Gatorade Inventor, R.I.P.

As Keith Jackson has told us on numerous occasions, Dr. Robert Cade invented the sports drink in 1965 for the University of Florida’s football team. But Dr. Cade spent much of his time ’round these parts, attending UT-Southwestern and doing his residency at Parkland. The never-thirsty doctor died of kidney failure. He was 80.

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