Manti Te’o Joins Notre Dame’s Long Tradition of Hooey

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Whatever else Manti Te’o manages toaccomplish in his interview with Katie Couric, the humiliatedNotre Dame linebacker will at least be proving Karl Marx right:All historical events really do occur twice, first as tragedy,then as farce.

Last year, we watched a mythic college football program --Joe Paterno’s Penn State -- unravel in a horrific child-sex-abuse scandal. Now we’re watching another unravel in a screwballcomedy that could have been scripted by Mel Brooks.