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	Bobby Riggs
		Riggs was part of the American Davis Cup winning team in 1938 and the following year he made it to the finals of the French Open but then won the Wimbledon Championships triple, capturing the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles.
		Riggs was forced to cover the double's court (whereas King only covered the smaller single's court) and Riggs was only allowed one serve before a fault, instead of two.
		Bobby Riggs was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1967.
	www.basictennis.com /Bobby-Riggs.html (721 words)

	Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		That year she also helped establish the Women’s Tennis Association, and was at the forefront of the women’s professional circuit in the United States.
		Her contribution to women’s sport was encapsulated in the so-called “battle of the sexes” tennis match against Bobby Riggs.
		Riggs, who had won Wimbledon in 1939, had challenged King to a match to prove his claim that men were superior to women, in terms of strength and confidence in pressure situations.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1481505267/Billie_Jean_King_vs_Bobby_Riggs_The_Times_Report.html (262 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Tennis Star Bobby Riggs Dies
		Bobby Riggs, 77, a former Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis champion who helped make women's tennis a major spectator and money sport by losing a widely promoted 1973 match to Billie Jean King, died of prostate cancer Oct. 25 at his home in Leucadia, Calif.
		Riggs was ranked as the No. 1 player in the world in 1939 when he won the tournament at Wimbledon, and he subsequently won three U.S. Open championships.
		Riggs was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1988.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1995/95pass5.htm (626 words)

	When Billie Beat Bobby DVD Reviewed on AVRev.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bobby meets her in the bar while she's trying to convince the other female tennis players to go along with a petition she needs signed.
		Bobby Riggs is suddenly in the public eye in Chapter 7 and getting off first from women all over the world to match them in whatever sport that they play.
		Bobby has an offer to play Chris Evert but doesn't want to play her because she is so young that he will come across as a bad guy.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/billiebobby.html (1758 words)

	Bobby Riggs
		Playing tennis from the age of 11, Riggs won several tournaments in the 1930s and helped the U.S. team win the Davis Cup in 1938.
		Riggs was soundly defeated (Sept., 1973) by her before a national television audience and 30,492 spectators in Houston.
		Bobby Riggs - Bobby Riggs Born: Feb. 25, 1918 Tennis won Wimbledon once (1939) and U.S. title twice (1939,41);...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0841901.html (223 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bobby
		The red shoes: Bobby Short in the south of France.
		Turn back the clock: former player and A.L. President Bobby Brown recalls his Yankee career: second baseman was an off-season medical student during his career and managed to hit.439 in 17 World Series games.
		Power plus speed Bobby Bonds: March 15, 1946--August 23, 2003: former slugger was premier leadoff hitter during his era and became first player to have a 30-homer/30-steal season in both leagues.(Biography)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bobby (678 words)

	The Tennis Channel::Press Release Details
		In "Billie Jean vs. Bobby: A Special Edition of Center Court with Chris Myers," Tennis legend and Hall of Famer King sits down with host Chris Myers to share her thoughts on that extraordinary prime-time showdown at the Houston Astrodome and how it changed her life, her career and the sport of tennis.
		Bobby Riggs (1918-1995), probably best known to today's audience for his male chauvinist antics in the 1970s and helping to grow women's tennis into a major spectator and money sport, is considered one of the greatest players of all time.
		A former Wimbledon and US Open champion, Riggs was ranked No. 1 in the world in 1939, the same year he won a rare Grand Slam Triple, winning Wimbledon singles, doubles and mixed-doubles titles in the same year, a feat later matched by King in 1973.
	www.thetennischannel.com /aboutus/pressrelease/pressreleasedetail.aspx?id=53 (1184 words)

	SI.com - Tennis - King vs. Riggs still resonates 30 years later - Wednesday September 17, 2003 7:53PM
		So everywhere King went 30 years ago, there was Riggs hanging around, insisting that they play a match, telling her they would make a fortune.
		Riggs beat her soundly in a winner-take-all $10,000 promotion he called the Mother's Day Massacre.
		In an interview taped before his death in 1995 and to be shown on The Tennis Channel as part of its 30th anniversary airing of Riggs-King match on Saturday, the hustler explained his strategy against Smith.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/tennis/09/17/riggs_king.ap (841 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Dr. Z: King's win over Riggs in '73 never seemed right - Wednesday August 30, 2006 8:56PM
		Bobby Riggs was a favorite over Billie Jean King after he beat Margaret Court.
		She was rightfully honored for her great contributions to tennis, and women's sports in general, and for one match in particular, her 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes.
		Bobby had made a killing in the 1939 Wimbledon Championship when he hit the trifecta, betting on himself to win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2006/writers/dr_z/08/30/riggs.king/index.html (569 words)

