When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago this month, her win propelled women’s tennis to new heights — and helped ...

Tennis legend Billie Jean King is set to receive a monumental honor next week as the first female athlete to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for sports entertainment. This recognition ...

Billie Jean King crushed Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in 1973's "Battle of the Sexes." Yet of all her victories, the one that is remembered most is her beating a 55-year-old man.

Billie Jean King ... 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 Sexes.

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 ...

Bobby Riggs had been a great champion in the 1930s ... initially issuing a challenge to the player he thought was the world’s best, Billie Jean King. Well aware that there was little upside ...

Billie Jean ... The bill to honor King had already passed unanimously in the Senate. The honor comes just after the 50th anniversary of King’s victory over Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of ...

Tennis icon Billie Jean King will be honored next week as the first female athlete with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova ...