AP Finally Issues Correction About Football Player's Imaginary Dead Girlfriend

Guess they really wanted to be sure

Whoever said print media wasn't nimble? It's been three weeks and two days since we published our initial story, "Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax." The Te'o story has made its rounds through the national media between then and today; one might even have read about it in a publication that isn't Deadspin.

Hell, the Associated Press reported on the fraud. Only today, though, did the service get around to posting a correction on its wires.