ByErin Spencer Sairam,

Senior Contributor.

B

illie Jean King recently went back to school to pursue the college degree she abandoned at the height of her tennis career, but on a recent fall morning, King is working in the mode of teacher, not student.

“Money is the one thing that everyone understands,” she says while recounting a moment that would go down as one of the most defining in the history of women’s sports. “I'm bigger on relationships personally, but money talks.”