After the following introduction, Cyd Zeigler of OutSports reached exactly the conclusion you might have, had you framed it as carefully as Zeigler did...
The Manti Te’o hoax story just got, well, gayer. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man clearly involved with the “Lennay Kekua” hoax, now claims it was he whom Te’o spoke with on the phone for over 500 hours (that’s the equivalent of 21 days). Te’o has maintained that he thought it was Kekua, a woman, on the other end of the line.
From ESPN, which obtained the phone records of Te’o:
The records show that in that four-month span — when Te’o has said he believed Kekua to be in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an accident and being treated for cancer — Te’o made and received more than 1,000 calls totaling more than 500 hours in length from the same number in the 661 area code. The 661 area code covers Lancaster, Calif., which is part of Los Angeles County. The source told Schaap that Te’o believed the 661 phone number in question was Kekua’s.
Of these calls, 110 were more than 60 minutes in length, including several that were several hundred minutes long. In an ESPN interview Friday, and in interviews with both ESPN and Sports Illustrated last fall, Te’o said he was on the phone “every single night” with a person he believed to be Kekua, often for long stretches late at night.
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