Ostrander reflects on record season

The Bobcats ended up second in the World Series, falling to Western Oklahoma State College 11-1 in the championship game on June 4 at David Allen Memorial Ballpark. JCJC entered the event ranked No. 6 in the nation and proceeded to defeat fourth-ranked Des Moines Area Community College (Iowa), 9-1; top-ranked Heartland Community College (Ill.), 10-5; No. 14 Kellogg Community College (Mich.), 10-7 in 10 innings; and No. 7-rated Madison Area Technical College (Wisc.), 11-4, in their first four games. “The state championship was very exciting, but winning the South Division was our main goal,” he said. “Because if you win the South that puts you into a position to host and we were ecstatic about that. Dr. Smith, the administration and Board made a big commitment to baseball to win. It makes me feel good to bring that to them this year – it was not me, it was the players. It was great just to be able to see that their vision and commitment has paid off.” “You feel like a proud father because of what those guys accomplished on that day,” Ostrander explained. “It was hot, tough and draining on that day. I’ve said this so many times to so many people that the most talented teams don’t always win in this game – it’s the team with more heart and determination and unity. Saturday’s games could be used as an example for years and years and years to come. “The whole experience of being at the World Series was special,” Ostrander said. “The games were just one phase of it. This team has called itself a ‘family’ all year and it was our last chance to be together. I told them to make sure they enjoyed the experience because for however long we were there, once it’s over, it’s over. “If we get back there enough, we will do it,” he said. “There will come a point where we will do it. If you do something once, it’s confidence because you can do it again and we can. It won’t be easy because you’ve got to get through your schedule, get through the South, get through the state tournament, win enough to get to a regional and you will have to knock off some good Mississippi teams and a Eunice.

Sons of Steve Garvey: Olbermann Joins The Murdoch Dogpile

On May 28 2008, at his Dow Jones Conference in Carlsbad, California, Rupert Murdoch was asked by a reporter from his Wall Street Journal if he'd ever try to offer a dissenting voice on his ultra-conservative Fox News channel by hiring me away from my liberal perch on its rival, MSNBC.

"No," he replied without hesitation. "I fired him five years ago. He was crazy."

Thereby hangs a tale.

In the late 1990s, Murdoch experienced one of his first abject failures in American television. He cobbled together a collection of the regional sports networks that owned the local TV rights to professional and college baseball, basketball, football and hockey games, and out of them forged "Fox Sports Net". He pointed this large uncoordinated cache of slingshots at the giant of sports media, ESPN, and purchased from NBC News for $1 million the contract of the largest rock he could find.

Me.

I was to anchor the lynchpin that would both connect the formerly Mom-and-Pop television operations and attack ESPN at its heart. I would spend two hours each night as the host of "Fox Sports News" and try to unseat the show I had helped make famous, ESPN's "SportsCenter"; and I would spend a sixth day trying to energise the national baseball telecasts as their host on Fox's broadcast network.

For once, Murdoch's mafia failed him. A multimillion-dollar advertising campaign misidentified the hours I was to host. With as many as 20 local game telecasts ending at different times, the regionals sometimes joined our sports news roundup just in time to hear me say good night. Murdoch gave me a record-breaking contract , but that turned out to be an impossibly disproportionate tenth of the network's entire budget. Weeks in, Murdoch summoned Tony Ball, the executive who knew it would take us at least five years to merely approach the rat ings of "SportsCenter", back to run BSkyB and directed his replacements to get the ratings up within five weeks. They immediately rescheduled Fox Sports News to make certain it never went head-to-head with "SportsCenter", and ESPN's initial terror that a rival was merely registering a blip on the radar abated.

And when I had a health scare early in 2000 and pleaded to cut back my workload (and my salary) to just five days' worth, some of Murdoch's men pinioned me. They threatened to increase my schedule and fly me around the country twice a week unless I gave back 60 per cent of my salary.

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