Estrich was the First Woman to Head a National Presidential Campaign

Susan Estrich is currently the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California and a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today. She writes the "Portia" column for American Lawyer Media and is a contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times. She was appointed by the president to serve on the National Holocaust Council and by the mayor of the City of Los Angeles to serve on that city's Ethics Commission.

A woman of firsts, she was the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review and the first woman to head a national presidential campaign (Dukakis). Estrich is committed to paving the way for women to assume positions of leadership.

Brown: Mass. election not referendum on Obama

WASHINGTON – Sen.-elect Scott Brown, the Republican who upset Democrats in the special Senate election in Massachusetts, says he doesn't think it was a referendum on President Barack Obama.

Brown also said in a nationally broadcast interview Wednesday that he also doesn't think his victory over Attorney General Martha Coakley "was anything that she did." Brown said, instead, he was able to tap into growing aggravation among voters, including independents, over partisan gridlock in Washington.

Susan Estrich Bibliography

Susan Estrich is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News.

Estrich was born in Lynn, Massachusetts but she grew up in Marblehead. In 1977 she received her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Bears DE Gaines Adams dies in South Carolina

Yahoo! Sports has learned from a source close to the Clemson football program that Chicago Bears defensive end and Clemson alum Gaines Adams(notes) died Sunday morning after being taken to Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, S.C. Scout.com's Roy Philpott, who broke the news, indicated that county coroner James T. Coursey released the information. Early reports say that Adams died of cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart, and a preliminary autopsy has confirmed this.

After amassing 28 career sacks at Clemson, Adams was selected fourth overall in the 2007 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Cutcliffe possibly to Tennessee

Jilted by one coach and rejected by two others, Tennessee has likely found a new football coach in Duke's David Cutcliffe.

Multiple media outlets, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, cited unnamed sources in reporting that Cutcliffe will be named the Volunteers' new coach, barring what the Knoxville newspaper called in an online report Thursday night "a last-second snag in negotiations."

After only one turbulent season, Volunteers coach Lane Kiffin jumped from Tennessee to Southern California on Tuesday, prompting a search that appears to have lead to Cutcliffe, a long-time Tennessee assistant who has breathed life into Duke's dormant football program the last two seasons.