#SocialStudies V 2.1
September 13, 2012
By Andi Osters
Second Half social media guru
Welcome back, video mongers! A new school year has begun, and with it #SocialStudies 2.0.
Ready for your weekly dose of clips to peep? I hope so.
A quick refresher on #SocialStudies – I give you a selection of video clips I spotted in my never-ending quest to find the end of the Internet (which I’m convinced involves a cat video of some sort). These videos will typically highlight the amazing, dazzling, funny or weird side of sports – some high school, some college, some pro… and some which defy categorization.
And sometimes, we’ll simply show you a clip that is interesting and/or unique enough to be worth sharing.
We welcome your submissions and ideas for this weekly feature, so feel free to email us a link or raw footage. Seriously: we love videos. That said, let’s get to the meat & potatoes.
1. Give him a hand (he needs only one)
Here’s a high school football player from South Carolina who apparently was born with mattress springs attached to his legs instead of feet. The slo-mo replay of this interception (courtesy of PlayOn! Sports) is simply jaw-dropping.
2. Oh, Buddy ...
If Blake Griffin was at a gymnasium and I also happened to be in that very same gymnasium, I would absolutely tell my dignity to have a seat and allow that monster NBA dunk-master slam one over my head. I’d probably react to the experience just like this guy did, too.
3. Swing, swing a song
And now, for something completely un-sporty. Well, almost. There’s definitely activity happening in this brief short about an art installation in Montreal. I’m always fascinated by the intersection of musical creation and physical motion. Enjoy this giant human-powered instrument.
4. Summer School
And file this last one under In-Case-You-Missed-It-Over-The-Summer – here’s a recap of our Student Advisory Council’s 2nd Annual camp retreat to Mystic Lake in June. The 16-member council enjoyed time on the high ropes course, team building activities, bonfires and strategizing an action plan for the 2012-13 school year.
That's enough for this school year's first lesson. See something over the weekend that caught your eye? Snag something at a pep assembly that we should see? Upload it to YouTube and send it on over.
You might just see it on Second Half’s #SocialStudies.
Live Finals Play On at MHSAA.TV
March 4, 2014
Another full weekend of live MHSAA Finals video will be available on the MHSAA.TV website this week with coverage of Girls Gymnastics, Ice Hockey and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Championships.
The championship coverage will be complimented by Student Broadcast Program on-demand productions of Boys Basketball Districts and Girls Basketball Regionals. Check the MHSAA.TV website for daily schedule updates.
Live streaming this week begins at 5 p.m. Thursday (March 6) with the first of two Division 2 Semifinal games in the Ice Hockey Tournament. Division 3 and 1 Semifinals follow on Friday (March 7), with the Finals on Saturday (March 8).
Girls Gymnastics coverage begins Friday at 2 p.m. with the Team Finals competition at Plymouth High School and will be followed Saturday with the Individual Finals at noon. Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming and Diving coverage begins at noon Saturday at three locations, with the consolation and championship heat in each swimming event plus the final round of the diving.
The continued Gymnastics, Hockey and Swimming coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95.
Also available on-demand this week on MHSAA.TV are every round from last week's Individual Wrestling Finals plus a host of Girls Basketball District games, Hockey Regional games and boys basketball games from the final week of that regular season.
Here's a look at those listings, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
- Haslett vs. East Lansing
- Comstock Park vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
- Hillman vs. Posen
- Lowell vs. Greenville
- Ada Forest Hills Eastern vs. Grand Rapids Wellspring
- Haslett vs. Okemos
- Mio vs. Houghton Lake
- Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Lansing Waverly vs. DeWitt
- Grand Rapids West Catholic vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
- Tawas vs. Lincoln Alcona
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
- DeWitt vs. Haslett
- Greenville vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Houghton Lake vs. Lincoln Alcona
Hockey
- Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
- Escanaba vs. Negaunee
- Calumet vs. Hancock
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
- Painesdale-Jeffers vs. Hancock
- Marquette vs. Escanaba
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
Boys Basketball
- Lakeview vs. Morley-Stanwood
- Comstock Park vs. Jenison
- Cedar Springs vs. Sparta
- Plainwell vs. Parchment
- Petoskey vs. Boyne City
- Cheboygan vs. Charlevoix
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Waverly
- Watervliet vs. Saugatuck
- Houghton Lake vs. Harrison
- Calumet vs. Escanaba
- Fairview vs. Rogers City
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson offers some little known facts about the MHSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments - Did You Know?