Josh Ward

Much more mature than Jon Fine was at 21 in 2005, when he first started to work with Jon…Has regressed and was about where Jon was at that age…Recent major maturation spurt has pushed him ahead of Jon at present! …Lifelong resident of Denham Springs…Single, no children, no recognizable diseases (but there is potential for such)…2004 Denham Springs HS graduate…Former Principal (and LHSAA Hall of Fame Football coach) Butch Wax, when asked by Jon in an on-air interview about Josh’s academic prowess, questioned whether Josh had actually graduated.  Butch was joking…We think…Josh and Tasmin Mitchell combined for over 2,000 points in high school.  Josh had none of them.  He was the team manager…Former assistant basketball coach at DSHS, where he was one of best dressed coaches in the history of the game.  Better dressed than Rick Pittino at the same stage of career…Metrosexual, before the term came in vogue…Broadcasting debut was for a Sulphur HS basketball game on SportsRadio-KEZM-1310-Lake Charles…Former Host of Livingston Sports Weekly and THE High School Sports Show…Has been pbp man for Central Internet broadcasts since 2008 season.  Has developed real good rapport with Scott Osborne, his color man, when Scott doesn’t cut him off…Josh and Scott’s combined age are less than that of Jon Fine, and substantially less than Josh’s predecessor, Steve Johnson (with Wes Watts on color)…Denham A.D./head football coach Dru Nettles chides Josh about switching sides from Denham to its arch-rival Central.  Dru, in private moments, might call Josh a Benedict Arnold…In his Denham days was once thrown out of a ballgame, as a fan, for an altercation with the Walker mascot…Has more dates in 1 month than Jon has had in his life…Strong aptitude with technical aspect of broadcasting equipment, along with his flair for the ladies leads to reasonable speculation that he is the son of SportsGumbo.net’s Chief Technical Officer Rick Cantu.  DNA test results are pending…Hired at Guaranty Broadcasting despite strong recommendation from Jon Fine…Part of Friday night high school post-game show, does drive-time weather reports and engineers syndicated programming…As a life-long Red Sox fan, he dreads the number 27—number of Yankees championships  (Editor’s note:  Josh will soon have no problem with the number 27…28 will soon be Josh’s unlucky number!)
 
Josh Ward is the play-by-play announcer for Central HS Football broadcasts on WPFC, 1550AM, Baton Rouge and right here, at SportsGumbo.net.