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  Wikinfo | Billie Jean King
Born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States she is considered to be one of the greatest female tennis players and female athletes in history.
Billie Jean King is the only woman to win U.S. singles titles on all 4 surfaces on which it has been played (grass, clay, indoor, and hard.) She is one of only 8 players to hold a singles title in each of the Grand Slam in tennis events.
Billie Jean King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in 1987.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Billie_Jean_King   (430 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Billie Jean
In about 1981, during a Jacksons tour, a woman known later to be a stalker had accused Jackson of not claiming the paternity of one of her fraternal twins.
She went so far as to call herself "Billie Jean Jackson", and to claim she was married to the singer.
The introduction of the character Billie Jean is foreshadowed by a two-line reference from the album's first track "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", another Jackson-penned song.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Billie_Jean   (2099 words)

  
 Wimbledon - The Official Website of The All England Lawn Tennis Club and The Championships, Wimbledon
And if that were not enough, Billie Jean was the winner of the most talked-about tennis match ever, the so-called ‘Battle of the Sexes’ at the Houston Astrodome in September 1973, when she defeated Bobby Riggs in three straight sets.
Billy Jean competed for the last time at Wimbledon in 1983 when, aged 39, she reached the semi-finals before falling to the teenager, Andrea Jaeger, 6-1, 6-1.
Her record in the development of women’s tennis is unmatched, and Billie Jean King remains deeply involved in the sport as a former captain of the US Fed Cup team and a respected commentator.
www.wimbledon.org /en_GB/about/history/billiejean_king.html   (728 words)

  
 Billie Jean Isbell
When she returned from the Peace Corps, she completed one year at the University of Illinois where she earned her Ph.D. Billie Jean was offered a scholarship to study Chemistry at the University of Texas at the age of 16, but she was unable to attend due to her father's illness.
Billie Jean Isbell is fluent in Spanish and she can read and function on the street of France but she is unable to lecture in French.
Billie Jean lives an exciting life and even though she is retiring next year she is still so involved in so many things.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/isbell_billie.html   (517 words)

  
 Billie Jean King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Billie Jean was born November 22, 1943, making her exactly twenty years old on that day in '63 when JFK was assassinated.
Billie Jean attended California State University, Los Angeles, and in 1960, at the age of seventeen, she was already ranked among the world's top-ten players.
Billie Jean entered the court seated on a throne, while Riggs was carried in by beautiful girls.
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 WIC Biography - Billie Jean King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Billie Jean Moffit was born on November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California.
In her early years she was an exceptional softball player; yet, Billie Jean knew that there was no significant future for a woman in softball.
For her contributions to tennis as President of Tennis-America, Billie Jean King was awarded the National Service Bowl.
www.wic.org /bio/bking.htm   (171 words)

  
 Arkansas Online : Previous Features / Investigations
Billie Jean was on her knees, cradling his head and screaming, "I love you." The pistol was on the bed, its clip removed.
Billie Jean didn't have to be at the store she ran, the Ozark Shoppe, until the night shift began at 6.
Billie Jean's body was against the far wall, face up beneath the air conditioner, her head resting against a smudged fl dresser.
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 King, Billie Jean (1943—) Biography | sjpc_03_package.xml
Billie Jean Moffitt was born in Long Beach, California, on November 22, 1943.
As a teenager, Billie Jean not only fought the elitism of tennis, but she was also aware that girls' sports were valued differently than boys', when the boys' team received funding and the girls had to fend for themselves.
Billie Jean and Larry married in 1965, and Billie Jean put her husband through law school by playing tennis, which she continued to do with great success, winning all the big tournaments.
www.bookrags.com /biography/king-billie-jean-1943-sjpc-03   (1121 words)

  
 Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
Billie Jean King was one of the greatest Wimbledon champions, winning the singles title six times.
Yet she also burnt a trail for women athletes when she became the first woman athlete of any sport to earn more than US$100,000 in a year in 1971.
Original spellings, with Billy Jean King preferred on occasion to Billie Jean King, have been retained.
uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1481505267/Billie_Jean_King_vs_Bobby_Riggs_The_Times_Report.html   (262 words)

  
 Billie Jean King - MSN Encarta
Billie Jean King, born in 1943, American tennis player, whose intense competitiveness, outspoken support for better treatment of women players, and victory, in 1973, over former men's star Bobby Riggs in an exhibition match were all instrumental in increasing the popularity of women's tennis.
Billie Jean Moffitt was born in Long Beach, California, and educated at Los Angeles State College (now California State College at Los Angeles).
In 1996 she was chosen to coach the U.S. women's team at that year's Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559878/King_Billie_Jean.html   (413 words)

