Renee Richards's Books
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No Way ReneeIn 1975, at the age of forty, Richard Raskind, a renowned eye surgeon and highly ranked amateur tennis player, ""died,"" and Renée Richards was...Read More
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Houston Chronicle, November 18, 2012
..."moved without the ball like a dog in heat." Along with basketball's Nancy Lieberman and tennis' Renee Richards, the editors had the wit to include characters such as Jack Molinas, known as the "point shaver" but really an entrepreneur in the fraud and...
Denver Post, October 28, 2012
...by Jan Reid (The Denver Post | HANDOUT)and Jane Leavy profile Jewish athletes from Sandy Koufax to Renee Richards in this omnibus. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, Edited by Dan Wakefield. Most of the scores of bits of personal correspondence in this volume have...
SI.com, October 24, 2012
...Armada. He will be missed. • Lawrence Summers writes about his fondness for Harold Solomon. Emily Bazelon on Renee Richards. Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson writing about Marty Reisman. David Reminick on Howard Cosell. (Full disclosure: yours...
SI.com, October 24, 2012
...Armada. He will be missed. • Lawrence Summers writes about his fondness for Harold Solomon. Emily Bazelon on Renee Richards. Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson writing about Marty Reisman. David Reminick on Howard Cosell. (Full disclosure: yours...
Slate Magazine, October 23, 2012
...run the essays from Steven Pinker (on Red Auerbach), Jonathan Safran Foer (on Bobby Fischer), and Bazelon (on Renee Richards...
SCPR, May 10, 2013
...Tennis player Renee Richards on the tennis court, July 1977.; Credit: / Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s AB 1266 would allow transgender students in public K-12 schools to use bathrooms and participate in team...
MCN, May 7, 2013
...did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy." Tennis Player Renee Richards Richards is an ophthalmologist, author, and former professional tennis player. After transitioning in 1975, she was banned from playing...
Huffington Post, May 7, 2013
...did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy." Tennis Player Renee Richards Richards is an ophthalmologist, author, and former professional tennis player. After transitioning in 1975, she was banned from playing...
Lehigh Valley Live, May 5, 2013
...ophthalmologist, rocked the professional tennis world when he announced that he was going to become a trans-gendered athlete (Renee Richards) and play as a woman in the U.S. Open. For those not familiar with that situation, Richards was mocked, scowled...
American Civil Liberties Union, May 1, 2013
...Czech-American tennis great Martina Navratilova came out publicly as bisexual way back in 1981. Then a rising star, Navratilova went on to win a record total of 167 singles tournaments and become arguably the greatest women's tennis player of all time....
Huffington Post Canada, April 30, 2013
...did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy." Tennis Player Renee Richards Richards is an ophthalmologist, author, and former professional tennis player. After transitioning in 1975, she was banned from playing...
Tennis.com, April 29, 2013
...The biggest story in sports today is Jason Collins's: The NBA veteran, in an article for Sports Illustrated , became the first male athlete in a major professional team sport in the U.S. to declare publicly that he's gay. It's a big deal, and something...
