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 – queen of the ’60s and ’70s tennis ... Billie Jean was very publicly outed when Marilyn Barnett, an assistant she’d formed a relationship with, sued her for palimony.

In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King (Emma ... friendship with Marilyn Barnett (Andrea ...

Tennis icon, equality champion and trailblazer—all words that spring to mind when meeting Billie Jean King. Tennis Channel DE was one of a select few invited to a roundtable with the 81-year-old ...

Outside the lines is where the dialogue around Billie Jean King usually plays out. And why not? After all, the case can be made that no single athlete has accomplished more beyond the playing field.

Her work has previously appeared in CBS Essentials and The Daily Northwestern. When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles, including six Wimbledon championships and four U.S. crowns. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent ...