United States House of Representatives members Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced ...

Today in Sports, September 20 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight sets to win the Battle of the Sexes ...

In 1973, when I was 12, I was at my father’s house in Los Angeles when he clicked on the TV to watch Billie Jean King play Bobby ... His house was small, so in 1980 he bought Pickfair, the ...

Billie Jean King, a name synonymous with tennis greatness ... and her courage in coming out as gay in the 1980s helped pave the way for greater acceptance and visibility for the community.

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Prior to 1968, the United States National Championships was an amateur event. It became the U.S. Open in 1968 when the ...

Shohei Ohtani joins the 50-50 club after hitting three homers and stealing two bases in Dodgers' laugher over Marlins.

Great Britain’s prospects of team success in Malaga this November have been significantly boosted by Emma Raducanu’s ...

1973 — Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight sets to win the Battle of the Sexes and the $100,000 winner-take-all purse at Houston’s Astrodome. 1980 — Spectacular Bid wins the Woodward Stakes ...

In tennis, the “I” means individual, as in “individual sport,” which tennis surely is. There is only one singles winner at ...

Raducanu was key to Great Britain’s victory over France in the Billie Jean King Cup in April Getty ... first time since the late 1970s and early 1980s. That was the era when Virginia Wade ...