Last year was the first annual Rocky 50k Fat Ass Run, tracing the famous fictive boxer's job to the Art Museum and organized by a Philadelphia woman as a free event with a
charitable component. No awards, road closures, barely organized, with 100 participants. Movie studio MGM, which produced Rocky and Rocky II is up in arms, with lawyers firing off cease-and-desist
letters because she wants to do the run again. But now MGM (who co-opted her idea maybe?) wants to do their own, too, but with cash money involved and organized by Cerulean Sports Group in
Chicago. She has to change the name and is taking suggestions here: https://www.facebook.com/Rocky50k
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