RETURN OF THE ROCK: Following the brilliant "Bring the Pain" in 1996 and "Bigger and Blacker" in 1999, Chris Rock will return this April with a third stand-up comedy special on HBO. Can't f'n wait.
SOMETHING HE'LL CERTAINLY TALK ABOUT: Baseball historians are currently investigating the possibility that William White, who appeared in one game for the Providence Greys in 1879, was in fact the first African-American major league baseball player. A handful of black players are known to have played the game in the nineteenth century, prior to a color line being established that remained unbroken until the debut of Jackie Robinson in 1947.
Ironic, if the first black major leaguer was a guy named "White." Sort of like the black comic Steve White, who used to joke that his middle name should've been "Ain't."