美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-01-21

 A really bizarre, unbelievable story is unfolding right now tonight, a story that garnered¹ a lot of sympathy and admiration² for a Notre Dame³ linebacker Manti Te'o all season long. It's apparently⁴ been exposed as a hoax⁵ by the website Deadspin.com. Now, Te'o, almost won the Heisman Trophy⁶ this season. What he was supposedly dealing⁷ with off the field got a huge amount of attention. The way that story went, on September 11th, in the span of just six hours, Te'o got word that both his grandmother and his girlfriend had died. But Te'o went out and led his team to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, he made 12 tackles on that day.

His strength in the face of such loss took on a life of its own. Well, ten days later, Te'o skipped to his girlfriend's funeral because she said she made him promise not to miss a game. Notre Dame crushed Michigan that day and the team's coach Brian Kelly, gave Te'o the game ball in the memory of his girlfriend. That's the moment right there captured by NBC sports.

But now Deadspin has learned that Lennay Kekua, Te'o supposed girlfriend never existed. That's right, there was no woman by that name. Te'o contends he was the victim of a hoax. In a statement he said, quote, "This is incredibly embrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with the woman I met online. I grew to care deeply about her, to realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was and is painful and humiliating."

Notre Dame also released a statement saying that on December 26, they were informed by Manti Te'o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious⁸ name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself as Manti and conspired⁹ with others to lead him to believe she had tragically¹⁰ died of leukemia.

Now a lot of people are scratching their hands out now wondering how all of this could possible add up. Timothy Burke joins me now. He broke the story tonight on Deadspin.com. And David Haugh, the sports columnist¹¹ with the Chicago Tribune.

Timothy, so I don't quite understand that Te'o released his statement today in reaction to your investigation¹² and said he was duped by someone online from your reporting on this and you broke this story, does that add up?

"Well, you know, I think that my colleague Jack¹³ Dickey who wrote the story with me and I really sort of went out to not focus on anybody really sort of being the victim or the perpetrators here, Te'o's story that he is completely innocent in this doesn't really shake through with us for a few reasons. First we had a lot of stories about how they met, that you know she was a student at Stanford and they met after the 2009 football game, you know that it didn't happen."

"Right, it was supposed to be a face to face meeting."

"Where did they come, where did that story came from, you know, so there is some responsibilty there for that, when Te'o said, I know I'll see my girlfriend again someday, we know now that they never saw each other in the place. So what's he referring to when he says again someday."

ESPN did an interview with Te'o after what he said with the death of his girlfriend. I just want to play part of that.

1 garnered   

v.收集并（通常）贮藏（某物），取得，获得( garner的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Mr. Smith gradually garnered a national reputation as a financial expert. 史密斯先生逐渐赢得全国金融专家的声誉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He has garnered extensive support for his proposals. 他的提议得到了广泛的支持。 来自辞典例句

2 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

3 dame   

n.女士

参考例句：

• The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
• If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。

4 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

5 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

6 trophy   

n.优胜旗，奖品，奖杯，战胜品，纪念品

参考例句：

• The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
• He hung the lion's head as a trophy.他把那狮子头挂起来作为狩猎纪念品。

7 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

8 fictitious   

adj.虚构的，假设的；空头的

参考例句：

• She invented a fictitious boyfriend to put him off.她虚构出一个男朋友来拒绝他。
• The story my mother told me when I was young is fictitious.小时候妈妈对我讲的那个故事是虚构的。

9 conspired   

密谋( conspire的过去式和过去分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致

参考例句：

• They conspired to bring about the meeting of the two people. 他们共同促成了两人的会面。
• Bad weather and car trouble conspired to ruin our vacation. 恶劣的气候连同汽车故障断送了我们的假日。

10 tragically   

adv. 悲剧地，悲惨地

参考例句：

• Their daughter was tragically killed in a road accident. 他们的女儿不幸死于车祸。
• Her father died tragically in a car crash. 她父亲在一场车祸中惨死。

11 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

12 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

13 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。