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I think you're right: Mr. Sports Journo ‏@BIGSPORTSWRITER A lot of these tweets/realizations were mentioned in the original @Deadspin story by @bubbaprog and @jackdickey. Retweeted by Justin Megahan

Check out this guy's twitter account--- he includes tweets from early December of some twitter users alleging the Lennay Keuka thing was a hoax. Make of it what you will: https://twitter.com/justinrmegahan

Yes, anyone can retweet tweets from someone else's account, and it also includes the original tweeter's avatar, too.

Yeah, my initial thought regarding the dearth of tweets was that they had been deleted. I realized the mistake pretty quickly. A reporter had retweeted it, which added to the confusion. Anyone can retweet them as long as his account is public. The original timestamp will remain.

FWIW: Tyler Burns ‏@burnSTYLEr @richarddeitsch @MerKenyon Yes, I think @LennayKay was stolen after the handle was released. @LoveMSMK must've been deactivated <30 days ago Retweeted by Richard Deitsch

Retweets carry the timestamp of the original tweets next to them, so it appears confusing at to when they were posted.

That part is definitely accurate.

It's possible the twitter handle was changed back to @LennayKay. From the Deadspin article: Lennay Kekua's Twitter name was @lovalovaloveYOU from 2011 until April 2012, @LennayKay from April until September 2012, and has been @LoveMSMK ever since.

According to the Deadspin article and other outlets, this is "Lennay's" twitter account. It is reportedly being manned by "Lennay's' mother. This was tweeted 25 minutes ago: L K ‏@LennayKay It isn't fair to drag Reagan and Troy into this.. a lot of truths and myths need to be addressed here, and they will be at noon PST tomorrow EDIT: This does NOT appear to be the same twitter account.

Right. 18 pages in 6 hours.

Did Trestman refuse to interview with the Bills in 2010 or did they actually speak with him? It's entirely possible they did contact him this time out, and he wasn't interested. We barely knew who they did speak with, after the fact.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/notre-dame-stands-manti-te-o-says-perfect-012348590--ncaaf.html Swarbrick said Te'o got a call when he was in Orlando for a college football awards show, which was Dec. 6, from a number he knew to be Kekua. The voice on the other end was the one he knew as Kekua, Swarbrick said, and the person on the other end who Te'o had known to be his girlfriend, who he thought died in September, told Te'o she was not dead. "Manti was very unnerved by that, as you might imagine," Swarbrick said. That night Te’o won three awards – the Bednarik Award for top defensive player, the Walter Camp Foundation player of the year award and the Maxwell Award, given to the top player in the nation. Swarbrick said the woman tried to restart the relationship after that phone call.

Mock drafts are not "reports" of team's interest, as has been said several times. They are educated guesses made by commentators with little concrete evidence.

There's really no reason for them to comment on another team's hire. Were the Bills expected to comment when the Redskins hired Shanahan just because they met with him for 10 hours? The media simply overreacted. There's nothing to suggest college coaches fail more often or more miserably than coaches with pro experience. A few high profile college names like Spurrier, Pettrino and Saban failing is apropos of nothing in regards to Kelly.

It's right in the interview: It wasn't until the morning of Dec. 26, Swarbrick said, that Te'o contacted Notre Dame coaches about the call. Swarbrick said Te'o wanted to discuss the issue face-to-face with his parents over a holiday break before bringing it to the staff's attention, and on Dec. 27, Te'o and Swarbrick met to discuss the details of the relationship.

Absolutely, these are all fascinating questions that demand answers. It wouldn't be crazy if Te'o had evidence of this, though. The mere presence of pertinent questions coupled with the lack of answers (at the moment) doesn't mean there aren't any. Either way, Te'o has issues.

If he has answers to the questions you've outlined, it's likely he's provided them to Notre Dame in December. If Notre Dame "cleared him" without asking those questions, then it's nothing more than PR. This story is fascinating, and I kind of hope it's not the latest sordid tale of celebrity sociopathy.

