"We have two witnesses and evidence against him, " he said, drawing X's, O's and spiral doodles on a blank sheet of paper as he listened.
With real playbooks featured in Madden and constant input by John Madden himself, the 'x's and o's' of football are being taught to the next generation of gridiron greats.
This human tendency toward believing is what allows not-so-true tales like Armstrong's and Te'o's to flourish.
The Angola tournament has been eagerly anticipated as an early chance to assess the form of African powerhouses such as Drogba and Toure's Ivory Coast, Essien's Ghana and Eto'o's Cameroon ahead of the World Cup.
The Angolan Africa Cup of Nations is arguably the continent's most important -- with South Africa hosting Africa's first World Cup finals in the same year -- it will give the world an idea of just how strong teams like Drogba's Ivory Coast, Essien's Ghana and Eto'o's Cameroon will be in football's showpiece event in June.
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Te'o's parents, Brian and Ottilia Te'o, were on hand for the interview.
Some of the hard consonants will be replaced by softer ones (k's by g's, for example), while some o's will give way to eo and u's to eu.
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Kraft made two stops, first to deny substitute Houssine Kharja and then to parry Thiago Motta's point-blank header, before Eto'o's goalbound effort was deflected just wide.
O'Gara's 16th-minute penalty nudged Munster ahead again and O'Driscoll's line-out steal then helped set up an attack which yielded another three points for his fly-half.
Ireland were relying heavily on O'Gara's up-and-unders to advance downfield, although O'Sullivan's men did look considerably more fired up than for their matches against Namibia and Georgia.
For example, former O.tel.o chief executive Ulf Bohle decided to market O.tel.o's wireline telephone service exclusively to consumers willing to commit to O.tel.o as their exclusive service provider.
Scouts have questioned Te'o's lateral agility, tight hips and explosiveness, but Te'o was happy with how he did.
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She's genuinely baffled by this golden child, and touched by the motherly instincts that O's tenderness provokes.
"I don't think about Slim every day, " says O'Brien, who claims he has taken 20% of the market in El Salvador in one year. (Slim, in turn, has bought a cell phone company in Jamaica, setting up a battle on O'Brien's home turf.) O'Brien is also eyeing the U.S., where only 80% of the population has a cell phone.
Meanwhile, O.tel.o's cable TV business (second, after Deutsche Telekom's CATV operation) is cash-flow positive.
Part Manti Te'o's inspirational story turned out to be the result of an elaborate hoax.
The players on my TV were suddenly harder to see than Manti Te'o's girlfriend.
Te'o's parents were summoned and they were tearful and clearly agonized by the whole episode.
In the second voicemail, the person was apparently upset by someone else answering Te'o's phone.
Eto'o's fourth African crown takes him past other three-time winners Abedi Pele and George Weah.
After a two-and-a-half hour interview, veteran sports reporter Schaap said Te'o's story sounded convincing.
Te'o's father was quoted in the article saying they exchanged phone numbers and a love affair began.
O.s and star traders routinely demand vastly higher sums to keep up with their counterparts at hedge funds.
Eto'o's club, Barcelona, claims they had reached agreement for the player to stay in Spain for another week.
O.s had identified an archeological site among the red cliffs under this hilltop.
The O's drew over 3 million people in both seasons, second-best in baseball.
Eto'o's compatriot Geremi has two Champions Leagues from his time with Real Madrid.
Te'o's wrenching story fit into this playbook perfectly. (Too perfectly which should have been a tipoff.) Of course it worked.
Many Internet denizens took the opportunity to bash Te'o's performance on the field.
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