The world of tennis is this week celebrating the 50th anniversary of Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in the historic "Battle of the Sexes". The exhibition match between King, who was 29 and ...

the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became ...

Billie Jean ... she humbled Bobby Riggs. Let's get that match out of the way. Riggs, a 1939 Wimbledon champion turned hustler, had already massacred Court on Mother's Day 1973. So King, who ...

Billie Jean King made ... her high-school-gym debut, King was playing before a worldwide audience in the Astrodome, where she changed history again by beating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the ...

Former tennis champion and gender equality advocate Billie Jean King was named grand ... of the Sexes” tennis match against ...

Billie Jean King is widely known for taking down Bobby Riggs in the historic and heavily-hyped tennis match in 1973, which was coined the "Battle of the Sexes." By defeating the Grand Slam ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — A South Florida coach and grandson of a tennis legend is facing serious charges after being accused of producing child pornography. Daniel James Riggs, 31, had his first ...

In her episode of Desert Island Discs, tennis great Billie Jean King ... depicted King’s struggle to be taken seriously as a woman in tennis, and her 1973 match against Bobby Riggs, a male ...

Legendary tennis great and activist Billie Jean King made a stop in Connecticut ... for winning the Battle of the Sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs in September 1973. "It changed the hearts ...

Along came Billie Jean ... Bobby Riggs. Let's get that match out of the way. Riggs, a 1939 Wimbledon champion turned hustler, had already massacred Court on Mother's Day 1973. So King, who ...