  
 The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born: Number 1 on Blender.com
Above all, “Billie Jean” marked a coming of age, the moment when a former kiddie singing star blossomed into a new generation’s equivalent of Elvis and the Beatles — the late 20th century’s preeminent pop icon.
Jackson’s previous solo hits had been awash in the lush sounds of disco, but “Billie Jean” was almost frighteningly stark, with a pulsing, cat-on-the-prowl bass figure, whip-crack downbeat and eerie multi-tracked vocals ricocheting in the vast spaces between keyboards and strings.
Today, “Billie Jean” seems more than anything like a parable of the twisted relations between celebrities and their fans, a theme dramatized in the video, in which Jackson is pursued by a creepy gumshoe in a trench coat.
www.blender.com /guide/articles.aspx?ID=1777   (1091 words)

  
 Billie Jean King Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Billie Jean (Moffit) King was born on November 22, 1943, in the southern California city of Long Beach.
Billie Jean developed an interest in tennis at an early age and saved money to buy her first racket.
Billie Jean Moffit married attorney Larry King in 1968 and turned professional the same year that the championships at Wimbledon were opened to professionals as well as amateurs.
www.bookrags.com /biography/billie-jean-king   (717 words)

  
 WTT : Billie Jean King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Billie Jean King was born Nov. 22, 1943 and grew up in Long Beach, Calif., where her father, Bill, worked for the Long Beach Fire Department and her mother, Betty, was a homemaker.
Billie Jean's brother, Randy Moffitt was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for 13 years (pitched with the San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays).
At age 11, Betty picked Billie Jean up from a free tennis lesson at Houghton Park in Long Beach and Billie told her "I am going to be No. 1 in the world." Betty thought that was nice and then reminded Billie Jean she had homework to complete and piano lessons to practice.
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 Billie Jean Happy Tails page
Billie jean is a sweet little Chihuahua mix who came to the Sanctuary when her person died.
Arrangements were completed and Billie Jean went to live with her new "mom"..
Billie Jean misses her mom but she is adjusting to being with all her canine friends again.
www.anmlangls.org /billiejean.htm   (382 words)

  
 ESPN Classic - Billie Jean won for all women
Along came Billie Jean, just at the moment when a lot of the rhetoric of the women's movement was really meeting reality," says Hillary Clinton on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.
Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles, including six Wimbledon championships and four U.S. crowns.
She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on Nov. 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, the daughter of a firefighter father and homemaker mother.
www.espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/King_Billie_Jean.html   (1395 words)

  
 The Legend of Billie Jean Movie -The 80s Rewind «
Billie Jean, Binx and her friends, Ophelia (Martha Gehman) and Putter (Yeardley Smith), escape and go on the run.
Very soon, Billie Jean learns that she is wanted by the local authorities, along with her brother and her friends.
When Billie Jean is running away from the cops at the mall, she turns a corner and suddenly the set looks all office-like.
www.fast-rewind.com /legendbilliejean.htm   (2616 words)

  
 Fool.com: TMF Interview: Billie Jean King [Special] July 3, 2002
Billie Jean King won a record 20 Wimbledon titles and 71 singles titles over the course of her career.
Billie Jean King: Well, I can tell you in 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar.
Billie Jean King: (Laughs) Dumbest investments are the dot-com's, but I knew it was a dumb investment and I didn't care.
www.fool.com /Specials/2002/02070300king.htm   (1757 words)

  
 Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Billie Jean Young
Billie Jean Young is an actor, activist, poet, and educator who works at home and abroad on behalf of social and economic justice for all people.
Billie Jean Young also works to bring attention to the economic and social injustices prevalent in the area of the deep South known as the Black Belt region.
To that end, and in the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer, Billie Jean represents her non-profit organizations, the Drama Project and Southwest Alabama Association of Rural and Minority women nationwide and in other countries.
www.speakoutnow.org /People/BillieJeanYoung.html   (600 words)

  
 Billie Jean King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Billie Jean King was the first female athlete to win $100,000 in one season.
Billie Jean King spoke for women rights and their right to earn the same amount of money as men in tennis and other sports.
Billie thought that prize money for women should be the same amount as the prize money for men.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/king5.htm   (226 words)

