La Mont Carroll

Leader of Team Splurge. Father of Zack, Derek, Kendrick, Legend, Landon and LaMonica. Stay blessed. They want to see me fall.

[@XTexasGirlX @XtexasgirlX]

TRUST BROKEN.

A 37-year-old youth softball coach in Magnolia, Texas just got arrested. Nathan Scott Velez allegedly spent weeks chatting online with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl. He asked for nudes, talked sex acts, and tried to set up a meet. It was a detective the whole time.

He coaches little girls in Montgomery County. He works as a lineman for a tech company. Now he faces a third-degree felony, two to ten years, and up to ten grand in fines.

Here is the honest cut: We hand our kids over to coaches, teachers, and mentors every season and pray they are safe. Then we see cases like this and realize too many predators hide right in plain sight in trusted roles.

Parents sign them up for softball to build confidence and stay active, not to worry about the man running practice. Law enforcement did their job with this sting. Good. But one arrest does not fix the bigger pattern.

We need real vetting, real consequences, and communities that stop looking the other way when something feels off.

What does it say about our priorities when kids are not shielded first?

Video Credit: Office of Constable Alan Rosen FB

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

The Chicago Bulls put together a beautiful video tribute remembering Stacey King.🏀🎙️❤️

[Illinois Sports Updates @Sports4Illinois]

Quinton Kitt has announced he will transfer from East Peoria to Monarch Academy! @QuintonKitt @MonarchHoopsKC

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

WATCH: Man Pulled From Rubble After Tornado Destroys Home in Streator, Illinois.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

The gag order lifted. And the mask came off with it.

After sentencing, Austin Metcalf’s father Jeff Metcalf went live on TikTok and was caught on a racist rant about Karmelo Anthony, including calling him a “watermelon felon,” saying Black people get “all the free sh*t we give you,” claiming “400 years ago someone sold you to us,” and attacking Black fathers for not being involved in their children’s lives.

This is the same man who stood in that courtroom and said “this was never about race.”

The prosecution struck every qualified Black juror from the panel. A gag order silenced public response for nearly a year. And the moment the muzzle came off, this is who he showed us he was.

Karmelo Anthony did not get a fair trial. And now the victim’s own father has confirmed in his own words what this community has known from the beginning.

🎥: @SamsonCrouppen

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 NEW: 97 pardoned Jan. 6 rioters have already been returned to prison for new crimes.

[Rob Markman 💭 @RobMarkman]

MJ had the Flu Game, Knicks got the Wu Game

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

The start of the comeback

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

This play will be replayed for years.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Center Aaron Brewer and the Miami Dolphins reached agreement today on a 3-year, $52.5 million extension that includes $37 million guaranteed. The deal makes Brewer one of the highest-paid centers in the league in a deal done by Kyle McCarthy of Athletes First.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Eagles signed former Bills DE A.J. Epenesa.

Epenesa originally was Buffalo’s 2020 second-round pick. He planned to sign with the Browns in March, but didn’t pass his physical. Now he lands in Philadelphia.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Record deal: The Chiefs are adding two years to Patrick Mahomes’ contract, tying him to Kansas City through the 2033 season at a value of $504.75 million, making it the first NFL deal valued at over a half-billion dollars, per @RapSheet and me.

Equity Sports CEO Chris Cabott, and Chiefs GM Brett Veach and his staff, put the finishing touches on the landmark agreement today.

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

A few weeks ago, Stephen A. Smith said he wished all Black People would vote Republican for one election. Well…….today Donald Trump said this about him smh

[. @wydlamar]

Comedian HaHa Davis had Shannon Sharpe in tears narrating how he let another man sleep with his wife while he watched saying he almost called the police on him 😭🥀

“I almost called the police, I thought he was an intruder, had me curled up in the bed for days”

“You know how it feel when you find out someone sleep with your girl in high school, you mean to tell me you still wanted to watch”

“I thought when I was a man now I could accept things differently”

[Sam Amick @sam_amick]

Glad I got here early… 😳

Wu-Tang Clan rehearsal for tonight’s MSG halftime show. 🔥🔥

More here, on the Game 4 Finals live blog, at @TheAthletic

https://t.co/xZZqJW9nNz

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar.

He was the first black animator at Disney and had a 65-year run at the studio working on films such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story 2’.

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

[The Menace 🥷 @charlestonwhyt]

Charleston White walks off stream after Adin Ross asks his wife if she sucks d*ck😳

“N*gga did you really ask my wife that”

[TMZ @TMZ]

The knife Karmelo Anthony allegedly used to fatally stab Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet wasn't illegal under Texas law, detective says.

Details: https://t.co/yJ1BXK5Z42