Billie Jean King Earns College Diploma at 80

Billie Jean King’s 65-year journey to a college diploma, and finishing what she started

Thousands of people in America will collect their college degrees this weekend, among the roughly 2 million students expected to graduate this spring. Only one of them will do so having won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 in singles. “I’m still getting messages all day long, I can’t keep up,” Billie Jean King said in an interview Friday, a little less than a week after she walked the stage at California State University, Los Angeles, to collect her diploma — a real one, not one of those honor