Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o tells Katie Couric he did initially lie about fake girlfriend - VIDEO

Manti has nothing to explain. It's his business not anyone elses. In particular, it is none of Kathy Hayes gossip column business. Kathy Hayes is the house gossip columnist for Irish Central.

His interview calls into question ND's famously high percent of athletes who graduate. He sounded clueless as to what was going on, and I guess it's good that he is on the defensive team, since he would never catch hold of the complex offensive line schemes.

Who really cares about this silly incident? Suspect it is all about power, money, greed and a hoped for future in sports. Were I a coach, stay the hell away for this dude. Lots of other choices.

As they would say in Irish... deargamadán.

WHY did he feel the NEED to LIE, about the girlfriend?....and if he's GAY, then WHY lie about having a girlfriend? alisa

The ability to overcome adversity is the hallmark of a champion. The fact that the girl and her tragic death were faked is immaterial to the vastly more important fact that Manti overcame the emotional trauma of her loss, and played like a champion, leading the Fighting Irish to an undefeated regular season. To continue to refer to the emotions he lived through even after the hoax was revealed to him was a selling point for his personal,mega-million dollar sports franchise. "All warfare is based upon deception,--Sun Tsu No one should know what a line backer is going to do, or where he's coming from. Manti is the avatar of Ku, the Hawaian God of War. I hope duh Bears get him!

Can't figure the interest in this, the dumbest and most uninteresting story I ever heard!!

I haven't been able to figure out this one. Is there is a possibility that the young man is homosexual? I am just trying to understand what the crunch is going on here.

it takes a lot to laugh; it takes a trin to cry...