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A Rocky road for Stallone

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Editor's note: This article appears in the Jan. 1 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Being the world's single biggest fan of the Rocky series, as well as the guy who repeatedly tried (and failed) to convince America that A) Sly Stallone ended the Cold War by knocking out Ivan Drago, winning over a Russian crowd and making the "If I can change, and you can change …" speech, and B) "Rocky V" never, ever, ever happened, you can only imagine how I felt after a screening of the inexplicably explicable ...

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