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Musings on Billie Jean King, Tennis, and Dopamine

Posted on June 17, 2007

We were watching tonight a great program on PBS about Billie Jean King and her wonderful tennis career. Her 1973 match, or dare I say grudge match, against Bobby Riggs, was a delight to the eyes and the soul. We relished her strategy of running ragged this aging fool from one end of the court to the other. There she was: a skilled, rebellious young woman facing a male chauvinist who taunted her to test her mettle against his. But the match had a much larger meaning; it was emblematic of the new generation, of a new world upending the old order and its tired prejudices, not in a bloody re...

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