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Mike Francesa on Battle of the Sexes Movie

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Mike talks about watching the film Battle of the Sexes.

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

0:03.0

As women's football goes from strength to strength,

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Pepsi Max want to help inspire the next generation to even greater success.

0:10.0

So, just like they are with the men's league,

0:12.0

Pepsi Max are proud sponsors of the UEFA Women's Champions League.

0:16.0

And Pepsi Max are also supporters of inspiring players like

0:20.0

Millie Bright and Leah Williamson,

0:21.9

who really helps showcase what can be achieved in the sport as it reaches ever higher levels.

0:27.0

Pepsi Max, Dusty for More.

0:29.7

I watched the Battle of Sexes movie.

0:35.4

Now, I actually lived a lot of that because I've mentioned through the years, not that

0:43.7

many times, but I've mentioned it, that I interned with the World Team Tennis as part of my internship

0:51.8

with St. John's, I worked for them for two summers and did the games at the

0:58.6

Coliseum, worked for the general manager, worked for, you know, and did all different things that

1:03.1

you do as an intern. Of course, you know, what we had is when when the athletic administration

1:07.5

program started at St. Johns, I was already in the schools as a communications major. They asked me to also double as an athletic administration major,

1:14.9

of which I was part of the first graduating class. I think I was in the top five, the first five

1:21.2

that graduated from that program. And one of the things you had to do was, and obviously, you know,

1:26.6

you wanted the Yankees, you wanted the Giants, you wanted to get those kind of internships, but you got them out of, you know, they did it by some fair, well, at least we thought it was fair at the time. I don't know if it really was. It might have been fixed, who knows. But I wound up with tennis. And I wasn't thrilled, but I actually developed as a kid, and I was a kid, I developed a pretty close

1:49.5

relationship with Billie Jean King, in that we used to spend a lot of time with her, we used to, you know,

1:55.1

be at the arena together, we used to talk sports. She loved sports. You know, she was best friends

2:00.7

with Ed Snyder, who owned the flyers.

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