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Daniel Riggs, a tennis coach and grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs, has been arrested in South Florida. Daniel Riggs is ...
"Philadelphia Freedom," written for tennis star Billie Jean King, reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on April 12, 1975.
Bobby Riggs had been a great champion in the 1930s and ‘40s, winner at Wimbledon and Forest Hills, later the world’s best pro. In the early ‘70s, long after Riggs’ glory days, tennis was ...
Everybody watches women’s sports.” Apparently, that’s everybody except the Daily News! Reading your sports section every day, ...
More than two decades since his passing in 1995, the ever-entrepreneurial Bobby Riggs (or his benefactors of choice) will make some more money via a tennis racquet. So goes the auction site's ...
The Long Beach Poly High graduate is the first woman to be honored in the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s sports ...
(Reuters) - American tennis great Billie Jean King has been honoured with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. King, a ...
Cocky little Bobby Riggs—who won the pro tennis championship last December after ten years in the long shadow of Don Budge, first as an amateur, then as a pro—thought it even more fun to be ...
And Riggs, one of the first self-made media-age celebrities, wrestled with his gambling demons, at the expense of his family and wife Priscilla (Elisabeth Shue). Together, Billie and Bobby served ...
To Southern Californians, the first 8,000 miles of barnstorming by Bobby Riggs and Big Jake Kramer didn’t count. The real test was how well they did at home (both come from the Los Angeles area).