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Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in...
Tags: Anna Kournikova, Colon Cancer, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Kramer, Spring Training
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Los Angeles City Section Hall of Fame adds 42 members
In the 78-year history of high school sports in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the number of Olympians produced, major league players developed and Hall of Fame members inducted from a variety of sports is staggering. So now you can understand...Tags: Robin Yount, Mike Haynes, Los Angeles Unified School District, Eddie Murray, Joe Perry
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KTLA-List: Tennis Great Billie Jean King
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Winning 39 grand slams including 20 Wimbledon titles -- there's no arguing the legendary Billie Jean King scores as tennis' most preeminent player. But off the court, the Long Beach native is known as "the" champion for social...Tags: KTLA, Minority Groups, Tennis, Wimbledon Championships
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New Black Films behind 'Battle of the Sexes': Docu portrays women's fight for equal pay in sports
VarietyBy Steve Clarke LONDON Local shingle New Black Films is producing a theatrical documentary about Billie Jean King and the battle to establish equal pay in women's sports. "The Battle of the Sexes" focuses on the years 1968-73 climaxing with the tennis...Tags: Documentary (genre), Tennis, Sundance Film Festival, Feminism, Movies
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Virgen's View: King pumped for new Breakers
Billie Jean King wasn't bashful about her opinion on the state of tennis during a quaint meet-and-greet for the new Orange County Breakers at the Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa Tuesday night. She said tennis, mainly men's, is great globally, but the U.S. is...Tags: Lindsay Davenport, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Tennis
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Title IX's 40th anniversary sparks memories of Lopez, Lieberman, Evert, Strug
Nancy Lopez was the first, an electric 21-year-old who had commandeered women's golf. So a buddy and I sneaked onto the Pine Ridge course in suburban Baltimore and watched Lopez dust the field for the third victory of her rookie season. It was May 1978,...Tags: Lindsay Davenport, Nancy Lopez, Chris Evert, Lisa Leslie, Basketball
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Amarillo Slim dies at 83; poker's first celebrity
It was 3 a.m. in Las Vegas in May 1972. Thomas Austin Preston Jr., better known as Amarillo Slim, had won the main event at the World Series of Poker less than two hours earlier, and there he was looking for a game — any game. "As long as it's for...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colon Cancer, The Tonight Show (tv program), Crimes, Trials
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Best-ever ballparks
Fenway Park turned 100 on Friday, standing grander than ever. No place does better combining history with technology, and the clam chowder's awfully good too. In honor of Fenway, here's one guy's take on baseball's best-ever ballparks. The only caveat is...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Comerica Park, Bill Veeck, Alicia Keys, Ty Cobb
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'McMillan & Wife: Season Four'
Zap2ItSince the Rock Hudson-Susan Saint James series about San Francisco's police commissioner and his spouse was part of NBC's "Mystery Movie" anthology in the 1970s, any of its seasons consisted of only a relative handful of episodes. Six is the number here,...Tags: Steven Bochco, Rock Hudson, New York City Police Department, NBC (tv network), DVDs
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Remarkable Person: Jodi Norgaard
Imagine browsing the store for toys with your 9-year-old daughter, and she picks up a doll wearing a half shirt, belly ring and eye shadow.
"Mommy, is this doll for me to play with?" she asks.
That's what happened to Jodi Norgaard, and it inspired her...Tags: U.S. Open (tennis), Human Interest, Tennis, Toy Industry, Elections
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PASSINGS: Pauline Betz Addie, Giorgio Tozzi, Harry Redmond Jr., James Woodress, Mark Dantzler
Pauline Betz Addie 1940s tennis champion in Hall of Fame Pauline Betz Addie, 91, a champion tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1946 without dropping a set during the entire tournament, died Tuesday at an assisted-living facility in Potomac, Md., the...Tags: Booth Tarkington, Athletes, Washington, DC, Grammy Awards, U.S. Open (tennis)
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Morrissey disses women's hoops. How dare he? Here's how
Change of SubjectIn his column Sunday, "We couldn't care less about women's basketball," Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Morrissey explains and defends the relative indifference of American sports fans to the dynastic University of Connecticut and other teams in female...
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