The company that produces deer-antler spray that contains a banned substance has sold its goods to Ray Lewis and member of the 2012 Alabama football team.

Christopher Key, the SWATS co-owner, told ESPN's Joe Schad on Wednesday he personally witnessed about five Alabama players spray what he sold them into their mouths.

"I showed them how to use it," Key said.

Key said about 20 players purchased the spray at a hotel room in New Orleans leading into the BCS national championship game against LSU. 

Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin was one of the most highly coveted coaches this offseason.

At least NFL three teams inquired about Sumlin, according to sources.

Sumlin staved off interest from the NFL teams to continue coaching Heisman winner Johnny Manziel.

A friend close to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo says he admitted to perpetuating a girlfriend hoax against Manti Te'o.

She says Tuiasosopo gave her the tearful confession and account of how he played what he said was at first a game on the unsuspecting Te'o. 

"He (Ronaiah) told me that Manti was not involved at all, he was a victim," said the unidentified woman. "The girlfriend was a lie, the accident was a lie, the leukemia was a lie. He was crying, he was literally crying, he's like 'I know, I know what I have to do.'

"It's not only Manti, but he was telling me that it's a lot of other people they had done this to."

The woman whose photos were portrayed as Lennay Kekua was identified by Inside Edition as Diane O'Meara. Her lawyer told the program that her client is also a victim and that her photos were stolen and used to create the illusion of Te'o's girlfriend.

Pep Hamilton is the leading the candidate to become the next offensive coordinator of the Indianapolis Colts.

Bruce Arians left the Colts this week to become head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.

Hamilton is Stanford's "Andrew Luck Director of Offense."

A former Notre Dame teammate of Manti Te'o said that players knew the woman wasn't really his girlfriend even though Te'o played that up as his tragic story was being told.

After Deadspin.com broke the hoax story, however, multiple media reports have said players thought that Te'o had only met Lennay Kekua once and that it wasn't really accurate to call her his girlfriend.

Te'o began to "play along" with the story, according to the teammate.

Te'o craved attention and would sometimes point himself out to friends while on television, according to the teammate.

Te'o issued a statement Wednesday afternoon:

"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.

"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating."

The father of Te'o, Brian Te'o, reportedly exaggerated and fictionalized the relationship in the media.

"They started out as just friends," Brian Te'eo said in October. "Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there. But within the last year, they became a couple.

"And we came to the realization that she could be our daughter-in-law. Sadly, it won't happen now."

Manti Te'o began receiving phone calls in early December from a number associated with Lennay Kekua.

Te'o became convinced he was the victim of a hoax by the time he went home for the holiday break. 

When Te'o returned to the Notre Dame campus on Dec. 27, he admitted never meeting Kekua in person. Te'o had previously said he first met Kekua on the Stanford campus.

Te'o's father, Brian, also was quoted several times in the media about his son meeting Lennay.

"That's pretty much Brian Te'o," a source said. "He's a great guy, but he loves to add color."

Brian Te'o couldn't be reached for comment.

Chip Kelly has targeted Todd Grantham to become defensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Grantham is defensive coordinator at the University of Georgia.

Grantham has NFL experience with previous stints as an assistant with Dallas, Cleveland, Houston and Indianapolis.

The girlfriend of Manti Te'o, Lennay Kekua, was said to have died from leukemia in September. The story became part of his Heisman narrative and Notre Dame's undefeated regular season. 

But the photographs purported to be Kekua are from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman not named Lennay Kekua.

Kekua was said to be a Stanford student that met Te'o in November of 2009.

The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo allegedly created the online persona of Lennay Kekua.

A friend of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo told us he was "80 percent sure" that Manti Te'o was "in on it," and that the two perpetrated Lennay Kekua's death with publicity in mind. 

Te'o's Twitter profile carries a quotation from Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, the great adventure novel about a man in disguise.

Update: Notre Dame has released a statement claiming that Te'o was the victim of a hoax. Officials from the school were approached by Te'o and his family on Dec. 26.

Chip Kelly has agreed to become the next head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, according to sources.

Kelly had previously said that he would remain at Oregon following several interviews with NFL teams.

Kelly was also a candidate with the Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills this offseason, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a year ago.

Kelly will reportedly leave Oregon with a 46-7 record and a trip to a BCS Bowl game in every season. The Ducks finished No. 2 in the rankings following the 2012 season.

The University of Nevada is using Colin Kaepernick in its promotional materials for their 2013 football season.

Fans who purchase or renew two or more season tickets before Feb. 1 will be entered to win four pregame field passes and game tickets to the 49ers’ home opener next season.