appears as though an answer may finally be surfacing. According to ESPN's “Outside [...]
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Sports Illustrated Is Tyring to Figure Out How They Were Duped by this Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax
Since the story about the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax broke late Wednesday afternoon, so many questions have been asked that, unfortunately, curious minds have no way of answering. However, there is one question that we can begin to answer, and that is, how in the hell did all the media sources not notice that this [...]
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11 Totally Plausible Theories About the Manti Te’o Dead Girlfriend Hoax
So everyone knows now that the moving story about how Manti Te’o’s girlfriend died back in September was false, and that said girlfriend never existed. But a lot of questions are still unanswered. And that, of course, opens the door to a lot of different theories about what really happened. Want to see a sampling [...]
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Manti Te'o's Fake Girlfriend Hoax Explained by NMA World Taiwanese Animation (Video)
Even with Lance Armstrong's highly-anticipated interview with Oprah set to air tonight, the entire sports world has been focused on the whole <strong http://exbacksms.com/ how to get your ex back >Manti Te'o fake girlfriend ordeal, which has inspired the creation of its very own internet meme called “Te'oing,” while causing many to question whether Te'o [...]
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Te'oing is the New Tebowing (Photos)
On October 23, 2011, Tim Tebow got down on one knee and said a little prayer on the football field following the Denver Broncos' 18-15 come-from-behind victory over the Miami Dolphins in overtime. Suddenly, Tebowing was born. From that point, people everywhere began getting down on one knee, placing their elbow on their other knee [...]
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Manti Te’o's Dead Girlfriend Never Existed
If you’re looking for one of the most bizarre sports stories of all time, you’re in the right place. After months and months of “mainstream media” reports about the inspirational story of Manti Te’o and how in September he played through the heartache of losing his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, to leukemia, Deadspin.com did something nobody [...]
