Manti Te'o hoax never should have gotten this far  It was a
story everyone wanted to believe, including Notre Dame and the
media. But no one dug deep enough to uncover the lie.  This
country's most inspirational sportsman is exposed as a cheat.
Two of the greatest players in baseball history are denied entry
into the Hall of Fame because they are cheats. The NFL spends
the first three weeks of the season using fake referees. A
college football powerhouse admits to switching uniform numbers
and deflating footballs.  Into a sports world filled with deceit
stepped Manti Te'o with a story too good to be true, too
necessary to be questioned.  A senior Notre Dame linebacker
leads America's most traditional football program to its first
unbeaten season in 24 years while playing for the memory of a
dead girlfriend. It was a modern-day win for the Gipper. It was
tear-stained pages torn from a "Rudy" script.  Te'o preached it.
Notre Dame nurtured it. The mainstream media bought it. A
stadium full of emotional fans wear