February 28, 2013

GREAT START

Thanks to all the Walker businesses who have come on board in sponsoring our upcoming Walker HS Baseball radio broadcasts on 1210AM and JonFineProductions.com

I’ll be in Walker the next week to see if we can drum up more interest

And, then!… Watson businesses, beware! I’ll be pestering you in the next couple of weeks

We’ll have 4 regular season Walker HS Baseball games, 4 Live Oak HS Baseball games and all playoff games on 1210AM and JonFineProductions.com

First broadcast is 3/29, when Walker travels to Albany

All Live Oak HS games will also be on 1210AM and JonFineProductions.com.

GOOD TO THE BONE

Last night’s Looking Forward with Brockwell Bone on THE CENTRAL STORY featured Chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party Roger Villere.

Next week, Brockwell will be joined on Wednesday night (on Looking Forward at Zoe’s Pizza Buffet --1550AM, Jon Fine Productions.com, 5:30pm—6:30pm) by the just named (by me) Chairman of the Central Aerobics Party, Roxanne Atkinson, from Aerobics by Roxanne and Austin McGraw, a personal trainer at Snap Fitness.

BROADCASTING SCHEDULE:

MONDAY—FRIDAY: 5:30PM—6:30PM THE CENTRAL STORY JonFineProductions.com

WPFC, 1550AM, BR

JonFineProductions.com

Thursday, Feb 28: The Steve Johnson Show (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet)

Steve Johnson

Friday, March 1: KandiLand (from Romero’s Food Mart—Joor & Lovett location)

Kandi Jones

Monday, March 4: As For Me and My House (from The Jambalaya Bistro)

Steve Johnson

Tuesday, March 5: The Central Business Report (from The Jambalaya Bistro) Matt Price

Wednesday, March 6: Looking Forward (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet)

Brockwell Bone

SportsRadio—1310-KEZM-Lake Charles Programming of Interest

Monday, March 4: 3PM—5PM: Bayou Blitz with Alex Hickey and Miguel Gauthreaux

5k Run / 1 mile fun run walk on April 13th in Gonzales. The event details:

BEST in BLUE Contest

Sponsorship levels are $100 and $250

Discounts for early registration through March 29th

Run as an individual or as a Team

1 Mile Run/Walk and 5k Race

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gonzales City Hall, Gonzales, LA

BEST in BLUE Contest

Sponsorship levels are $100 and $250

Discounts for early registration through March 29th

WE THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR UTMOST TO PATRONIZE SPONSORS OF OUR PROGRAMMING. THIS HELPS US TREMENDOUSLY IN SUSTAINING OUR WEEKLY LINE-UP AND WILL ASSIST US IN ADDING MORE PROGRAMS IN THE FUTURE. KINDLY MAKE AN EFFORT TO LET SPONSORS KNOW YOU HEARD THEIR BUSINESS MENTIONED ON OUR BROADCAST(S).

THE WIZARDRY OF OS

Assistant Basketball Coach/Head Swimming Coach at Central High School

There are many hot topics of conversation this week. The NFL Draft combine, Tom Brady taking a contract extension below his market value, LSU baseball looking for a third starter, and the LSU basketball team continues to impress. I’ll just dabble in each topic.

What the draft combine does not show is how each athlete’s skills fit in a particular system or the maturity level of that player to handle being a professional. Consequently, the whole show that is now presented on the NFL Network is very “un-newsworthy” but it does make for good TV in a nation still mourning the end of the football season.

As for Tom Brady, he is well within his rights to take a contract extension for half his worth, and the Patriots are the benefactor of his decision. As a Saints fan I am jealous, but the good fortune of the Patriots is where this story ends for me.

In general, a team maximizes its potential when the most talented players perform at a high level. Consequently, the LSU baseball team would be best served for Cody Glenn to continue to develop and take the role as the 3rd starter. That would allow Bonvillan to return to the bullpen for long relief and be available as a 4th starter.

I don’t think I have been in a stranger situation than trying to follow the LSU basketball game against Alabama from my iPad. In a position where I was not able to watch on TV or listen on the radio (I did DVR it though), I closed the iPad in frustration with LSU down 69-61 and two minutes to go. When I hadn’t received a final score notification within the next 10 minutes, I checked again and saw the game was somehow in overtime. Disappointment once again set in when I saw LSU lose at the buzzer, and the final score notification jumped on the screen.

ESPN Gamecast was not giving me details quickly, so I checked “the rant” to find out what happened. At that point I discovered that the game was not over! I followed the next two overtimes on “the rant” since ESPN held firm that the game was in fact over.

When I got home and watched most of the rest of the game (I only set the DVR for 30 minutes over), I enjoyed watching LSU beat Alabama to most of the loose balls and outhustle the Tide on the offensive glass.

Growing up, I was able to develop boat loads of wonderful LSU basketball memories like the Georgetown game in the dome, the first time Chris Jackson scored over 50, the Loyola Marymount game, and on and on. I had numerous students this week come tell me they were at the Bama game. This year they are finding out that LSU basketball can be just as fun and create amazing memories just like LSU football and baseball.

