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...outspoken coach who led the University of Southern California to four national titles in 16 seasons and established it as a football titan; in Tampa, Fla. During McKay's 1960-75 tenure, U.S.C. picked up the nickname Tailback U. and churned out Heisman Trophy winners Mike Garrett and O.J. Simpson. In 1975 McKay left the college ranks to take the helm of a new NFL expansion team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In their first two seasons, the Bucs lost a record 26 straight games. Asked what he thought of his team's execution, McKay said, "I think...
...Connor's performance remade that most stable of archetypes, the TV Dad. He prefigured Homer Simpson and Al Bundy; he took Ralph Kramden out of the realm of buffoonery and carried him to his logical extreme; he took the omniscient, benevolent TV dad of the '50s and exploded that figure as irrevocably as a gunpowder-stuffed tobacco pipe. Sure, this was a slap in the face of conservatives, who chafed at the show's Norman Lear liberalism. But the O'Connor's genius was that he played the part well enough to discomfit ideologues on the left too. Archie Bunker...
...such a role she has served as a contributor to CNN's coverage of the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the criminal and civil trial of O.J. Simpson, the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton and, most recently, the court battles born out of the contested results of the 2000 presidential election in Florida, the topic she says she most enjoyed covering in her years...
...talking heads' coming out of the O.J. Simpson trial, she is the one who stands head and shoulders above the rest," Tribe says...
...general public does in fact have a basic legal education according to Van Susteren--a knowledge born out of the O.J. Simpson trial...