	Case Study of Gamesmanship: Riggs vs King Tennis Match - Strategies to Win Competitions
		Bobby Riggs was known as a "character" in tennis circles.
		For many years after his heydays, Riggs supplemented his income by hustling tennis games from unsuspecting players who would assume from his unassuming looks that he was not very good.
		King proceeded to give Riggs a small pig as a gesture that he was a "male chauvinist pig"--a popular expression at the time.
	www.school-for-champions.com /competition/tennis_riggs_king.htm (1083 words)

	Encyclopedia
		Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs on tennis'; Battle of the Sexes
		It was billed as the Battle of the Sexes, a tennis match between Billie Jean King, one of the top female players of her day, and Bobby Riggs, a tennis.
		Imprisoned Irish-Catholic militant Bobby Sands dies after refusing food for 66 days in protest of his treatment as a criminal rather than a political prisoner.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..or031350.a#FWNE.fw..or031350.a (596 words)

	Bobby Riggs Tennis Player
		Bobby Riggs - Bobby Riggs - Bobby Riggs Born: Feb. 25, 1918 Tennis won Wimbledon once - Ron Silver aces tennis role; `Battle of Sexes' match casts Bobby Riggs in -
		Bobby Riggs: Information From Answers.com Riggs, Bobby (Robert Larimore Riggs), 191895, US tennis player, b.
		Bobby Riggs - of Bobby Riggs, did more to increase interest in the game of tennis, - In 1985 at age 67, Bobby Riggs got himself back in the tennis spotlight when he -
	www.basictennis.com /men/Bobby-Riggs-Tennis-Player.html (306 words)

	Bobby Riggs: The Last Boy Scout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bobby Riggs was a man of class, honor and integrity; and he was also a fine athlete of tennis.
		In 1973 a 55 year old Bobby Riggs, who hadn’t played professional tennis in twenty-two years, kicked and embarrassed the shit out of Margaret Smith Court who was 24 years his junior.
		It won’t happen again.” However, at that very moment, women around the world were lining up en masse to throw themselves against Bobby Riggs to at least cover his truths with a pile of defeated tennis-ettes or ruin his life and retirement with constant haranguing and horseshit.
	www.menarebetterthanwomen.com /bobby-riggs-tennis (1332 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Riggs and King linked for eternity
		Segura, 85, was a crony of the late Riggs, whose 1973 match against King in the Houston Astrodome made Billie Jean a celebrity of a sort that no tennis player had been until then and possibly never can be again.
		“Bobby catapulted her name to the man on the street, to bartenders and taxi drivers,” said Lorne Kuhle, who coached Riggs for the match and at his Bobby Riggs Tennis Club in Encinitas has a library in which Riggs memorabilia are displayed.
		Some have contended that Riggs, who earlier at Ramona had teased the great Margaret Court of Australia into defeat with his guile and his slow, slower, slowest assortment of shots, bagged his match against King, that he had wagered on Billie Jean.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20060829-9999-1s29openotes.html (527 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		The movie certainly shows this by underscoring Riggs' efforts to bloat this crazy notion into a megabucks event, finally drawing outspoken feminist King into his scheme because she was cast in the role of womankind's Great Redeemer by the press--and finally began to believe it herself.
		I'm guessing Riggs made her see major dollar signs and that she recognized what all the hoopla could do for her drawing power in the world of real tennis.
		Riggs is long gone, so his material comes from published accounts in the press.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller116.html (959 words)

	Bobby Riggs - The Book
		While having heard enough funny and entertaining anecdotes about Bobby Riggs to fill three books, author Tom LeCompte strives in the The Last Sure Thing to portray a complicated and often contradictory man and the times in which he lived.
		Though his best years were in the 1940s, he was a journeyman player on the amateur circuit when Bobby arrived on the amateur circuit as a brash 17-year-old upstart.
		John Wheelan Riggs is the eldest child from Bobby's second wife, Priscilla Wheelan Riggs.
	www.bobbyriggs.com /templates/book.htm (224 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / The rascally Riggs; humble horse players; ailing but brave boxers
		Almost 30 years ago -- Sept. 20, 1973, to be precise -- Bobby Riggs walked confidently onto a temporary court on the floor of the Houston Astrodome, waved to the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match, and fell on his face.
		Riggs, a winner of championships in his prime, never grew up.
		But as LeCompte found when he began talking to people who'd known Riggs, "everybody seemed to have a favorite story about Bobby." Of such discoveries are entertaining biographies made.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/09/07/the_rascally_riggs_humble_horse_players_ailing_but_brave_boxers_boston_globe (576 words)

	Billy Jean King signed photo v's Bobby Riggs
		Bobby Riggs said no woman could beat him on a tennis court, and Billie Jean King stepped up to the challenge.
		In the epic battle of 1973, the Battle of the Sexes, the 29-year-old King defeated the 55-year-old Riggs, a tennis player known possibly more for his flamboyance than his game, in three straight sets.
		Although Riggs had said he would jump off of a bridge in California if he did lose to a woman, he never did.
	www.sportsonline.com.au /item.aspx?id=7057&cID=16 (252 words)