HEY REF

I’m releasing a “Best of Hey Ref” this week so those that missed it the first time can read what I wrote back then (3/8/12) and that I stand by everything included with this article. Head Coach Sean Payton is back; fines and suspensions have been paid and served. One very positive thing that I can say came out of this horror story is the fact New Orleans has a “STANDUP” guy in their head coach. He stated “As the Head Coach I TAKE FULL RESPOSIBILITTY FOR WHAT HAPPENED”!

Coach Payton acted like a man throughout the lies and accusations tossed about and around. He didn’t dodge the issues confronting him, he didn’t do like ex-President Ronald Reagan and try to wiggle out of the blame for what he and his administration did. No, in fact we need more men like Coach Peyton in PUBLIC OFFICE, a man that didn’t run from the truth but confronted it head-on and accepted blame where blame was due.

So, my readers enjoy, don’t try and say I wrote this or that, no; read it again, MY WORDS are all I have to share… …

Seems the sporting world is in SHOCK upon learning of the “HIT” list and bounties being paid to New Orleans Saints players over the last two years. I wrote in this space back then that Brett Favre had taken way too many hits during their championship game in the Superdome.

Not only had he taken these hits but he was taking far too many of them and not a single penalty was called. I said it then and I’ll say it again “something wasn’t right”. I’d seen the NFL go way beyond expectations to make new rules to protect quarterbacks. One notable quote was that these special players “should wear dresses”.

I questioned then why the referee wasn’t calling these hits. This was the championship game with the winner going to the Super Bowl and you’d think with all the added attention given the game that the officials would be watching even closer to what players were doing. Yet, time after time Mr. White Hat turned a blind eye.

On todays’ Dan Patrick Show (3/7/12) he reported that the referee apologized to Favre many times during and after the game for not making the calls. He’s since denied saying anything to Favre yet Favre himself is the one who told NFL officials about those apologies. Then Vikings coach Brad Childress after the game picked out eight plays that he claimed showed “something was up. These guys were doing something different”.

After the league viewed all of these plays they could only say ONE was out of the ordinary and warranted further review but nothing more came out of it. Sport’s Illustrated writer Peter King reported and wrote this week that NFL officials have uncovered microphone recordings made during and right after the game a Saint’s player yelling “now pay me my money”. This came immediately after Favre was the victim of a “high ‘n low” shot that took him out of the game.

The player is thought to be Darren Sharper who wanted a reported $1,500.00 bounty for being in on the hit. Bret Favre after taking an exceptionally hard hit during the game asked players “Just what’s going on? What are y’all trying to do”? He knew what was up, that they were trying to get him out of the game, but what he wasn’t aware of was the TEAM HAD GIVEN IT’S BLESSING!

The investigation is far from over. Heads will roll over this and some will be banned for life from the league as they should be. But what really has me shaking my head is that everyone involved is treating this as something new, never before discovered. Now that’s unbelievable. Not long ago former Chicago Bear’s defensive coach Buddy Ryan boasted about having a weekly bounty list.

I won’t make any new fans and I’ll probably be the most hated person in the state for saying this but IF the commissioner was serious about penalizing the Saints for this he’d strip them of their Super Bowl victory. The penalty has to be of the most severe you can think of. There is no more severe penalty than to take away the tittle they surely don’t deserve in light of how low they stooped to accomplish winning.

Football is a violent sport, there’s no doubting this. But what the sport doesn’t need is the practice of deliberately going out to not just hurt someone but to injure that player. I saw this firsthand in a high school game I officiated back in the 80’s. It’s been engraved in my memory because I was horrified when I witnessed the player being hauled away in an ambulance.

The play goes something like this: a defensive player kept running his mouth how he’d F somebody up if they ran his way. Well, after telling him for over a quarter to shut up an opposing player came over to me and whispered in my ear “Hey, Ref, I F*CKED him up”! I was taken back for a minute and then I started running the previous play in my head.

This defensive player was following a play to the opposite sideline and that play ended out of bounds. So while the players were standing around and getting untangled this kid hit the defensive player from the side at knee height and tore his knee up so bad that he couldn’t walk. In fact it took almost fifteen minutes to get him medical attention and then taken to the hospital.

To this day I’m just appalled at this type of accepted play. I asked the kid where he learned to hit like that and he smiled then said “We practice it all the time. Our coaches teach us how to get people out of the game”. So, if this style of play is on the high school level and it’s been there for some twenty years, you can be assured it happens almost every game no matter the level, conference or league, amateur or pro!!

It’s sad to know this is going on in the NFL but in today’s world it seems everything is played to the death. But we must remember “IT’S ONLY A GAME” When a player is taken out of the game not only does the game suffer but so do the fans that have paid money to see these athletes perform. Sad, just plain SAD!!!

Til next week… …

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