Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End (Fish's Tales?):
*A note from Rangers Ballpark: LeBron James fell out of the upper deck while reaching for more attention.
*If police have this right, the mayor of Coppell leaves notes scattered about her home with specific instructions on how to care for her dogs. Then she murders her 19-year-old daughter. Then, finally, Mayor Jayne Peters turns her gun on herself.
*Mark Followill on The Ticket with a nice Rangers nugget going into the second half: Of the eight American League teams over .500, Texas' schedule is loaded with the most road games (43) and the second-most games against opponents with winning records (41).
*Hot. This is where Richie habitually links to a photo of a girl who X90's all day, exercises around a pole all night, and wears her hair in a way that intentionally mixes her "blonde'' hair with black tips. (That hairstyle, by the way, is the sure sign of a young woman who had an absentee or abusive father.) Big boobs, bad Botox and beer bongs ... you get that in this space again next week.
*Not. This is where Richie habitually links to a photo of a big lady wearing little clothes. (The women's fashion equivalent to the old circus routine featuring all those clowns fitting into that tiny car.) We don't need a photo; we've got the real thing at Wal-Mart, where it appears to me that the floppy and sloppy over-stretched spandexed ladies spend a lot of time in the bra department without every actually buying one.
*Jerry Jones says he likes the "direction" of Cowboys kicker David Buehler.
Yeah ... as long as that "direction'' is no wider than 18 feet, 6 inches.
*Let's go to The Sports Guy, and let Bill Simmons' tweet sink in.
*I still think that when cops Tasered that Phillies fan, it should've been immediately installed as standard-operating procedure in Philadelphia, especially for Eagles followers. Taser 'em all. And don't wait until they run onto the field. Taser 'em all NOW. Before they soon even come through the gates. "Preemptive Tasering.''
*The entertaining journalists on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption'' debated the other day about whether LeBron would win "six titles'' or "seven titles.'' (Entertainment!) The math hardly adds up - and that doesn't even count the coming lockout.
*Whitt's Weekly Religion Rant: Let's not bother. If God reads the Dallas Observer (and He is everywhere, including on the AAC's Victory Plaza, where He is pretty much all by His lonesome), God probably gets pretty stuck at Dan Savage and doesn't worry Himself to much about our little R.W.
*In Miami, the players did a lot of this themselves, Wade handling the recruiting of Bosh and LeBron. (Dating back to meetings in 2006? Hmmm. ...)
*Words of Widsom from Shawn Marion's Twitter account:
OK, comment-makers: Have at it.
*Stephen A. Smith mentions one sportswriter in the same breath in which he mentions Denzel and Will Smith.
*Speaking volumes: LeBron has a new Twitter account. There are 420,494 people who follow him. How many people did LeBron follow in his first week of social networking? Tellingly ... zero.