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25 Fictional Sports Moments That Get Me Every Time

July 27, 2021 Gowdy Cannon 8 Comments A League Of Their Own, Cool Runnings, Friday Night Lights, Harry Potter, Hoosiers, Major League, Major League II, Necessary Roughness, Over the top, Remember The Titans, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky IV, Rudy, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid II, The Sandlot, The Waterboy

25 Fictional Sports Moments For The Ages

Family Theology

When My Marriage Needs “Rocky and Adrian” Conversations

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 Gowdy Cannon 11 Comments marriage, Rocky, Rocky III, Rocky IV

After I introduced my wife to the Rocky franchise early in our marriage, she said, “This is a love story.”

Current Events Film Reviews

Creed II Spoiler Review: Two Sequels, One Film

March 4, 2019July 25, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 1 Comment Adonis Creed, Buddy Marcelle, Creed, Creed 2, Creed II, Dolph Lundgren, Mary Anne Creed, Michael B. Jordan, Milo Ventimiglia, Phylicia Rashad, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Sports Movies, Sylvester Stalone, Tessa Thompson

Rocky IV and Creed 1, The Sequel

An Indefinitive Ranking of the Rocky Movies (Part 2)

November 21, 2018July 28, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 6 Comments Creed, Movies, Rocky, Sports Movies

The Top Four Movies in the Rocky Canon (2422 words)

An Indefinitive Ranking of the Rocky Movies (Part 1)

November 19, 2018July 28, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 10 Comments Creed, Movies, Rocky, Sports Movies

Movies 7 to 5 of Gowdy’s personal rankings, plus a ranking of every final fight in the movies (2000 words)

The Hobbits in The Return of the King

Five Movie Moments That Made Me Ugly Cry

December 1, 2017June 21, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 14 Comments Armageddon, Bruce Almighty, Cast Away, Crying, Return of the King, Rocky

They’re not Hallmark, but they made this man cry. (1,085 words)