January 22, 2021
Don Sutton did not have the flash of Sandy Koufax, or the intimidating presence of Don Drysdale. He lacked the overpowering fastball of Nolan Ryan, and didn’t fill his mantel with Cy Young awards the way that Tom Seaver or Steve Carlton did. He never won a World Series or threw a no-hitter. Yet Sutton earned a spot in the Hall of Fame alongside those more celebrated hurlers just the same. He was one of the most durable pitchers in baseball history, as dependable as a Swiss watch.
Alas, durability does not confer immortality. Sutton died on Monday at the age of 75, after a long battle with cancer. Son Daron Sutton, a former pitcher and broadcaster in his own right, shared the news on Twitter on Tuesday:
As we see very often, building a custom car takes a lot of work, and might not always come out as good as expected. In the case of this Chevy Caprice, we’d say that its builders accomplished exactly what they wanted.
Built by a shop called Spade Kreations and listed for sale on Streetside Classics with an asking price of $39,995, this 1989 Caprice is eye-catching to say the least.
The one thing that immediately stands out is the green Hulk-themed airbrushing all over the car’s exterior. While it might be a bit gaudy, the job actually seems to be quite professionally executed. The paintwork, which cost an estimated $40,000, is said to be “custom crafted to be a color-coordinated and premium-packaged exhibition” and “more detailed than some Marvel movie plots”.
Butch Stewart Q&A
The Sandals Resorts chain founder, who died on January 4 at age 79, turned a tiny business into a billion-dollar empire.
August 2008
Gordon ( Butch ) Stewart had a comfortable middle-class childhood on Jamaica s Honeymoon Bay, so his story doesn t qualify as a rags-to-riches tale. But he most certainly went to riches. Stewart began his career at the Dutch-owned Curacao Trading Company, where he earned enough in five years as a sales manager to open his own air-conditioner service and distribution business in 1968. That company, Appliance Traders Ltd., expanded rapidly and now sells a wide assortment of household and commercial appliances and supplies.
Cinema’s Goofiest Car Chases: ‘Godzilla’ (1998)
Ah yes, the cinematic car chase. No action/adventure movie is complete without a high-speed pursuit of some kind, and even the most misunderstood films tend to have memorable car-chase moments. In a previous article for
The News Wheel, I highlighted one such goofy scene from the 1973 kaiju flick
Godzilla vs. Megalon. But if you thought the long-running Godzilla series had only one goofy car chase to offer, you’d be incorrect. Prepare to endure one of the silliest car-related scenes in any movie ever made: the climax of
Godzilla (1998).
If I were to attempt a complete explanation for 1998’s American