	Letters: Billie Jean King, tennis queen - Salon
		Bobby Riggs was born before the end of World War 1 and was 55 years old when he played Billie Jean King.
		King, but not for this stunt; I reserve my admiration for the guts and grace she showed when she came out; now that was a performance that deserves to be applauded and admired...
		Riggs entered the court on a rickshaw carried by scantily-clad models because that was all part of the schtick, the show.
	letters.salon.com /mwt/broadsheet/2006/04/24/billie_jean_king/view/?order=asc (1162 words)

	ESPN.com: TENNIS - After 30 years, King-Riggs still resonates
		At first, Billie Jean King kept shooing Bobby Riggs away, essentially telling the tennis hustler to get lost.
		Bobby Riggs poses for Billie Jean King in this publicity photo.
		Riggs proudly proclaimed himself a male chauvinist pig as he hyped the 'Battle of the Sexes."
	espn.go.com /tennis/news/2003/0918/1618910.html (823 words)

	ESPN Classic - Billie Jean King Riggs Bobby in "Battle of Sexes"
		The "Battle of the Sexes" pits the queen of women's tennis, Billie Jean King, against the king of male chauvinists, Bobby Riggs.
		In a circus-like atmosphere in the Astrodome, Billie Jean is transported into the stadium on a Cleopatra-style gold litter that is held aloft by four muscular track-and-field athletes from nearby Rice University.
		Riggs enters in a gold-wheeled rickshaw pulled by six models in tight red-and-gold outfits who have been dubbed, for ample reason, "Bobby's Bosom Buddies." After Riggs presents King with a large candy sucker, she gives him her gift - a brown baby pig.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/moment010920-battle-of-sexes.html (229 words)

	Powell's Books - A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She relates its significance to the day Richard Williams began hitting bald tennis balls to his pigtailed daughters, Venus and Serena; to the glorious afternoon when more than 90,000 fans watched as the U.S. women’s soccer team won the 1999 World Cup; and, ultimately, to the present day’s second-generation battle to keep Title IX alive.
		The book’s poignant last scene between Billie and Bobby serves to remind us how much of an effect that 1973 match—and the passion it fueled for change—continues to have on American society, showing how necessary it was, and how necessary it remains.
		This book on the match, however, is beguiling in structure: it starts with the pair's oddly similar underdog childhoods and slowly builds to the main event — only to turn unexpectedly in the second half into a chronicle of the Title IX movement.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-1400051460-0 (854 words)

	The Tennis Channel Presents 30th Anniversary of King vs. Riggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 90-minute program includes an in-studio interview with Chris Myers and King, and a never-before-seen interview with Riggs giving his views on the match, filmed shortly before his death in 1995.
		King was 29 years old and at the top of her game while Riggs, a 55-year-old ex-pro and self-proclaimed male chauvinist, had been retired for two decades.
		I'll psyche her out so badly, she might not show up." Riggs had already challenged and beaten the top-ranked woman, Margaret Court, in straight sets and many experts picked him to beat Billie Jean.
	www.usta.com /news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=43388 (397 words)

	Riggs, Bobby - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		RIGGS, BOBBY [Riggs, Bobby] (Robert Larimore Riggs), 1918-95, U.S. tennis player, b.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Riggs, Bobby" at HighBeam.
		BOBBY RIGGS, 1925-2004: 'GOOD OLD BOY' PRINCIPAL WAS FOREST HILL HIGH SCHOOL ICON
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-riggs-b1o.html (322 words)

	Amazon.com: A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The legendary 1973 battle of the sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs was equal parts media circus and watershed political moment.
		Riggs had created a context for the match by proclaiming women players so inferior to men that the best woman couldn't beat an over-the-hill hustler.
		The personalities and motivations of Billie Jean and Bobby were so thoroughly explored that as this spectacle of a match was becoming imminent, I could feel the pressure and the tension that must have been felt not only by them, but by many women and men in the 1970s as gender lines were being tested.
	www.amazon.com /Necessary-Spectacle-Billie-Tennis-Leveled/dp/1400051460 (1603 words)

	Bobby Riggs, Me and the U.S. Open
		The Bobby Riggs Tennis Museum didn't have that answer, but it had others: the memorabilia offered a glimpse of a man who brought a very strange sense of humor to a very austere sport.
		I just sat there while Bobby said things like, "If a woman wants to get in the headlines, she should have quintuplets." He was hilarious, in his Sugar Daddy jacket with his briefcase full of vitamins.
		This story told me many things, but first and foremost it made me certain that Bobby Riggs would support my campaign to rename sports with their sounds.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/hyperwocky/090697hyper.html (746 words)

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