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Back to school

Posted on February 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Back to school

Mr. B. went back to school today, where he’s learning probabilities, writing book reports and practicing cursive. He was home yesterday with a sore throat, which came with ice cream, popsicles and fruit juice. Today, he’ll have to settle for water. But, this afternoon, after baseball practice, there’ll be Gatorade.

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Helping players wee-wee

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Helping players wee-wee

Hard as it is to imagine a football coach saying "wee-wee," that’s the legend of how the popular (nay, ubiquitous) sports drink of Gatorade came to be, according to its inventor, Dr. J. Robert Cade, who died yesterday in Florida. He was 80. The first concoction wasn’t so good, though. Native Texan Cade, who graduated from UT Southwestern medical school in Dallas, vomited.

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