April 11, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
Three area high school games will be broadcast this week, as a Jon Fine Production, on Comedy, 1210, Baton Rouge and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com.
Live Oak HS will be playing host to Zachary HS (Thursday, 4/11, 6pm) and Central HS (Saturday, 4/13, 5:45pm). Walker HS will visit Live Oak HS (Tuesday, 4/16, 6pm).—The Walker game at Live Oak will be presented as a Walker broadcast.
The Triton Health Care Physical Therapy Clinic Pre-Game Shows will include interviews with Live Oak HS Head Baseball coach Greg Briggs and Walker HS Head Baseball coach Randy Sandifer.
2nd inning interview features include Charla Thames and Brittany Powell with Annison-Bitter Heating & Air Conditioning (4/11 game), Cheryl Jeane, PT, Triton Health Care Physical Therapy Clinic (4/13 game) and Michael Sharp, GM, Stine (4/16 game)
The Annison-Bitter Heating & Air Conditioning Cool Down programs will feature interviews with Briggs and Sandifer.
Robbie Harrison (Live Oak), Chris Ledoux (Walker) and Jim McChristian (Denham Springs) will usually have updates in the pre and postgame shows.
For more information on Live Oak HS and Walker HS Baseball radio broadcasts, please visit JonFineProductions.com.
THE CENTRAL STORY
Tonight’s The Steve Johnson Show on THE CENTRAL STORY will feature LSU all-American Basketball player Frank Brian. The program is broadcast live from Zoe’s Pizza Den
Monday night, it’s Destined To Win on THE CENTRAL STORY, with Steve Johnson and Pastor Rocky Bezet of The Rock Church, broadcasting live from Jambalaya Bistro
This Tuesday night’s The Central Business Report with Matt Price on THE CENTRAL STORY is slated to include the following guests: Cheryl Jeane, Triton Health Care Physical Therapy
Dr. David Balhoff, Sherman-Balhoff Orthodontics… and Debbie Daugherty, Junk In The Trunk. The Central Business Report is broadcast live from The Jambalaya Bistro
All programs can be heard on THE CENTRAL STORY (Mondays—Fridays, 5:30pm—6:30pm, on WPFC, 1550AM, Baton Rouge and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com.)
BROADCASTING SCHEDULE:
Thursday, April 11: 5:45 pm: Live Oak HS vs Zachary HS Baseball
Comedy 1210, Baton Rouge
JonFineProductions.com
Jon Fine, Robbie Harrison (reports from Chris Ledoux—Walker HS, Jim McChristian--Denham Springs HS)
Saturday, April 13: 5:45 pm: Live Oak HS vs Central HS Baseball
Comedy, 1210, Baton Rouge
JonFineProductions.com
Jon Fine, Robbie Harrison (reports from Chris Ledoux—Walker HS, Jim McChristian—Denham Springs HS)
Tuesday, April 16: 6:00 pm: Walker HS at Live Oak HS Baseball
Comedy, 1210, Baton Rouge
JonFineProductions.com
Jon Fine, Chris Ledoux (reports from Robbie Harrison—Live Oak HS, Jim McChristian—Denham Springs HS). This will be a Walker HS Broadcast.
MONDAY—FRIDAY: 5:30PM—6:30PM THE CENTRAL STORY JonFineProductions.com
WPFC, 1550AM, BR
JonFineProductions.com
Thursday, April 11: The Steve Johnson Show (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet)
Steve Johnson
Friday, April 12: KandiLand: Kandi Johnson and Friends (TJ Johnson, Aaron Moak and Philip Ziegler)
Monday, April 15: Destined To Win (from The Jambalaya Bistro)
Steve Johnson and Pastor Rocky Bezet, Pastor, The Rock Church
Tuesday, April 16: The Central Business Report (from The Jambalaya Bistro) Matt Price
Wednesday, April 17: Looking Forward (from Zoe’s Pizza Buffet)
Brockwell Bone
SportsRadio—1310-KEZM-Lake Charles Programming of Interest
Monday, April 15: 3PM—5PM: Bayou Blitz with Alex Hickey and Miguel Gauthreaux
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
Assistant Basketball Coach/Head Swimming Coach at Central High School
Did you see that National Championship game?! Holy smokes! Those two teams were getting after each other. Don’t let anyone talk you out of feeling great about what you saw.
There will be those talking about mistakes, officiating, coaching moves, just to name a few things. If you are emotionally invested in those teams then talk about those things. Otherwise, just savor a great championship game.
The number one element for a great championship game is that both teams play well. As a result, one of the teams WINS the game. The shot making in the game was incredible. Mistakes were at a minimum, and usually forced.
The competitiveness and effort was high and consistent. I thought it helped that both coaches were willing to substitute early and often.
As I have thought about other college championship games to compare, I think back to Duke versus Connecticut back in 1999. Duke had Maggette, Brand, and Battier while UConn had El-Amin and Hamilton. If you don't remember that game you can watch it on YouTube. The guards were not as fast as Siva, Smith, and Burke, but the tempo was similar and the guard play was what led both teams. I find great guard play makes basketball entertaining to watch.
Meanwhile, LSU basketball is looking like a NCAA tournament team next year. It is amazing to think about last year at this time and how quickly fortunes have turned around.
