Top Stories: 50 years ago today, one sporting event changed my life. It changed everything. | Opinion

On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King took on self-described "male chauvinist pig" Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes in the Houston Astrodome.

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