October 24, 2025
DSHS IN ACTION!
Denham Springs HS Football plays host to Prairieville HS on Friday night. You can catch all the action on YouTube—please subscribe @dsjacketvision, on the air at 91.9 FM and on the internet at JonFineProductions.com
Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup opens things up at 6 pm
Josh Ward on play-by-play, with Mitch Covington on color commentary. Darren Ferrante is the Producer, with Chris Ledoux the Camera Operator
Go Jackets!!!!!
TONIGHT’S GUEST INTERVIEWS
Hooping it Up! We will be interviewing Denham Springs HS Girls Basketball Coach Rudy Smith on Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup. The Whistle Stop Half-Time Report will feature an interview with Jackets Boys Basketball Coach Cab (Kevin Caballero).
THIS WEEK’S COLUMN
SCOTT OSBORNE DISCUSSES FALTASY FOOTBALL. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR THE WIZARDRY OF OS.
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
Fool me once… you know the phrase. I stopped playing fantasy football once in my life because I hated losing twice. I would watch the Saints lose and then lose in fantasy football because the player on the team that beat the Saints had a terrible game for my fantasy team. In other words, I would lose as a Saints fan and a fantasy owner from the same game.
This week took it to another level. It started with the Steelers defense recording negative four points against the Bengals!! Joe Flacco doesn’t know half the plays for the Bengals, but knows who the best players on the team are and threw it to Chase and Higgins. Once again showing that when you have true ballers, the best plan is to keep it simple and get them the darn ball (as Keyshawn Johnson said to do). For the record, my opponent in fantasy had Ja’Marr Chase. I was down 38 to -4 right off the bat.
With Puka Nakua hurt and Josh Allen on a bye, I needed some others to step up. Due to injuries and another player on a bye, I was looking straight at Caleb Williams and D’Andre Swift who were going against the Saints. I had to play Caleb Williams as he was my only other quarterback. Meanwhile, Swift was questionable so I kept him on my bench.
All that was the perfect setup for what happened. The Saints offense was terrible for 95% of the first half. Rattler looked lost. Tayson Hill was once again underused based on the salary and production he is capable of producing. Meanwhile, the Saints defense was awful against the run. The defensive tackles were on skates allowing the Bears to gash the Saints in the run game. Even though the Bears spread the carries around, Swift had 16 fantasy points.
Meanwhile, Caleb Williams, who has been averaging 20 points a game, didn’t need to do anything because the Saints couldn’t stop the run. As a result, he only had 4.5 points. I was crushed in fantasy, falling to 2-5, just one game better than the Saints who are now 1-6.
But enough about me and football, it is almost basketball season. I know the general sentiment is that the Pels are a disaster, but that is not fact, yet. As always with the Pelicans (recently), a healthy roster is a talented roster. Of course, winning NBA games comes down to being able to score in the last 3 minutes of the game, and that will require a healthy Zion. I am not foolish enough to expect a healthy roster from the Pels this year, but I am foolish enough to think that the ingredients are in place for this to be a playoff team if they can just have “normal” injury luck.
College basketball, on the other hand, has turned into the G-League. The top teams have 22-24 year olds who have developed physically and are experienced. LSU basketball has those players this year. Are they good enough to compete in the best conference in college basketball? I don’t know, but there is a chance. LSU at least has the ingredients to compete.
I know you might be reading this article and rolling your eyes that I am turning to basketball in the middle of football season. But after watching LSU and the Saints play for 7 weeks, I know what we have to look forward to the rest of the season and I would like to be somewhat hopeful.
DENHAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS BACK ON THE AIR!
The 2025 school year marks the 29th season that Jon Fine (Sports) Productions will have the privilege of producing and calling play-by-play for Denham Springs HS Football broadcasts. In 2025, the broadcast slate will include the Jamboree, all 10 regular season Denham games, and every playoff game. Broadcasts can be seen on YouTube, @dsjacketvision (please subscribe) and can be heard on Family Radio-91.9 FM Baton Rouge and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com (click Listen Live on the Denham Springs Football PBP page). “Sport-n-Center Yellow Jackets Warm-Up” gets the broadcasts underway at 6:00 pm. The first broadcast is Friday, August 29 when the Jackets play host to Walker HS in the Denham Springs Jamboree.
Josh Ward returns as the play-by-play announcer of the Jackets. Ward will, once again, be joined by Mitch Covington as the color commentator. Jon Fine will contribute to the pre-game and half-time programming. Darren Ferrante is back as the Producer, with Chris Ledoux joining the team in the capacity of @dsjacketvision Camera Operator.
“Sport N Center Yellow 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 Whistle Stop 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.
“The James Drug Store Starting Lineup” appears in “Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup”. 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”. When the Jackets have secured a victory, Ward will indicate such and it will be brought to you by Bank Plus.
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.
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.
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 owns an EBay store—ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides, which sells sports publications. He is a native of Valley Stream, New York and a graduate of Penn, where he majored in Marketing.
Ferrante is a graduate of Brother Martin HS and UNO. Ledoux is a graduate of Opelousas HS and USL. He presently serves Doyle Middle School as their offensive line coach.
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