For those that forget, realize that a year ago LSU had lost their coach as players were jumping ship like it was The Titanic. There was a real danger that all five starters would leave and recruiting was in the tank. A year later, LSU has a top 10 recruiting class and it keeping all of the players eligible to return. As icing on the cake, LSU plays an exciting style of basketball.
I couldn't end this article without mentioning the LSU baseball team. I keep thinking they can't keep playing this well, and then they play better. This weekend is an example of the true test of the SEC. Coming off a dominating sweep at home against a top 10 opponent, the Tigers will surely be tested again at Arkansas who was preseason #1. The Hogs got off to a slow start, but their pitching has come around. This is the type of series that will prepare LSU for the post season.
I see the series playing out very much like the Mississippi State series. Nola and Eades need to match Arkansas' starters, the offense needs to generate 4-5 runs each game, and the bullpen has to be great to win the series.
HEY REF
As I wrote last week, I use the crowning of a new NCAA Basketball Champion as a wakeup call to get my football rulebook out and begin getting ready for the upcoming season. Have been doing it this way for more than 20 years. Unlike coaches and/or players the officials have zero time to be in mid-season from.
No, we must be at the top of our game starting from the first scrimmages, spring games and then the jamborees. A word to the Baton Rouge Football Officials Association: this year we start all over with a new assignment secretary; John Langlois. He’s a former B. R. high school official that now works in the SEC.
Some have already judged him and don’t seem to be open to the fact that he’s been hired to do one thing and that is to get our association back to the top! It will take everyone’s best efforts to achieve this and I hope all members will give him a chance to make them a better official. He’ll only be successful if each of us gives him and the coaches 150% effort.
It’ll be a tough job knowing what I know from “being there” last year after a layoff of more than 10 years. The association has changed and I’m sad to say it’s not for the better. A totally new attitude must be adopted and then practiced not only in the classroom but also on the field.
I hope I’ve got your attention so I can now get to the thing that I believe is harming many games and the behavior of many of the very athletes; the parents, fans and family members in the stands. I’m not about to single anyone out but if you “see” yourself then please try and fix the problem BEFORE the next game!!
When so many people are scratching their heads trying to figure out why their children’s behavior has hit rock bottom all they need to do is look in the mirror. Parent’s behavior at games, I should say at EVERY game leaves me to wonder how these people go through life away from the football field. We’re entering the final week of high school football and for some it must seem like the end of the world.
I remember a thing called Sportsmanship that thing fewer and fewer adults are bringing with them to the football games in and around Baton Rouge. I remember the pure disgust that would stir inside my stomach when I was calling little league baseball. Now it seems it has morphed itself to include the high school football games.
Why do we have anything except varsity games? I’m one of the few that accepts the need for Jr. High and Jr. Varsity games as the place where an athlete will learn his skills before walking onto the varsity field. But after being away from working high school games for twelve years I knew things would be a little different. Like players getting bigger and faster.
But the real change has come among those sitting in the stands watching games. It seems to me that many of those fans don’t have lives. Each game feels like going to an execution. In that I mean those on the losing side wouldn’t have anything to live for once the game was “in the books” so to speak. Sub varsity games are supposed to be where an athlete would begin to learn the game from the inside.
But what seems to be happening is the parents believe this 9th grade game tonight is all that’s left in this world. Parents, when officials try to help these young athletes how to line up and stay set before the snap it isn’t meant to help the other team beat your team. We strive to help youngsters when we can so that we don’t spend the majority of the game walking five yards this way then five yards the other.
And YES we can call holding on every play, hands down. But how many parents want the officials to do this? The only ones that do are the parents of the team with the ball. I wonder how many parents are living their lives through their child’s life. Well, all I can think it’s more than 90% just by their behavior during the games. Of course “little Johnny” never holds he always plays by the rules. It has to be the OTHER guys that are holding.
If you’ve never heard the term “PREVENTATIVE” officiating let me educate you. A simple example is when one player’s head is in the neutral zone we as officials will tell the player between plays to back up or get back depending on what side of the ball they’re on. One coach will thank you for not calling the foul on his team but as soon as the other team has the ball he goes ballistic if you tell the other team to back up a bit.
If I had my way each and every parent would spend an entire year working football games for nothing. This way they might actually learn the rules. There are so many experts sitting in the stands that I feel you are hurting the game by staying home or sitting in the stands trying to tell everyone the rules and how the officials on the field really don’t know what they are doing.
So, please do the game a great service, get off your asses and try to call a few games and we’ll see just how much you really don’t know! I’m not about to let the officials off the hook by no means. I spent nearly 20 years calling football in this area before a bad injury caused me to “retire”. Well, I’ve tried to return to the field but what I’ve found is scaring me to the core.
The quality of the officials calling games has drastically declined. So many of the best that have put on the striped shirt have left the game entirely. And I feel it’s due to the lack of respect given them by parents, coaches and the media. For whatever reason the games are suffering because so many good officials have hung up their whistles and aren’t returning year after year.
So, I’ll close by asking all the great officials instead of sitting in the stands please put on the uniform and help the sport you know so much about by getting involved and start at your earliest convenience and start calling real games and not those video games on your TV!!!
Till next week… …
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