Article posted: 1/22/2013 5:36 AM

Real sports world can be stranger than fiction

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New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez and his wife Cynthia talked with Katie Couric 2007 after the release of the Mitchell Report, which accusing scores of Major League Baseball players of using steroids. Now the family of All-American linebacker Manti Te'o has agreed to talk with Couric this week about the hoax involving a fake girlfriend linked to Te'o.

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After a week of confessions, lies and hoax talk about fake girlfriends, Mike North was happy there were some real sports to talk about after the AFC and NFC championship games on Sunday. He also discusses high school basketball and rivalry games that turn out great, unlike what happened with Simeon and Morgan Park last week.