Manti Te'o lied about a girl's death just to advance his chances of getting a Heissman Trophy, but Notre Dame, where he played football, has kept silent on the mess just like they have kept silent when a Notre Dame football player raped a St. Mary's college freshmen who later committed suicide.
Read the story here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/18/169712092/more-tears-for-notre-dames-fake-tragedy-than-real-girls-death