Real fast, someone blow the dust of Hotter Than July and sing Happy Birthday to Frederick J. Batiste, frequent commenter on these comments pages, and also one of my best friends and esteemed colleagues (and those last two points stand independent of one another). In celebration, I invite you to check this piece he recently did on the ten best members of the HBCU diaspora currently playing in the NFL. Fred did not attend the Shameless School of Self-Promotion with me, so I’ll pass on much of what being shameless taught me and give him some pub right here.
Full update coming later this week.