Sports
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April 15, 1995
Onetime national tennis champion Bobby Riggs, a Wimbledon winner at 21, died Wednesday night.
Oct. 26, 1995
A Necessary Spectacle Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game Selena Roberts Crown: 276 pp., $24.95
Aug. 24, 2005
For those who support women’s tennis--and womankind in general--this was a moment they had dreamed about for the past 12 months.
Aug. 24, 1985
Fifty years ago, Billie Jean King won the “Battle of the Sexes,” inspiring women to pursue their dreams and giving muscle to the women’s rights movement.
Sept. 19, 2023
Vitas Gerulaitis shot his mouth off last year about a battle of the sexes tennis match and, after waving the banner of male supremacy so goadingly that the women cried for his scalp, is now getting what he asked for, kind of.
Aug. 23, 1985
Former Wimbledon and U.S.
May 12, 1988
A consumer’s guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise.
Sept. 21, 1998
Sports * 1/2 “Bobby Riggs: Ageless Tennis.” Academy. $19.95.
April 8, 1988
Tennis star Bobby Riggs, 74, is listed in good condition after undergoing quadruple heart bypass surgery at Mercy Hospital in San Diego last Friday.
Jan. 15, 1993