# Billie Jean King

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How 1.5 Million Followers Helped Coach Jackie Change Women’s Sports Media

Coach Jackie came for the party and immediately put Abby and Julie’s vibes under review in a classic “Are They Gay or Are They Just Podcast Hosts”. The women’s sports creator joins Abby Wambach and Julie Foudy to talk about turning fandom into a career, using humor to tackle serious issues, and why…

#21 - How Billie Jean King changed the world

In her amazing autobiography All In, tennis legend Billie Jean King delivers an intimate self-portrait of a life dedicated to equality, athletic excellence, and social justice. She recounts her tremendous tennis achievements, how she led the movement for equality between female and male tennis play…

First Trans Supreme Court Lawyer Exposes the Truth About Women’s Sports

In Part 1, we invited you to slow down, ask questions and listen longer. In Part 2 of this special three-part series, Julie Foudy, Abby Wambach and Billie Jean King continue that conversation with Dr. Anna Baeth and Ellie Roscher, authors of Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports, takin…

Billie Jean King Loves Women's Sports

Welcome to Is She Game! On this first episode, Coach Jackie is joined by the one and only Billie Jean King--tennis pioneer, women's sports advocate, and famed lesbian. The two show some love to BJK's most recent book, See It to Be It: Eleven Champions Leading Women's Sports Today, and Billie Jean d…

You've Been Carrying It So Long You Think It's Yours

“Pressure is a privilege.” — Billie Jean King One of the quietest lies a man tells himself is that the weight he’s carrying means something is wrong. We’ve been conditioned to read pressure as a signal to slow down, back off, or reassess. When the load gets heavy, something in us wants to call it a…

Johnette Howard: “Why Do You Think You Can Say That to Me?”

Johnette Howard has never been afraid to stand her ground while reporting and writing about sports for four decades. Hear what she told Bill Laimbeer and Kirby Puckett when they challenged her early in her career. Howard has also always followed her curiosity, which has led her to craft award-winni…

Crowing of a King | Billie Jean King. Tennis, Equality, Coming Out and the Cost of Being Outed

Send us Fan Mail Crowning of a King | BILLIE JEAN KING.  Tennis, Equality, Coming Out and the Cost of Being Outed. Most people remember Billie Jean King for defeating Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes.” But her most difficult match may have begun years later, when a former lover’s lawsuit ex…

205 Stephen Amritraj on Bringing Back World Team Tennis and Building a League for Today’s Fans

Stephen Amritraj joins the Sports Business Leaders Podcast to discuss the return of World Team Tennis, the mixed-gender professional league co-founded by Billie Jean King in 1974. After five years away, WTT is preparing for a December 2026 return across New York, Toronto, and South Florida. Stephen…

She Ran Into a Collapsing Building to Save a Child (Then Lost Her Legs)

What makes a hero? In this special episode, Julie Foudy, Abby Wambach and Billie Jean King celebrate two extraordinary women who stepped up when it mattered most. Rose Belden was just 10 years old when she risked her life to save a three-year-old girl during Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. Aft…

Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live)

ShondaLand CEO Shonda Rhimes, the TV producer behind hits like "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away With Murder," talks with Recode's Kara Swisher at the 2017 Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. Rhimes says she took a four-year exclusive deal with Netflix because it offers her more cr…