  
 Billie Jean's Wig Salon - Houston Texas
Billie Jean's Hair Salon offers a relaxed, discreet environment to try on wigs and receive professional assistance for the perfect fit.
Located in the River Oaks Area of Houston Texas, Billie Jeans is only 2 miles west from downtown Houston and only 2 miles north of the Houston Medical Center.
For over 40 years Billie Jean and Cookie have been helping clientele find that "perfect" wig.
www.billiejeans.com /index.html   (121 words)

  
 Billie Jean King
This bouncy, tomboyish daughter of a California fireman left a legacy of grit and determination, of an unbreakable will and tenacity not fully reflected in the scores of her court triumphs carved in the record books...
The fireman's daughter, Billie Jean Moffitt King began blazing through the tennis world in 1960 when she first appeared in women's rankings at No, 4.
For more than two decades she continued as a force in the game as the all-time Wimbledon champion, frequently the foremost player, a crusader in building the female professional game and a million-dollar-plus winner on the tour...
www.queertheory.com /histories/k/king_billie_jean.htm   (304 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Billie Jean won for all women
Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles.
It isn't a reach to say that Billie Jean King has done the most for women in their fight for equality in sports.
She was born Billie Jean Moffitt on Nov. 22, 1943 in Long Beach, Calif., the daughter of a firefighter father and homemaker mother.
espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016060.html   (1262 words)

  
 Billie Jean King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billie Jean Moffitt King (born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is a retired tennis player from the United States.
On August 28, 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park was rededicated as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Against her major rivals at the Australian Championships/Open, King was 1-0 versus Kerry Melville Reid, 1-0 versus Judy Tegart Dalton, 1-0 versus Evonne Goolagong, 1-0 versus Ann Haydon Jones, 1-2 versus Margaret Court, and 0-1 versus Chris Evert.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billie_Jean_King   (3380 words)

  
 Billie Jean King Bio
As one of the 20th century’s most respected women, Billie Jean King has long been a champion for social change and equality.
Through her foundation, Billie Jean King World TeamTennis Charities, King works to inspire all humankind in the pursuit of excellence regardless of race, gender, physical or mental challenges, appearance, or sexual orientation.
- Billie Jean King was born Nov. 22, 1943 and grew up in Long Beach, Calif., where her father, Bill, worked for the Long Beach Fire Department and her mother, Betty, was a homemaker.
www.springfieldlasers.com /bjkBio.htm   (1798 words)

  
 Billie Jean King - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Billie Jean King - Search Results - MSN Encarta
King, Billie Jean, born in 1943, American tennis player, whose intense competitiveness, outspoken support for better treatment of women players, and...
This 1973 Los Angeles Times article takes an amused look at the highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” between women's tennis champion Billie Jean...
encarta.msn.com /Billie_Jean_King.html   (119 words)

  
 Billie Jean
There is no more perfect revelation of this than in his performance of "Billie Jean," both on record and on stage.
The version of the dance which he performed on Motown 25 created pleasure through the achievement of mastery over chaotic forces, not through the traditional rock 'n' roll approach of creating chaos in the midst of oppressive serenity.
Billie Jean is not my lover/ And the kid is not my son." He both tries and tries not to remember what happened on the night he danced with "Billie Jean" at a disco.
www.culturalstudies.net /billie.html   (1004 words)

  
 AfterEllen.com - Billie Jean King Honored at U.S. Open   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There was Chris Evert, who called Billie Jean the most influential person in her life outside her family.
Ilana Kloss, the former tennis pro from South Africa who Billie Jean, 62, has shared her life with for more than two decades, was present, but out of view of USA Network cameras.
King and Kloss have been fairly low-key over the years but on the recent HBO special, Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer, their relationship was front-and-center as King discussed her sexuality with great honesty.
www.afterellen.com /People/2006/9/billiejeanking.html   (695 words)

  
 John McEnroe, Venus Williams, TENNIS - CBS SportsLine.com
NEW YORK -- Billie Jean King made quite a name for herself on and off the court, all around the globe.
"Billie Jean was the biggest single influence in my life outside of my family," Evert said.
"Billie Jean King is a great champion, but she's used her success to do a lot more than impact the sport," Kantarian said.
cbs.sportsline.com /tennis/story/9624666   (710 words)

  
 Billie Jean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On March 6, 2006, "Billie Jean" was re-released as a single in the UK as part of Visionary - The Video Singles.
It is important to note that the actual choreography of "Billie Jean" has not changed much since the Motown 25 performance, but has been enhanced through continual performance and improvement.
In 2005, Blender magazine declared that "Billie Jean" was the greatest song released after 1980.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billie_Jean   (2142 words)

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