Te'o's Fake Girlfriend

So, how 'bout Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend? (Here's the full original story at Deadspin.)

What the...?! It would be bad enough that he was "Catfished" by a male friend, but evidence shows Te'o claimed to have met this woman several times.

From ESPN:

In an interview with ESPN for College GameDay on Oct. 2, Te'o said that Kekua's last words to him were "I love you." He also said that she was "the most beautiful girl I've ever met."

From Deadspin:

Te'o and Kekua meet after Stanford's 45-38 victory over Notre Dame in Palo Alto, according to the South Bend Tribune: "Their stares got pleasantly tangled, then Manti Te'o extended his hand to the stranger with a warm smile and soulful eyes." Kekua, a Stanford student, swaps phone numbers with Te'o.

 and also

"Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there."

Yet, Notre Dame and most media outlets are going with the "poor Te'o was bamboozled by a fake online persona" angle.

Tsk tsk. It's not hard to see that it is the press, the university and the public who were bamboozled here.


Quantum leap...

LiveNation question on FB yesterday:

It was your first date. You wanted to set the mood. What was the first song on your mixed tape?

Isn't is a MIX tape? Hm.

My first date with Jeff was to the Baylor/A&M basketball game at G. Rollie White Coliseum, January 28, 1987. He took me to dinner first, where I talked way too much. (He's thinking now how little things change.) The first song on my basketball date mix tape would have been... "We Will Rock You!"



We lost that game by one point.

It was probably my Baylor-yellow sweater that did us in.

As for romantic songs at the time, I would go with "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin.