WHITT'S END: 12.11.13

      Whether you're at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt's End:

   *Source of mine in Austin texted me on November 12. He's tight with a state congressman who's on Texas' Board of Regents, and his message was that Mack Brown was done as head coach of the Longhorns. The decision had been made. He was right. And so have been all the rumors we've been hearing for a month.

   *Now the source tells me that at the top of Texas' coaching wish list are ...

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Walk-Off Homer. Walk-Off Homer. Walk-Off Homer.

   So I spend a day at 14,000 feet and all Hell breaks loose?
   *The Mavs finally sign Devin Harris.
   *A-Rod's cutting deals and might be banned for life from baseball (and Nelson Cruz better be nervous),
   *The Eagles' Riley Cooper plays racist hillbilly at a Kenny Chesney concert.
   *And - with an exclamation point - the Rangers sure made us forget about that woeful weekend in Cleveland, huh?
   Back-to-back-to-back ... history.
   Monday: Geovany Soto.
   Tuesday: Leonys Martin.
   Wednesday: Adrian Beltre.
   Nothing to cure the Rangers' offense like a heaping dose of Angels' bullpen. When the Rangers returned from Cleveland they were in an epic offensive slump. Four days later they're basking in the glow of a sweep of Anaheim and the unprecedented feat of three consecutive walk-off wins via homer.
   The Rangers had never pulled off the Triple Taps, and no team in baseball had done it since the Tigers in 2004. Just like that - even without a deal at the trade deadline and with Cruz' suspension looming - the Rangers are within four games of Oakland and the baseball season in Arlington is officially resuscitated.
   Delicious reminder: That the way baseball go.