February 23, 2026
LADY JACKETS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS BROADCASTS!
Coach Rudy’s DSHS Girls team plays host to South Lafourche in a second-round playoff game tonight. Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup airtime is 5:30 pm—do note earlier air-time than usual. Catch all the action on YouTube @dsjacketvision, on the radio at 91.9 FM and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com. Josh Ward on play-by-play, Mitch Covington on color, Darren Ferrante as YouTube Producer and Josh Neal on YouTube Camera.
JACKETS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS BROADCASTS!
Coach Cab’s DSHS Boys team plays host to the winner of Tuesday night’s Destrehan vs New Iberia first round game. The Jackets, who have a first-round bye, will have this second-round matchup at home on Friday night. Opponent and air time to be determined, although our best educated guess would be 5:30 pm Sport N Center Yellow Jackets air time. Catch all the action on YouTube @dsjacketvision, on the radio at 91.9 FM and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com. Josh Ward on play-by-play, Mitch Covington on color, Darren Ferrante as YouTube Producer and Josh Neal on YouTube Camera.
GIRLS QUARTERFINAL GAME
WE HOPE
With a W tonight, the Lady Jackets will be one step away from the Top 28. That prospective matchup should take place on Thursday night. Opponent (winner of Slidell and West Monroe game of tonight) to be determined. Our best educated guess would be 5:30 pm air time Thursday night. Knock on wood. Catch all the action… double knock on wood… on YouTube @dsjacketvision, on the radio at 91.9 FM and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com. Josh Ward on play-by-play, Mitch Covington on color, Darren Ferrante as YouTube Producer and Josh Neal on YouTube Camera.
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
Tonight, Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup will include an interview with DSHS Boys Basketball coach Kevin Caballero (Coach Cab). Thursday night, if the girls advance to this matchup… triple knock on wood… our guest will be former DSHS Girls Basketball player Julie Jacobsen, representing the DSAA
On Friday night’s boys broadcast, we will be joined by Coach Rudy Smith, aka Coach Rudy.
DSHS HALL OF FAME INFO
Nominations for the 2026 class of the Denham Springs Athletic Hall of Fame are open. The deadline to turn in nomination forms is March 31st. Forms can be found on the school website under Hall of Fame or at the North Campus office. Any questions about the process can be sent to julie.jacobsen@lpsb.org
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DENHAM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL IS ON THE AIR!
Jon Fine (Sports) Productions will be airing a select slate of Denham Springs HS Boys and Girls Basketball games and all playoff games in 2026!
These broadcasts can be seen on YouTube @dsjacket vision (please Subscribe), on Family Radio-91.9 FM Baton Rouge and on the Internet at JonFineProductions.com (click Listen Live on the Denham Springs HS PBP page). Sport-n-Center Jackets Warm-Up gets the broadcasts underway 30 minutes before tipoff. The first broadcast is Tuesday, February 3, when the Boys play host to Liberty HS.
Josh Ward is 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 programming. Ward and Covington have announced Denham Springs HS Football games for several seasons.
Fine said that with the success of the Denham Springs Football Broadcasts, which expanded to accommodate @dsjacketvision during the 2024 season, he was looking forward to producing Boys and Girls Basketball Broadcasts for the second straight year. “What a response we had @dsjacket vision in the fall! With interest surging in Basketball at Denham, it seemed like an ideal time to have Denham Springs Boys and Girls Basketball games on both radio, Internet and YouTube.”
Working with the Jackets coaching staffs also was a major positive. “Football coach Brett Beard has been incredible to work with. We look forward to, again, joining forces with (Jackets Boys Basketball) coach Cab (Kevin Caballero) and (Lady Jackets Basketball) coach (Rudy) Smith and their staffs to make these broadcasts a success.”
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 of Denham Springs Junior High School Football. He is a graduate of McNeese State, where he played baseball.
Former Jackets football player and assistant coach Josh Neal (now the Football coach at Southside Jr HS) will operate the YouTube camera. Darren Ferante returns as the YouTube Video Producer.
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 that sells sports publications—ArrestedDevelopmentMediaGuides. He is a native of Valley Stream, New York, and a graduate of Penn, where he majored in Marketing.
Sport N Center Yellow Jackets Warmup gets things started. The broadcasting schedule:
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3 BOYS LIBERTY 6:30 PM AIRTIME
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6 BOYS LIVE OAK 6:30 PM AIRTIME
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 GIRLS DUTCHTOWN 6:30 PM AIRTIME
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 GIRLS PRAIRIEVILLE 5:30 PM AIRTIME
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 BOYS WALKER 6:30 PM AIRTIME
PLAYOFFS TO BE DETERMINED
Do note that initially we had a 6-game regular season slate, featuring 3 Boys and 3 Girls games. However, the February 2 Girls game vs St Helena was cancelled. Logistically, we were unable to add another regular season Girls game.
Fine also asserted that like last year, the crew was going to be broadcasting select Baseball and Softball games in the spring.
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