#SocialStudies v2.0
February 9, 2012
It's Week 2 in our #SocialStudies, and we’ve been scouring the Web for the wacky, zany, wild and weird.
We’ve found a few morsels to whet the appetite of our loyal SecondHalf readership. Remember: if you come across something you think needs to be seen – SUBMIT IT!
1. In a Pickle
We’re always on the lookout for the “next big thing” in sports; this story on “Pickleball” caught our eye.
Spring Lake High School was the first to get a visit from a group of senior Pickleballers – follow-up visits to Grand Haven and Muskegon Mona Shores are in the works, too. Needless to say, there’s a faction of MHSAA staffers ready to take on any and all challengers. Anyone out there a fan – or or better yet, an expert – Pickler?
2. Nothing but net
You could give high school senior Jake Norcia 86 repeat tries on this shot; he’d likely miss all 86. It wasn’t a game-winner for Highland Park High School (Ill.), but the sheer distance that the ball travels to eventually find the net here is astonishing. In addition, the way the ball was thrown – looks like the shooter was just tossing a piece of paper in the waste bin.
3. Must have been a big win
From Fairfax, Va. – one of the more impressive court-rushes we’ve witnessed in 2012. A 3-pointer at the buzzer causes absolute pandemonium.
Need another angle? Sure.
4. Just ... Wow.
Not sure what a Sit Ski is? You’ll know after watching this short clip on paraplegic skier Josh Dueck. Great production in the video, and obviously a terrific support network of friends. We were moved by the story – and think you will be, too.
That's a wrap. See something over the weekend that caught your eye? Upload it to YouTube and send it on over.
It could become part of Second Half’s #SocialStudies.
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Hoops Score Big on MHSAA.TV
March 11, 2014
The MHSAA Basketball Semifinals and Finals will have broadcast coverage on a variety of cable television, internet and radio platforms over the next two weekends.
The Girls Basketball Finals will take place Thursday through Saturday (March 13-15) at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. The Boys Finals will take place March 20-22.
The championship games will be televised live by FOX Sports Detroit. The Class D and A title games of the Girls Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit, and the Class C and B games will be shown on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS will carry the Finals of the Boys Tournament the following weekend.
Semifinal games will be streamed live on a subscription basis on MHSAA.TV. The Basketball coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch both weekends of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Day Pass is available for $9.95. All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing.
A number of events already are available on-demand, including last weekend's Hockey, Gymnastics and Lower Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals, and a number of Girls Basketball Regional, Boys Basketball District and Hockey Quarterfinal games listed below. The listings are followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
Girls Basketball Regionals
- Norway vs. L'Anse
- St. Ignace vs. Ishpeming
- St. Ignace vs. L'Anse
Hockey Quarterfinals
- Farmington vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
- Plymouth vs. Detroit Catholic Central
Boys Basketball Districts
- Vassar vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy
- L'Anse vs. Ironwood
- Onaway vs. Wolverine
- Ellsworth vs. Alba
- East Lansing vs. Okemos
- Haslett vs. DeWitt
- Watervliet vs. Bridgman
- Cedar Springs vs. Rockford
- Montrose vs. Reese
- Calumet vs. Hancock
- Central Lake vs. Boyne Falls
- Lansing Eastern vs. Lansing Everett
- Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
- Vassar vs. New Lothrop
- Hale vs. AuGres-Sims
- Richland Gull Lake vs. Holt
- Bellaire vs. Ellsworth
- Calumet vs. Ironwood
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
- Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Gladstone vs. Escanaba
- Atlanta vs. Fairview
- Haslett vs. Okemos
- Grand Ledge vs. Mason
- Holt vs. Mason
- Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Grand Rapids Northview
- Saginaw Nouvel vs. Hemlock
- New Lothrop vs. Montrose
MHSAA Perspective: This week, John Johnson talks about the value of school sports and how the values they teach surpass anything that happens in other youth sports by other sponsors - Nothing Like It