It’s been 50 years since the most-watched tennis match between female sports icon Billie Jean King and former men’s world No. 1 and self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs.

New evidence, 40 years later, that Bobby Riggs threw the match is beside the point. Riggs versus Billie Jean King wasn’t about tennis or sports or even social change. It was about entertainment.

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, ...

When Don Boyd heard last month that Bobby Riggs might have thrown the Sept. 20, 1973, "Battle of the Sexes" match against Billie Jean King to erase a $100,000 gambling debt with the mob, Boyd says ...

Bobby Riggs didn't train as hard for the Billie Jean King match as he did for his previous "battle of the sexes" against Margaret Court, which he won with ease.

Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - This past summer, it came to light that Bobby Riggs may have been involved in a "fixed match" in his legendary "Battle of the Sexes" highly heralded ...

The grandson of tennis legend Bobby Riggs was arrested Tuesday at the Lauderdale Tennis Club and charged with enticement of a minor and child pornography production, according to Local10.com.

Did Bobby Riggs intentionally lose the famous “Battle of the Sexes’’ tennis match in 1973 against Billie Jean King?A report on Sunday by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” speculates that ...

Bobby Riggs leaps over the net to congratulate Billie Jean King after she beat him in straight sets in the Houston Astrodome on Sept. 20, 1973. King won 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.