September 19, 2013
ON THE AIR!: Denham Springs HS Football radio broadcasts
Plaquemine HS Football radio broadcasts
St. John HS Football radio broadcasts
PRESS RELEASE
THE DRU NETTLES SHOW
Standout Senior Linebacker Garrett Osborne will be amongst the guests on The Dru Nettles Show this Thursday night (6pm-7pm, Cox 4 Television, Baton Rouge… with replays Friday at 10:30am and Saturday at 12:30pm). Osborne has been one of the defensive leaders of the Jackets and was in on several big plays in the Jackets victory over Salmen HS last Friday night.
One time Jackets star player Mitch Covington will be interviewed on the program. Covington is the Jackets Wide Receivers and Special Teams coach.
Denham Springs HS State Championship winning Softball coach Robbie Spangler will grace the program with her presence. Spangler is also a past president of The Denham Springs Athletic Association.
The Academic Segment will feature Josie Bonnette, the DSHS Senior Class President.
The Sponsor of The Week is Northside Family Pharmacy’s Gary Maples.
Highlights of the Denham Springs-- Salmen game will be shown.
The Dru Nettles Show is co-hosted by DSHS Athletic Director/Head Football Coach Dru Nettles and long-time Jackets play-by-play announcer Jon Fine. The program is a Jon Fine Production. For more information, please visit JonFineProductions.com or Like TheDruNettlesShow on Facebook.
“What Up Muff”? Critically acclaimed columnist/sportswriter Sam Muffoleto of The Livingston Parish News will be a half-time guest on this Friday night’s Denham Springs HS—Catholic HS broadcast (Air time of 6pm on Comedy, 1210 and on the Net at JonFineProductions.com.) David Latona of DEMCO, celebrating its 75th anniversary, will be on Sport N Center Jackets Warm-Up.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT, WE HOPE
Tonight’s The Central Sports & Business Report should mark the return of Matt Price. We are listing him as Probable and hope he returns to the airwaves tonight
Steve Johnson and (prospectively) Matt will be broadcasting live from Me’ Pa’s Diner in Central. Guests are slated to be CHS Special Teams Coordinator Justin Hutchinson and Senior Football players Malik Odum, Gary Triplett and Jivon Wade. Also appearing will be Kaleb Saucer of Chick-Fil-A.
Monday night on The Central Story, it’s Destined to Win, with Rocky Bezet, Pastor, The Rock Church.
The Central Story airs Monday and Thursday nights, 5:30pm—6:30pm, on WPFC, 1550AM, Baton Rouge and on the Net at JonFineProductions.com.
CAJUN JOKE OF THE WEEK AS HEARD ON THE 9/12 THE CENTRAL STORY
Complements of Larry Boudreaux’s website, CousinBoudreaux.com:
Boudreaux suspects hee wife of cheatin’ on em, so he bought a gun and went to hees house unexpectedly. He opened de door he finds her in de arms of a redhead.
Well, Boudreaux is really angry. He pulls out de gun. He is overcome with grief, takes de gun and puts eet to hees head.
Hees wife yells, "No, honey, don't do eet!!!"
Boudreaux replies, "Shut up, you're next!"
BROADCASTING SCHEDULE:
Thursday, September 19: 5:30pm—6:30pm: The Central Sports & Business Report (on The Central Story)… with Steve Johnson and Matt Price… broadcasting live from Me’ Pa’s Diner in Central
WPFC, 1550AM, BR
Internet: JonFineProductions.com
Thursday, September 19: 6:00pm—7:00pm: The Dru Nettles Show… with Dru Nettles & Jon Fine
Cox 4 Television, Baton Rouge (replays on Friday, September 20, 10:30am—11:30am and Saturday, September 21, 12:30pm—1:30pm)
Friday, September 20: 6:00pm: HS Football: Denham Springs HS at Catholic HS
Jon Fine, Brian Abels, Chris Ledoux
Comedy-1210-Baton Rouge.. JonFineProductions.com
Friday, September 20: 6:00pm: HS Football: Plaquemine HS vs Woodlawn HS
J. B. Barker, Brian “Baco” Romero
WPFC, 1550AM, BatonRouge.. JonFineProductions.com
Monday, September 23: 5:30pm—6:30pm: Destined To Win (on The Central Story)
Pastor Rocky Bezet, Pastor, The Rock Church
WPFC, 1550AM, BR
Internet: JonFineProductions.com
SportsRadio—1310-KEZM-Lake Charles Programming of Interest (also heard on KEZMOnLine.com)
Friday, September 20: 6:40pm: HS Football: Sulphur HS vs. Washington-Marion HS
Bruce Merchant, Clopha Boudreaux
Monday, September 23: 3PM—5PM: Bayou Blitz with Alex Hickey and Miguel Gauthreaux
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Assistant Basketball Coach and Head Swimming Coach at Central High School
I am a little late to voice my opinion on Sports Illustrated's series on Oklahoma State and their rise in prominence, but I haven’t heard anyone making the point I am about to make, so here it goes.
