September 2, 2022
GOD BLESS UKRAINE AND THE USA!!!!
JACKETS REGULAR SEASON OPENS!
Coach Brett Beard’s Denham Springs Yellow Jackets open up their regular season by going on the road to face Mandeville HS. Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup comes your way at 6:00 pm this evening. Josh Ward and Mitch Covington are on the call. I’ll be contributing to pre-game, half-time and post-game. Tune in to Family Radio, 91.9 FM, Baton Rouge or on the net at JonFineProductions.com.
ESTEEMED GUESTS
I’ll be interviewing Denham Springs HS Baseball coach Trev Hopkins (Coach Hop) on Sport-N-Center Jackets Warmup. Denham Springs HS Football Chaplain Bob Ingalls (Brother Bob) joins me on the A&A Discount Tires Half-Time Report.
A MESSAGE FROM THE GREAT KATHY DEGENERIS
Tickets to the 2022 Denham Springs High School Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet will be sold until the end of the school day, September 20, at the DSHS office. Each ticket is $50. Don’t miss out on this memorable event!
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This NFL offseason has been the biggest tease for Saints fans. First, we had a few days to feel what it would be like to be in a division like the Patriots were for their Dynasty. A division completely lacking quality quarterbacks.
I am sure the Buccaneers would have found a veteran to start instead of Kyle Trask, but that veteran would not have been Tom Brady. The Panthers were about to begin another year with Sam Darnold. Baker Mayfield is better, but at this point is a below average quarterback. Meanwhile, I am refusing to Google the Falcons starting quarterback, but I think it will be Marcus Mariota? While still not a quarterback rich division, the division does have Tom Brady.
The next tease has been at wide receiver. Will Michael Thomas return to being “Can’t guard Mike?” No athlete in modern times, outside of Zion Williamson (another NOLA tease), has been brought back so gradually from an injury. Of course, this receiving core could be decent without him.
Jarvis Landry has been a number 1 receiver. Olave is a supremely talented top 11 pick. Callaway and Harty are a year more experienced. A receiving core with Landry as the #2, Olave #3 option, and Harty/Callaway as the fourth and fifth option should be daunting for any defense. But, can Michael Thomas return to form? How well does the Winston to Thomas chemistry mix?
In reality, the Saints are talented and deep at the skill positions. Maybe not as much at tight end, but Taysom Hill as an almost full time tight end is promising. The offensive line, which had so much promise, has taken a big hit with the injury to #1 pick Trevor Penning. Hurst, Peat, McCoy, Ruiz, and Ramczyk can be very good. But with the history of injury from this group, the promise of the offensive line being a strength could be just a tease.
Meanwhile on defense, the Saints are one of the top defenses by reputation in fantasy football. Much of the preseason hype has been due to a secondary that looked like it had four players that could start at safety. In the last 24 hours, though, the Saints traded one and another has been arrested.
The play of the secondary is always connected to the play of the defensive line. The position that has been brilliant every year since Ryan Nielson arrived in New Orleans despite being injury ravaged year after year. As with all these other positions, we have seen glimpses of greatness from this group. Then injuries set in and it turns into a solid overachieving group, which is certainly better than the alternative.
The final tease has been how little we have seen of any of the players I have written about. On paper, this should be a playoff team that could make a run. The depth of the roster implies a team that can withstand SOME adversity, or is that just a tease?
DENHAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS BACK ON THE AIR!
PRESS RELEASE
The 2022 school year marks the 27th season that Jon Fine (Sports) Productions will have the privilege of producing and calling play-by-play for Denham Springs HS Football radio broadcasts. In 2022, the broadcast slate will include the Jamboree, all 10 regular season Denham games, and every playoff game. Broadcasts can be heard on Family Radio-91.9 FM Baton Rouge. All broadcasts can also be heard on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com (click Listen Live on the Denham Springs Football PBP page). The Jamboree air time is 5:30 pm. Subsequent broadcasts will air at 6:00 pm. The first broadcast is Friday, August 26 when the Jackets visit Walker HS in a Jamboree.
After a one-season sabbatical, Josh Ward returns as the play-by-play announcer of the Jackets. Ward will be joined by Mitch Covington as the color commentator. Producer Jon Fine will contribute to the pre-game, half-time and post-game programming.
“Sport N Center Jackets Warm-Up” will feature an interview with Jackets Football Coach Brett Beard conducted by Josh Ward. Jon Fine will speak with a prominent Denham Springs community and/or sports figure. Ward and Covington will also offer a preview of that night’s game and other pertinent information.
The “A&A Discount Tires Half-Time Report” will include Fine interviewing another Denham Springs personality. In addition, Ward and Covington will provide a recap of the first half and a look ahead at the second half of action.
During the “Ralph Sellers Chevrolet Post-Game Show”, there will be an extensive game recap, final stats and a look ahead.
When Denham Springs picks up a first down, they’ll achieve a Big Mike’s Sports Bar & Grill First Down. When the Jackets score, the scoring drive will be recapped on the Brandy Robertson State Farm Insurance Scoring Drive. The coach Beard interview is being brought to you by SERVPRO of Livingston. When the Jackets have secured a victory, Ward will indicate that the victory is in the bank, brought to you by Bank Plus.
Sport-N-Center owner Stacy Phipps (Baseball) and Big Mike O’Neal (Football) were athletes at Denham Springs HS. Ralph Sellers Chevrolet Parts Manager Jim McChristian, a former Jackets color commentator, says he was an athlete at Denham Springs HS, but we have had a difficult time verifying this claim! lol
Fine expressed that he is especially appreciative of the loyal commercial and name mention sponsors the broadcasts have had on Jon Fine Sports Productions’ Denham Springs HS play-by-play broadcasts throughout the years. Many have been with the broadcasts on a year-in, year-out basis. Fine expressed hope that listeners will have the opportunity to patronize these businesses and let them know they heard about them on DSHS Football radio broadcasts.
Jackets play-by-play announcer Josh Ward, a Denham Springs HS graduate, was a Yellow Jackets assistant basketball coach. He is an executive at Guaranty Broadcasting. Much to the regret of several ladies in the Greater Baton Rouge area and points unknown, he is single.
Mitch Covington, a 3-sport star at Denham Springs HS, would later serve as a Jackets assistant football coach. He is presently the head football coach at Denham Springs Junior High School. He is a graduate of McNeese State, where he played baseball. He is married and has 2 children.
Jon Fine co-hosted and produced daily 2-hour drive-time radio sports-talk programs in the Greater Baton Rouge area for close to 20 years. His programs (first SportsTalk, which changed its name to SportsGumbo), aired, at times, in New Orleans, Lake Charles, Monroe and Alexandria, in addition to the Baton Rouge market. His company, Jon Fine Productions, has produced numerous Denham Springs HS and area HS sports programming on television, radio and internet. Fine presently has an EBay store—ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides. He is a native of Valley Stream, New York and a graduate of Penn, where he majored in Marketing. Much to the delight of several ladies in the Greater Baton Rouge area and points unknown, he is single.
For more information on Denham Springs HS Sports programming and Jon Fine Productions, please visit JonFineProductions.com.
DENHAM SPRINGS HS FOOTBALL RADIO BROADCASTS ARE A JON FINE PRODUCTION ON FAMILY RADIO, 91.9 FM, BATON ROUGE and JonFineProductions.com.
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