{"id":7039,"date":"2011-05-26T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:10:10","slug":"hines-ward-takes-the-%e2%80%98dancing%e2%80%99-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Hines Ward Takes The \u2018Dancing\u2019 Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <strong>Hines Ward <\/strong>rode Steeler Nation to another championship Tuesday night: the Mirror Ball trophy in Season 12 of ABC&#8217;s Dancing With the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Pro wide receiver beamed his trademark smile as he hoisted the glittering globe with dance partner <strong>Kym Johnson <\/strong>amid a stream of confetti and whoops from Terrible Towel-waving fans in the studio audience. In that audience was<strong> Emmitt Smith<\/strong>, the only other NFL player to win the trophy. <strong>Ward<\/strong> dedicated his last dance Tuesday to his mom, <strong>Kim Young-hee<\/strong>, and kissed her (and waved a Steelers Terrible Towel) afterward.<\/p>\n<p>With a committed partner by his side (<strong>Johnson<\/strong> sustained a serious injury two weeks before the finale, causing her to wear a neck brace during semifinals rehearsals), <strong>Ward<\/strong> topped actress <strong>Kirstie Alley<\/strong> and Disney star <strong>Chelsea Kane.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s phenomenal,&#8221; <strong>Ward<\/strong> said after the show. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to apologize for winning. I didn&#8217;t want to let <strong>Kym<\/strong> down all season \u2014 I wanted her to win a second Mirror Ball. (She won with <strong>Donny Osmond<\/strong> in Season 9). I hope I represented well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he vowed to do a &#8220;tribute&#8221; to her \u2014 an end-zone dance \u2014 after every touchdown he scores next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Hines Ward rode Steeler Nation to another championship Tuesday night: the Mirror Ball trophy in Season 12 of ABC&#8217;s Dancing With the Stars. The All-Pro wide receiver beamed his trademark smile as he hoisted the glittering globe with dance partner Kym Johnson amid a stream of confetti and whoops from Terrible Towel-waving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}