{"id":10750,"date":"2006-08-04T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2019-02-03T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T22:32:42","slug":"rocky-makes-another-all-time-best-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/04\/rocky-makes-another-all-time-best-list\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rocky” Makes Another “All-Time” Best List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Neman<\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0The Richmond Times Dispatch\u00a0<\/b>in his\u00a0August 4, 2006<\/b>\u00a0column takes a look at his “All-Time Best” sports movies.\u00a0Neman\u00a0<\/b>lists\u00a0five movies<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0“Rocky”<\/b>\u00a0makes the cut. Here’s what he says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Rocky,” 1976<\/b>. The ultimate underdog story is told with a seemingly limitless reserve of heart.\u00a0Sylvester Stallone<\/b>, who also wrote the script, skillfully wrung every dram of emotion out of the story and made a feel-good movie about a guy who actually loses the big fight. It is only when he started winning them, in the sequels, that the character became less interesting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thirty years\u00a0<\/b>later and\u00a0“Rocky”<\/b>\u00a0is still getting props. And rightly so. For the full report, click\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/span><\/b>. –\u00a0Craig<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Neman\u00a0of\u00a0The Richmond Times Dispatch\u00a0in his\u00a0August 4, 2006\u00a0column takes a look at his “All-Time Best” sports movies.\u00a0Neman\u00a0lists\u00a0five movies\u00a0and\u00a0“Rocky”\u00a0makes the cut. Here’s what he says: “Rocky,” 1976. The ultimate underdog story is told with a seemingly limitless reserve of heart.\u00a0Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote the script, skillfully wrung every dram of emotion out of the story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2No","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10751,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions\/10751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}