Ken Cable

Internal medicine physician, Health Plan medical director. We have gone all EV with EQS SUV, Rivian R1T, and Tesla model 3.

[Greg Mescall @GregMescall]

No surprise @SInow legend Gary Smith wrote an exceptional obituary.

More impressive, the life his wife Sally lived.

https://t.co/0EGcZewrAB

[James Palmer @JamesPalmerTV]

A quick Larry Fitzgerald story. When John McCain passed away in 2018 Larry was asked to speak at the service. McCain and Fitzgerald developed a unique friendship that dated back to 2006. They had a tremendous amount of respect for one another. Larry wanted that moment to be perfect. He considered it a privilege to have the opportunity to honor a man he held in the highest regard. So Fitz used the famous work ethic he was known for as a player on that speech. He used the same attention to detail that got him to Canton today.

Back in 2018 it was an early morning at the Cardinals practice facility and I was doing hits for NFL Network. I was the only person in the media workroom. Larry walked into the room in a suit, he said hello, and he went into a back room. He didn’t come back out for hours. Later that day I asked around about what Larry was doing. I was told he was practicing. He was wearing the suit he was going to wear at the service. He was standing at a podium in that room to simulate the setting for his speech to honor his friend. He cared so much that he wouldn’t quit until he felt it was perfect. And when he took that stage he was. Just as he was today with his speech in Canton. Some people are just wired a certain way. With a work ethic and drive to be great in everything they do. It’s why Larry Fitzgerald is a Hall of Fame football player and Hall of Fame person.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The next total solar eclipse (Greenland, Iceland, Spain etc) is on 12 August. Eclipses are genuinely one of the strangest accidents in our planetary history.

Totality lasts only minutes, but the alignment is mind-bending.

1/n

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

https://t.co/r6ibHwLLMU

[Josh Weinfuss @joshweinfuss]

I love this so much…

And yet another reason why sports are amazing

[Ahmed Bendary (د. أحمد بندارى) @DrBendary]

https://t.co/1WGXesz6DQ

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

At @JAMA_current today, 2 radiologists publish what should be the consent form for a total body MRI in healthy people
Note: "no major medical society recommends whole-body MRI screening in the general population because it is unproven, and the harms likely outweigh the benefits."
https://t.co/TRSkxDwb6K

[Ken Cable @drkencable]

@Kidfears99 This has only happened once to me in my 47 years with T1 and was due to West Nile virus. I found fruit smoothies the best, actually craved them.

[O País Do Ciclismo @opaisdociclismo]

Pra quem não viu a @parisroubaix, a criançada fez um resumo..

[Paola Boivin @PaolaBoivin]

This is messed up: Dental Student Dies Under Care of Telehealth Doctor in “Fake ICU” https://t.co/l2gy3aTOiu

[John Morton, PGA @JohnMorton215]

I got one of the famed 2026 gnomes this week at The Masters and I’ve decided to GIVE IT AWAY to one lucky follower!

To be in the running, simply:

⛳️ Follow me AND @AGTGolfBooks
⛳️ Repost this post

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#TheMasters
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[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats.

And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

🏀On March 30, 1987, CBS Sports debuted ‘One Shining Moment’ during the closing highlight montage of its broadcast of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game, in which Indiana defeated Syracuse 74–73

[Adams @Adams_Tech_AI]

Tesla’s new range extender.

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Old home movies reveal a 1951 honeymoon inside the mansion Swift made famous, capturing a young couple's joy long before it became a pop-culture landmark. https://t.co/GdbHkp6YcI

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Sometimes you meet trees that undoubtedly must shake themselves, stretch their branches and move around the woods at night. This old beech has roots like tentacles, swarming across the mossy rocks, not to tether it to the earth but to propel it around when my back is turned.

[Ken Cable @drkencable]

RT @adamcifu: This is going to very important.

https://t.co/6S3CMHWkya

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Curt Cignetti will soon sign a new contract with Indiana that pays him at least $12.5 million per year.

But after digging into the numbers, Cignetti might still be the most undervalued coach in college football (and not for the reason you might think).

We all know what Cignetti has done at IU is remarkable — he turned a perennial cellar-dweller into the national championship favorite just two years after his arrival.

This has transformed IU's athletic department:

• Before the 2025 season even kicked off, ticket revenue for IU's football team had surpassed $13 million.

• Indiana announced a $50 million stadium naming rights deal with Merchants Bank.

• Fundraising has hit a record high, with billionaire IU alum Mark Cuban donating to the athletic department for the first time ever.

But that's the obvious stuff; Cignetti's real impact comes in the admissions office.

IU's football team is essentially a marketing vehicle for the university — 24 million people watched them win the Rose Bowl, 18 million watched them win the Big Ten Championship, and when College Gameday visited Indiana's campus last year, more than 2 million people watched a 3-hour commercial about the school.

This publicity is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is having a real impact on Indiana's finances.

In 2025 alone, Indiana University set school records for total enrollment (48,626 students), freshman class size (10,127 students), first-year out-of-state students (4,697), and application volume (73,400).

Indiana University Applicants
• 2019-20: 44,178
• 2020-21: 46,623
• 2021-22: 50,159
• 2022-23: 54,345
• 2023-24: 67,731
• 2024-25: 73,400

But since IU can only admit so many students each year, they leverage the additional demand to 1) rotate the composition of their student body toward out-of-state students, and 2) become more selective academically.

Out-of-state students now account for about 50% of IU's total enrollment, with the school admitting a total of 4,697 new out-of-state students in 2025 — roughly 500 more out-of-state students than IU's previous record.

This is an important distinction because out-of-state students pay $30,000 more in annual tuition – $12,000 for Indiana residents versus $42,000 for non-residents.

500 new out-of-state students
x $30,000 tuition difference
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= $15 million annually

If you multiply that by a four-year degree, these out-of-state students are worth $60 million more to IU than their in-state counterparts.

And since football success attracts more applicants, IU's admissions office can be more selective.

Indiana's Fall 2025 class had a median high school GPA of 3.94 — the highest in IU admissions history.

This creates a virtuous cycle.

Better sports → more applicants → better students → higher rankings. Higher rankings then lead to even more applicants, and, eventually, higher tuition revenues.

This is exactly what happened at Alabama with Nick Saban, and it's a big reason why Indiana is completely comfortable giving Cignetti new contracts every year.

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[Ken Cable @drkencable]

@tommolog @LucidMotors @stateofcharge Tempe to the beach without charging!