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Billie Jean King talks tennis, LGBT athletes, keys to a successful career
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King is so busy attending events during the U.S. Open, she hardly has time to watch matches at the venue that bears her name. However, King still has plenty of opinions on tennis and other topics. She believes Serena Williams can win “tons” more Grand Slam titles and Michael Sam “made history” despite not making the roster of an NFL team.
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Notre Dame’s Matt Dooley: The hardest person to tell he is gay was himself
Notre Dame tennis player Matt Dooley said the hardest person to tell he was gay was himself. “Saying gay for the first time was extremely tough, almost choking, because you know your life will never be the same. That was the hardest part, to move forward from there,” the 22-year-old senior said Thursday.
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Billie Jean King talks Sochi Olympics, LGBT rights, openly gay athletes
Billie Jean King’s taxi ride home after the Sochi Olympics included a revelation. She had just returned from a whirlwind three days at the Sochi Games, part of the U.S. delegation for the closing ceremony chosen by President Barack Obama. She watched the gold-medal men’s hockey game won by Canada, went up the mountain for bobsled, greeted U.S. athletes and met a Russian gay teenager…
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Billie Jean King to attend Olympics’ closing ceremony in Sochi
WASHINGTON — Billie Jean King will attend the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia as part of President Barack Obama’s official U.S. delegation.
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Billie Jean King won’t attend Sochi opening due to family illness
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King will not attend Friday’s opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia because her mother is ill.
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Billie Jean King part of diplomacy by diversity: ‘We reflect part of America’
Billie Jean King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it, so she had no hesitation joining the U.S. delegation for the Sochi Olympics.
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Obama to skip Olympic games, selects gay athletes for Sochi delegation
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with who he is – and isn’t – sending to represent the United States at the Sochi Olympics.
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Billie Jean King reflects on being a gay, professional athlete in the 1970s
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Billie Jean King said Tuesday that she couldn’t have revealed herself as being gay in the 1970s because it would have damaged the fledgling women’s professional tennis tour.
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National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame honors athletes
CHICAGO — Dave Pallone, who was part of Chicago history when he umpired the first night game at Wrigley Field, is returning to Chicago to take part in another chapter of American sports history: His inclusion in the inaugural class of what organizers say is the first-of-its-kind National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
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Gay celebrities speak out on Obama’s LGBT accomplishments
In a new campaign video for President Barack Obama, celebrities Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Zachary Quinto, Chaz Bono, Wanda Sykes, George Takei, and Billie Jean King speak out about Obama’s LGBT accomplishments.