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The strong close to the season wasn’t enough to save Herman’s job, however. After four years, Texas announced it’s parting ways with its head coach. The university is expected to hire Steve Sarkisian, currently the offensive coordinator at Alabama, to replace him. The Crimson Tide just won its semifinal game in the College Football Playoff and is set to face Ohio State for the national championship. Per Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, Herman has a hefty buyout of $15 million....

There is lots of fun information in the company’s report, but my favorite is definitely “Cash On Hand.” Even after spending $17 billion in stock buybacks and dividend payments, Apple still managed to sock away $13.5 billion worth of cash from operations. This puts their total cash and short term investments at $206.4 billion. If Apple was a country, it would have more cash reserves than all of the following nations: Malaysia, Turkey, Poland, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Sweden and many more....

At the peak of his career, he earned as much as $3,000 per filming day and appeared in over 2,400 adult films during the ’70s and ’80s. He was the inspiration for Mark Wahlberg’s Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 classic, “Boogie Nights.” He was portrayed by Val Kilmer in the brutal and riveting 2003 film “Wonderland.” But the real story of John Holmes is far darker—and far less glamorous—than anything Hollywood ever put on screen....

Later hit singles included “Could’ve Been,” “All This Time,” and “I Saw Him Standing There.” Beyond music, Tiffany has appeared on numerous reality television series and has acted in movies such as “Necrosis” and “Mega Piranha.” Early Life and Career Beginnings Tiffany Darwish was born on October 2, 1971, in Norwalk, California. She is the daughter of Janie Wilson and James Darwish. She is of Irish and Native American descent on her mother’s side and of Lebanese ancestry on her father’s....

Jeff Bezos would be on the hook for $2 billion a year, his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott would owe $600,000 a year. Gates would be required to pay $1.3 billion a year. Ballmer would owe $870,000 a year. Of course, none of those four people have day-to-day roles in that they don’t need to go into an office so they could feasibly just move to another state to avoid the tax....

It has been a rough year for Pearson so far. He had pneumonia over the Christmas holiday, which landed him in the hospital. He’s been on medical leave for two months. On his first day back in the office, the SEC announced that they were launching a formal investigation into his company. A week before that, Valeant had to admit that it would be adjusting its reporting of the company’s fourth quarter earnings, due to a reporting error of $58 million....

Her Prime Minister husband was never shy about mentioning his wife Veronica in public, and he had alluded at least once to a supposed affair between his wife and opposition politician Massimo Cacciari. In 2007, Veronica began a string of public accusations toward her then-husband and in April 2009 she once again published an open letter, criticizing her husband for consorting with young ladies and defining his chosen candidates for the European Parliament as “shameless rubbish”....

Auburn knows it’s got a good thing going, and they want to keep it rolling. The university offered head coach Bruce Pearl an eight-year contract that will run through 2030. Pearl will be 70 by the time the contract ends, so it very well could be his last deal. Auburn’s athletic director Allen Greene shared the details of the contract, and it’s a pretty sweet deal for Pearl. He’ll get a total of $50....

He was discharged from the Air Force, and returned to Virginia to begin rehabilitation. He was subsequently approached by a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master and coach, and invited to train for MMA. He began fighting on the mixed martial arts circuit in 2002, and has gone on to win twelve of his twenty major fights, seven of them by knockout. He is also a part owner and trainer at City Boxing....

He made his television debut in 1989 on TV 101, followed by Match Point, An American Summer, Return to the Blue Lagoon and Charmed, which aired from 1998 to 2006. His most recent appearances were on Mad Men and The Closer as well as a voice acting role for the video game L.A. Noire.

She launched her own lip gloss, “Kiss by Casey”, in 2007. She also started a successful chain of cupcake shops, called Casey’s Cupcakes. She currently has shops in five locations in southern California. She has also runs her own charity organization called, the C.A.S.E.Y. Foundation (Children’s Alliance for the Success and Education of Youth in Need) that is focused on improving self-esteem and promoting education for children and teens.

Chingy emerged on the hip-hop scene in the early 2000s as a standout artist from St. Louis, Missouri. His breakthrough came after signing with Ludacris’s Disturbing tha Peace label, leading to his debut single “Right Thurr” in 2003, which became a massive hit and established his signature sound with its catchy hooks and distinctive pronunciation. His debut album “Jackpot” (2003) was a commercial success, selling over two million copies and producing additional hits including “Holidae In” featuring Ludacris and Snoop Dogg, and “One Call Away” featuring J-Weav....

Under his leadership, Rompetrol grew to become a multi-billion dollar business, which he then sold to KazMunaiGaz, Kazakhstan’s primary energy company. He then used his wealth to invest in a wide range of initiatives, including real estate development, alternative energy, various media ventures, and supermarkets. His real estate company, Dinu Patriciu Global Services, oversees 117 real estate ventures in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Romania. In addition to his work as a businessman, he was also a member of the Romanian Parliament from 1990-1996, and again from 2000-2003....

Dottie West was born in Smithville, Tennessee in October 1932 and passed away in September 1991. She released 33 studio albums starting with her debut Here Comes My Baby in 1965 which reached #12 on the US Country chart. Her album Suffer Time in 1966 reached #3 on the US Country chart. West collaborated with Kenny Rogers on the album Every Time Two Fools Collide which reached #1 on the US Country chart....

In 2004, she was cast in the role that would make her a household name, as Lois Lane, on “Smallville”. She would remain with the show until it ended its run seven seasons later. She is currently co-starring on the new NBC show, “Saving Hope” as Dr. Alex Reid.

Early Life Gervonta Davis was born on November 7, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland. As a teenager, he went to Digital Harbor High School for a while before dropping out to pursue his career. Amateur Career At the age of five, Davis began training at Upton Boxing Center under Calvin Ford. He went on to have a highly successful career as an amateur boxer, winning three consecutive National Silver Gloves Championships from 2006 to 2008 and later the National Golden Gloves Championship in 2012....

Gina Schock is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the powerhouse drummer of the groundbreaking all-female rock band The Go-Go’s. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Schock brought her distinctive hard-hitting drum style to Los Angeles in 1979, helping to transform The Go-Go’s from punk scene upstarts to chart-topping hitmakers. Her solid backbeat and energetic performance style became a defining element of the band’s sound on iconic albums like “Beauty and the Beat” (1981), which made history as the first album by an all-female band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to reach #1 on the Billboard charts....

Early Life and Career Beginnings Ginger Baker was born Peter Edward Baker on August 19, 1939, in Lewisham, South London, England. His mother, Ruby, worked in a tobacco shop, while his father, Frederick, was a bricklayer. Baker earned the nickname Ginger early on due to his flaming red hair. He went to Pope Street School, where he played football, and then he attended Shooter’s Hill Grammar School in Greenwich. Baker started playing the drums at the age of 15....

Gloria Henry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in April 1923. She started out working on radio shows and commercials. She signed a film contract with Columbia Pictures in 1947. Gloria would go on to appear in a number of “B” movies in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Henry starred as Michelle Malone on the television series The Files of Jeffrey Jones in 1952. She appeared in episodes of TV series including The Abbott and Costello Show, Perry Mason, Father Knows Best, The Life of Riley, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Doogie Howser, M....

The hack came as Bitcoin has skyrocketed in value over the last several weeks, surpassing $17,000 per bitcoin for the first time. That meant the value of the hacked bitcoins came to about $70 million – or, to put it in Bitcoin terms, the hackers stole around 4,700 bitcoins from NiceHash’s servers. It looks like the unnamed hackers were able to break into the NiceHash server using a deceptively simple means: The login credentials of a NiceHash engineer....