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After 2nd losing season, Bucs fire Lovie Smith in surprise move

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For the third time in five years, the Tampa Bay Bucs have decided the team needs a new head coach. In a surprise move, the Bucs fired head coach Lovie Smith late Wednesday night. Smith had tripled his wins in 2015, and his offense had risen to fifth in yardage. Still, the Bucs were 6-10 and lost their final four games. “This decision was difficult on a variety of levels,” Joel Glazer said in a prepared statement. “I am disappointed that…

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Continuing coverage: USF Head Coach Jim Leavitt fired

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  From FanHouse: University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt’s tenure with the program is over. The only coach the Bulls have had in the program’s 13-year history leaves after an investigation that was initiated after a FanHouse report that stated Leavitt grabbed sophomore Joel Miller by the throat and hit the walk-on twice in the face Nov. 21 at halftime of the Louisville game. Leavitt was told he was not returning Friday morning in a meeting with USF…

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Was ‘G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra’ director fired?!?

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Last week was full of questions as if the Director of the new Paramount’s “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra”, Stephen Sommers had been fired from the project? Running with a rumor that originally appeared on a message board on producer Don Murphy’s site. It was reported that the director had been banned from the editing room and that Stuart Baird was hired to re-edit the pic after a string of poor test screenings. None of that is true, however. Sommers…

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Director Stephen Sommers Fired From ‘G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra’ — Hallelujah

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The director behind big screen adaptation, ‘G.I. Joe’, has been relieved of his duty after a test screening for the film gave the lowest score ever from an audience in the history of Paramount. Words on the street are, director Stephen Sommers has been fired from “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.” Posting a message on Don Murphy’s message boards and chronicling what really happened before, during and after the production of the movie, forum poster Endtimes claimed that the filmmaker…

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I was fired today?

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