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REPORT: Tennessee fires chancellor Beverly Davenport

Things were just a little too quiet around Knoxville, huh? The University of Tennessee has made the move to fire Chancellor Beverly Davenport, according to Jimmy Hyams of WNML.

BREAKING NEWS: Sources: UT chancellor Beverly Davenport has been fired by Dr. Joe DiPietro. She was hired Dec. 15, effective Feb. 15. She made the controversial hire of John Currie as athletic director, then fired him Dec. 1 and hired Phillip
Fulmer as AD.— Jimmy Hyams (@JimmyHyams) May 2, 2018

As Hyams points out, Davenport was responsible for the hiring of former athletics director John Currie.