In 2012, are we still debating whether or not it is possible to be hoodwinked by someone with whom we are having an online relationship? The possibility was already common knowledge in 1994, but it's incredibly prevalent now. The hot 18 year old blonde cheerleader with a tan is probably a 300 lb plumber named Jack. It's a cliche, not a shocking development.

Since when are mock drafts based on what teams tell the press??? The Bills draft picks are rarely correctly predicted. Kiper is only the most famous mock drafter, he's by no means the most accurate.

If true, it's very bizarre: http://deadspin.com/...eason-is-a-hoax Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, the stories said, played this season under a terrible burden. A Mormon linebacker who led his Catholic school's football program back to glory, Te'o was whipsawed between personal tragedies along the way. In the span of six hours in September, as Sports Illustrated told it, Te'o learned first of the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, and then of the death of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. Kekua, 22 years old, had been in a serious car accident in California, and then had been diagnosed with leukemia. SI's Pete Thamel described how Te'o would phone her in her hospital room and stay on the line with her as he slept through the night. "Her relatives told him that at her lowest points, as she fought to emerge from a coma, her breathing rate would increase at the sound of his voice," Thamel wrote. Upon receiving the news of the two deaths, Te'o went out and led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 upset of Michigan State, racking up 12 tackles. It was heartbreaking and inspirational. Te'o would appear on ESPN's College GameDay to talk about the letters Kekua had written him during her illness. He would send a heartfelt letter to the parents of a sick child, discussing his experience with disease and grief. The South Bend Tribune wrote an article describing the young couple's fairytale meeting—she, a Stanford student; he, a Notre Dame star—after a football game outside Palo Alto. Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading.

If you don't want to re-live it, the best way is probably to not respond to a comment about it. It only fans the flames.

Is that why Whitner is no longer a Bill? Because his twitter comments were posted on a message board?

This meme gets more ridiculous everytime it's posted and it's completely untrue. Speaking for myself living in Northern Virginia, I am witness to fans of several different teams viewing the Pats in the exact same light--- the legacy is tainted, deserved or not. On the other hand, the more I learn about Bellichick's methods and attention to detail the more it is cemented in my mind that he can absolutely be classified as a "genius". He has earned the distinction because he is consistently ahead of the curve. That doesn't mean the Patriots didn't act inappropriately. In 1972, Nixon beat McGovern in a landslide--- and he also cheated. Dirty tricks aside (it is politics, after all), Nixon didn't secure a landslide victory because of Watergate. He won because of a win at all costs suffocating overall strategy that exploited the weaknesses of his opponents with absolute precision. Regardless, his legacy is forever tainted. Sounds familiar, though the 21st century sports media is much more forgiving than the political media of the 1970s. Acknowledging this does not in any way justify the nonstop tire fire that has been the past 13 Bills seasons.

There haven't been a large number of high profile QB trades over the past decade, but there are a handful that can be argued as successes. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but there have been several QBs that were successful with a 2nd team following a trade over the past 20 years. This doesn't include free agents, of course (Gannon, Brees, Manning, Favre in 2009, etc) that found success with a new team. It isn't impossible to find an above average-to-very good QB via trade, regardless of experience: Brett Favre (traded from Atlanta to Green Bay in 1992) Joe Montana (San Fran to KC, 1993) Warren Moon (Houston to Minnesota, 1994) Jeff George (Indy to Atlanta, 1994) Mark Brunell (Green Bay to Jacksonville, 1995) Chris Chandler (Houston to Atlanta, 1996) Jeff George (Atlanta to Oakland, 1997) Brad Johnson (Minnesota to Washington, 1999) Aaron Brooks (Green Bay to New Orleans, 2000) Trent Green (St. Louis to KC, 2001) Drew Bledsoe (New England to Buffalo, 2002) Matt Schaub (Atlanta to Houston, 2007) Jay Cutler (Denver to Chicago, 2009) Carson Palmer (Cincinnati to Oakland, 2011)

Jay Cutler and Carson Palmer are arguable, but it's obviously a very rare occurrence.