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Let's hold off on passing judgment of Manti Te'o

Word has just broke that the story concerning Notre Dame Heisman-trophy finalist Manti Te'o's girlfriend's death was a hoax. As reported by Deadspin , there was no documentation of one Lennay Kekua dying or ever even existing. The two supposedly met via Twitter and engaged in an online relationship for about a year. What appears to have happened is one of two things - either a person (or group of people) played a hoax on Te'o for whatever sick reason, or Te'o was part of the hoax, in an attempt to garner favorable publicity. I'm now seeing this story pop up just about everywhere. I've seen it mentioned 3+ times on Facebook already just amongst my group of friends. When searching "Manti Te'o" and "hoax" on Google, 116,000 results now show. It seems as if a majority of people believe Te'o knew about the hoax and was in on it. The reasoning? "He had to have known about it. How could anyone be so naive?" I think we shoul...