Baffoe: Notre Dame Needs To Stop 'Te'oing' Its Smart Fanbase
Notre Dame tells me it's about goodness and intelligence. But time and time again when I turn to them for both, it's like neither ever existed there in the first place.
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Notre Dame tells me it's about goodness and intelligence. But time and time again when I turn to them for both, it's like neither ever existed there in the first place.
According to a report from ESPN's Shelley Smith, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo admitted to a friend in December that he was, in fact, the man posing online as Manti Te'o's girlfriend.
The Florense Freedom, an independent minor league baseball team in Kentucky, are using Manti Te'o's fake dead girlfriend to garner some national publicity.
Manti Te'o better prepare for a lot more of this...
Before we start, let's make one thing crystal clear: Lennay Kekua, the "girlfriend" of Manti Teo, who allegedly died of Leukemia in September, never existed.
It can happen. What Manti Te'o is saying happened to him can, and does, happen.
My guess is at the bottom of this is a college student who was embarrassed after he found out his online relationship wasn't real.
In the wake of Deadspin's groundbreaking story, which revealed the dead girlfriend of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o never actually existed, the linebacker released the following statement.
In response to Deadspin's stunning story that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend never existed, the university released a statement indicating that Te'o was a victim of a hoax.
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Wood finishes his collegiate career with 2,447 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns.
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Notre Dame players Manti Te'o, Everett Golson and Tyler Eifert address reporters after the Irish lost 42-14 in the BCS National Championship Game Monday night at Sun Life Stadium.
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It didn't take long to understand that Alabama was at a completely different level than Notre Dame's previous 12 opponents.
Alabama rolled to its second consecutive BCS championship, and third in four seasons, beating No. 1 Notre Dame 42-14 in a BCS championship game that was no classic after all.
Lewandowski, who made the move from FC Barcelona in a two-year deal with Chicago, equalized in the 20th minute off a screamer from outside the box that tied the game at 1.
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Gov. JB Pritzker signed sweeping regulations Friday aimed at social media companies and cracking down on "addictive algorithms" that keep kids glued to their screens.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
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Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
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A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
If weather forces an evacuation, shelter sites are located at Grant Park North, Grant Park South, and Millennium Lakeside Garages, accessible through the vehicle entrance on Michigan Avenue.
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Academy Award-winning Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash.
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A video of the meeting posted on social media shows the two Chicago natives sitting across from each other at the Pope's desk. The two chatted for about 40 minutes.
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It was initially sent from a woman in Tampa, who wanted to gift the winnings to a relative in South Florida.
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The festival was delayed until 3 p.m. due to "current and overnight heavy rains," according to the Lollapalooza website.
A boy was found safe after a car was stolen on Chicago's West Side.
Several people were killed in a shooting Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, local authorities said.
It was part of ICNA Relief Chicago's annual giveaway.
The body of a man who went missing along Des Plaines River in Libertyville, Illinois, has been recovered.
A clean energy initiative on the South Side of Chicago is increasing access to solar energy and electric vehicle charging stations, and community members say it's making a difference.
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Chicago's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees roughly 200 traffic aides, says two were seriously injured by drivers this summer — leaving many uneasy on the job as Lollapalooza brings heavy traffic downtown.
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Two Mundelein-area men are facing charges connected to the murder of a man who disappeared last November.