I think the story should have began and ended with T. Boone Pickens. He has donated over 140 million to athletics and over 260 million to OSU academics since 2000. The fact is the Oregon's owes much of its success to Phil Knight and OSU to Pickens. The timeline of both schools success times perfectly with the donations from those individuals and the improvements in facilities. End of story.
Back on the local end, LSU begins conference play this week and it looks like LSU will have to score in the twenties to win games. So far this year's defense has had too many mental lapses, a lack of experience, and has not forced many turnovers. Maybe they turn a corner and step up in SEC play. But after three games, this looks like a Top 30 defense, but not a top 10. The good news is that the offense is capable of picking up the slack. Consequently, for LSU to beat Georgia, Bama, A&M, or Ole Miss the Tigers will have to show they can win some shoot outs.
Fortunately for Saints fans, style points don't matter in the NFL, only wins. The teams that look the best in the beginning are not necessarily the best in the end. Last year the Falcons won a few games at home they had no business winning (like the Oakland game), but they did. Then they started playing better and continued to win.
While I don't want to be concerned about the offense I am. The Saints do not have a power back for short yardage. The strength of the offensive line is the guards, but they are not playing well. In week one Falcons defensive linemen a Jonathan Babineaux whipped Grubbs and Evans as if he was a Hall of Famer. This week wasn't much better. As a matter of fact, the Saints have lost the line of scrimmage in the run game the first two weeks and still won. I don't think that trend can continue.
Speaking of physical play and the Tampa Bay game, I am struck by the number of unnecessary roughness penalties against the Bucs the first two weeks. The league has stepped in and penalized some of the Tampa players. Though, I wonder if anyone else realizes that the Bucs have been called for more of these types of penalties than the Saints ever did while their players were “being rewarded financially.” Which leads me to wonder, have the Tampa Bay coaches found a more effective way to encouraging their players to target opponents? Shouldn't the league investigate a team that appears to have a systematic issue with player safety? Hopefully, you realize my questions are mostly tongue in cheek… mostly.
HEY REF
Football IS a violent game; let’s not try to sugarcoat that fact. A sad thing to report is the untimely death of a 16 year old player from Westfield-Brocton (N. Y.) High School. Running back Damon Janes had just cleared the line of scrimmage when he received a blow to the head. Stunned and dizzy, Janes was able to get up and walk off the field without any assistance but as soon as he got to his sideline he collapsed.
Medical personnel attended to him immediately and he was rushed directly to a local hospital. Trapped in a coma, Janes died Monday. Eyewitnesses at the game confirmed that in the third quarter Janes received the injury in a helmet to helmet collision. The hit has also been reported and confirmed by the local media that were present and saw the hit that it was indeed a helmet to helmet tackle that took the young man’s life. It’s shocking and sad to me to read that but both coaches are trying to deflect the type of hit that’s taken yet another life of a kid so very young.
In the last five or six years the National Federation of High Schools has been cracking down on these types of hits. This year more than ever we as officials will be watched even closer than normal by the L. H. S. A. A. to insure we don’t allow these hits in the games we work here in the Baton Rouge area and in every game played in Louisiana.
In a scrimmage this year that I was working I called a personal foul on a local player for diving directly into a fallen opponent. He slammed the top of his helmet directly into the helmet of the player on the ground hoping, I guess, to inflict a little pain. I also sent him packing and he wasn’t allowed to play another down that day.
But what came next did in fact make me see RED! His coach patted him on the butt and told him “Good hit, don’t mind that flag”. As they ran to the sidelines this coach was slapping him on the helmet and really whooping it up as if to get his team going.
During the next water break I searched for this young assistant coach. When I found him I let him know how displeased he made me for his actions after I “booted” this kid. He comes back at me “Oh, Mr. Ref I just wanted to get the team ready for the next series and keep ‘em fired up”. That answer was the wrong thing to say as in no way should a coach or team use any flagrant hits, ones that can cause serious injury to not only the tackler but to the runner as a way to rally your team.
After the scrimmage was over and we all stopped to get some water the coach seeks me out. He felt bad and wanted to insure me that he’d never teach his kids to use such hits anytime or anywhere. And he definitely didn’t mean for his player to not pay attention to any flag an official might throw on him. He explains “I wanted the guy to not worry about the yardage that the penalty will cost us and to concentrate on the next play”. I respect a coach that’ll admit he’d done wrong just as I hope he’ll return that respect when I do wrong in calling fouls on either team.
I can say will all certainties that not a single coach in this area is teaching his kids to use a helmet as a way to “punish” or to try and hit an opponent in the head. But if there’s just the smallest possibility that there was a helmet to helmet contact or that a player went for the head area we are going to hit that team\player with the most severe penalty that the rules will allow us.
This game we love so much can kill if not properly taught, played or called. I just want to close this week by saying to all the coaches and fans that when you see your team walking backwards for fifteen or more yards because of an illegal hit, don’t “boo” the guys in stripes. Just try and remember the Janes family in western New York. They just buried their son.
After the next game thank the officials when your son is able to come home Friday night with just bumps and bruises. We take the job of officiating very serious and we want every family to go home that night without anything more to worry about than how we are going to get the uniforms clean for next week’s game!
Till next week…
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