Billie Jean King
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 20: Billie Jean King attends the 'Bully' screening at The Paley Center for Media on March 20, 2012 in New York City.
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Awarded the highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to Billie Jean King and Harvey Milk.
It was an idea similar to the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973. Billie Jean King beat Riggs in the exhibition that was billed as the Battle of the Sexes. I used that as an example. I was just trying to create a little interest.More quotes »
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A Day Like Few Others: Women Soar in Paris
Oudin, Irina Falconi and Sands. One was from Ohio, Lauren Davis, and three are training with the USTA at the Billie Jean King Tennis National Tennis Center in New York: Oudin, Christina McHale and Varvara Lepchenko. The Uzbekistan native said that America from Inside Tennis Read more »
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Billie Jean King keeps her eye on the future of tennis in the U.S.
is 68 going on 40. Her name is Billie Jean King, and she still hints that a cure to all that ails her beloved sport of tennis can be found in how she did it. "Leave your guts on the court," she says, and she means in life, as well as tennis. She comes to town from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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"You have to see it to be it" - Billie Jean King on Title IX
November we honored tennis legend and Founder of the Women's Sports Foundation Billie Jean King with the Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership. In advance of our May 31 Sports & Society Program's symposium on Title IX and Beyond: How to Get the Rest from Anne Mosle Read more »
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Bad knee sidelines Monfils for French Open
Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain on day 4 in Louis Armstrong Stadium at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships Stadium at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City on September 1, 2011. UPI/John Angelillo License photo PARIS, May 24 (UPI) -- French from United Press International Read more »
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Lee's career covered six decades
Center honored Lee with the WIC Living Legacy Award, in which she joined the company of recipients such as tennis star Billie Jean King and former U.S. first lady Betty Ford. “Peggy Lee was an ideal recipient for our Living Legacy Award because of her tremendous from Jamestown Sun Read more »
