GOLDEN AGE OF WOMEN’S SPORTS IS OFFICIALLY UPON US: Here’s a quick, recent sampling of just how far women’s sports have come in recent times:

The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE reports last weekend that as keynote speaker for a youth tennis benefit in San Diego at the city’s Grand Hyatt hotel, tennis legend and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King stayed at a local Comfort Inn.King’s reason: “I stay where the kids stay.”

Wot? Not surprisingly, the U-T didn’t press her further on the strange accommodation arrangement.

Meanwhile, there aren’t many just yet, but you can indeed score an autograph of Olympic Gold Medal-winner Amanda Beard as an open-ass sandwich on Ebay - from her PLAYBOY softcore porno photo shoot (link NSFW).You’ve come a long way, baby!