Culture of Philadelphia

Rocky Balboa fans are ready to go the distance — by bus, by ice skates, by 72 steps — to honor Philly's favorite fictional fighter almost 50 years after the first movie launched the enduring series of an underdog boxer persevering despite the odds.

Comcast Corp, the biggest cable operator in the United States, has offered to pay $31 billion to buy Sky, the European pay-TV group that has agreed to be sold to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox.