Dexter Batts Jr

Father 1st. Coach 2nd🙏🏽... Easy Street Family (ESF) #TheTakeoff 🚀🚀#TMC 🏁🏁💙🕊.. IG: Coach_Dex28

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

Damn @DK_Assist @DKSports 😫

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

@Kaepernick7 is a Legend!

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

So Jaxson Dart gets to publicly express his political beliefs, but Abdul Carter doesn’t? If this is about locker room sanctity and leadership, is it a good idea for the face of the franchise to attend a political rally for a president that is considered to be hugely divisive?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

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[Oluwajomiloju @JomiAdeniran]

Watching your girl dispute a room charge with the front desk

[Walter Hawthorne @whawthorne]

God is great!! first and foremost!!! Words can’t explain how I feel right now. Just a proud father that is proud of you both! What God has for you is for you and NO ONE can take that away from you! Keep working hard and continue striving for greatness! @BraydonH20 @zyonx0

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

This is so tuff!!! 🚀🚀🚀

[UK Sports Network @UKSportsNetwork]

Zyon Hawthorne (@zyonx0) is a Cat. He joins his brother, Braydon, on the @KentuckyMBB 2026-2027 roster.

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

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[Braydon Hawthorne @BraydonH20]

Old files 🛏️

[South Carolina Women's Basketball @GamecockWBB]

The mission is unchanged – let's grow our game 🫡

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

@jeffborzello @__CoachCorey 🚀🚀🚀

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

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[The Voice of Morgantown @voicemorgantown]

JUST IN: Local star makes a lot of sense for Ross Hodge and #WVU! LINK: https://t.co/4OlIRo2hUf

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

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[ESPN @espn]

Geno Auriemma's statement following his exchange with Dawn Staley at the end of UConn’s loss to South Carolina.

[SportsCenter NEXT @SCNext]

GAME-WINNING DUNK 😲

Montverde takes down Prolific Prep to secure a spot in the #ChipotleNationals semifinal 🚨

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

@ochocinco 😂😂😂😂

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

@TapXMikey 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Aaron Torres @Aaron_Torres]

Nolan Smith didn't get the Tennessee State job until July of last summer.

After winning the regular season, they just won the Ohio Valley title and an auto bid to the NCAA Tournament.

As good of a coaching job as ANYONE in college hoops.

Congrats @TSUTigersMBB

[Dexter Batts Jr @Coach_Dex28]

My goodness Mike Mike!! Certified Bump!!

[Mikey. @TapXMikey]

Rick was really floating this night, legendary Thai night me and @Coach_Dex28 was really lit that night