How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks

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Riggs means to enjoy every moment of his second childhood, grabbing every dollar and goody within reach. He fantasies that it will go on and on. "After Billie Jean," he says, "it'll be hot-and-cold running women, it'll be the Super Bowl or Rose Bowl of tennis, the Riggs spectacular once a year—the best woman player of the year, that's the one who'll have to play Bobby Riggs." He has also raved about crashing the Virginia Slims tour ("How will they keep me out? Do they want to be called female chauvinist sows?"). He wants to run this opera bouffe all the way, until he is 75 or 80. And that, gentlemen and ladies, is what is known as hustle.