More than five decades after tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in what was known as the “Battle of the Sexes, ...

Billie Jean King is one of the ... for social change and equality. King created new inroads for men and women in sports and beyond during her legendary career and she continues to make her mark ...

Billie Jean King made her professional tennis debut in Cannes, in the South of France, in the spring of 1968. That sounds like a suitably glamorous birthplace for such a storied pro career ...

Caitlin Clark's early WNBA career has been met with unprecedented ... including tennis legend and women's sports icon Billie ...

The sky is the limit for Billie Jean King. The tennis legend — dubbed “Equality Champion” — is setting her sights on a new ...

Billie Jean King held the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis for years, and now she'll be No. 1 again, this time as the first ...

Billie Jean’s life and career is an example of using one’s platform and talents for positive, lasting change,” Gillibrand said last year in a statement introducing the bill. King ...

King, who played catch with her dad and baseball with her brother, Randy Moffitt – who pitched 12 years in the major leagues ...

Billie Jean King on her legendary career and fight for equal pay in women’s sports Today, some women’s tennis players are among the highest-paid athletes in the world. But that wasn’t always ...

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

Tennis legend Billie Jean King ... down on the field were men," King said in a foreword to the book, “See Her Be Her,’’ that will be released in early October. “There I was, a girl ...

Bipartisan legislation to award King the medal passed through the House of Representatives, and now it will head to the president's desk for a signature. Billie Jean King will go down in history ...