CHICAGO — Happy Thursday! Here's what we're reading around the web today.
There's a New Star Wars Trailer: Well here's a link that's sure to keep you distracted at work. A new Star Wars teaser showed up on YouTube today. It features a gray-haired Han Solo and an ageless Chewbacca.
Force is strong in this teaser. Want proof: try to watch it only once.
Buckle Up Or Become a Zombie: The Chicago Tribune today reported about an Illinois Department of Transportation public service campaign aimed at 20-somethings. "The Driving Dead" is a web series aimed at curbing drunken driving and increasing seatbelt usage. It features Michael Rooker, aka Merle Dixon, from the "Walking Dead."
IDOT has paid $142,500 for each of the two episodes, spokesman Guy Tridgell told the Trib. The funding came from a federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant for public safety campaigns.
Because It's The Cup: As its hockey playoffs season, a great read over at comics site The Nib is "Meet the Stanley Cup," the history of the only sports trophy that may be more famous than the competition in which teams win it.
A Good Catch: More than 250 people have played for both the Cubs and the White Sox, including Jim King. In a 1964 game, he hit for the cycle — single, double, triple and homerun. But senior editor Andrew Herrmann was more intrigued by King's life after he retired in 1967. His obituary in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette describes how, after baseball, King worked 24 years for the White River Telephone company on a cable crew.
In an era when male athletes are too often linked to troubled relationships with women, there was something reassuring about his son David's quote: "Having Jim King, the baseball player, as a dad was a neat deal growing up, but he was much more than that. He and my mother, Rose, were married for 61 years and I never heard him raise his voice to her, not once. He taught me what a man is supposed to be and treated everyone with respect until the day he died."
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