#SocialStudies v4.0
February 23, 2012
The best part about #SocialStudies, as I’m sure you’ve all realized by Week 4, is that the sum of its parts make entirely zero sense when combined into one.
There are no easy transitions from flying squirrel wrestling moves to some guy dancing down a professional sporting arena aisle while Bon Jovi blares in the background. Nevertheless – we love compiling the weird and wacky each week.
So, without further ado …
1. You won't see this in Battle Creek, but ...
Last summer, this Chicago-area high schooler stunned an arena with acrobatics not seen on a wrestling mat since… well, never. Yes, we are very aware that this type of "flying squirrel" move is illegal under high school rules – but that doesn’t make it any less cool to watch. Don’t worry: multiple angles shown.
2. Dance Machine, circa 1986
The lip-syncing is fairly horrific. The moves aren’t anything spectacular. And this video is more than three years old. And yet, once you start watching this weird dude at a Celtics game – you cannot stop. His stellar sassy-steppin’ solo starts around 10 seconds in. Ladies and gentlemen: I give you Mr. Jeremy Fry in HD.
3. He is the Hunter; Robichaud, the hunted.
Junior Vincent Hunter of Detroit Consortium knows how to dunk. Here’s a compilation of no less than four of them from their game last week against Dearborn Heights Robichaud. The Cougars won the game, 73-67 – pushing their latest winning streak to four straight.
4. Say it with us: Battle ... of ... the ... Fans!
And finally, it seems amiss to neglect the final day of fan polling for our Battle of The Fans contest. View all five finalist submissions here and click the image below to vote on Facebook for your favorite. Good luck to Frankenmuth, Grand Rapids Christian, Petoskey, Reese and Rockford!
It's MHSAA tournament time, which should reveal a bevy of video highlights and social media madness as we finish up February and fly full bore into March.
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Live Stats, Games on MHSAA.tv
December 9, 2014
Another feature offered on the MHSAA.tv website is the availability of live basketball stats at member schools using the Digital Scout platform for their in-game statistics keeping.
Digital Scout is a division of PlayOn! Sports, which powers the NFHS Network. Schools input statistics live using a handheld device. When connected to the Internet, those stats stream live on a school’s portal page and on the MHSAA portal page. For those games which have live streaming video and live stats, they are incorporated onto a single page to enhance the viewer’s experience.
Last week, live stats were available for over a dozen girls basketball games, along with a similar number of basketball and ice hockey games with live streaming video from MHSAA members participating in the School Broadcast Program; those numbers will only grow now that the boys basketball season has begun.
The School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover varsity competition this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv (As of Dec. 8). The following events will be shown live:
Monday – Dec. 8
Boys Basketball – Highland Milford at Gibraltar Carlson, 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Sault Ste. Marie at Escanaba, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Pellston at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 9
Boys Basketball – Cassopolis at Dowagiac, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Negaunee at Escanaba, 7:30 p.m.
Friday – Dec. 12
Boys Basketball – Riverview at Gibraltar Carlson, 5:30 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Grand Rapids Catholic Central v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood @ Gaylord, 6:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Atlanta at Hillman, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Boyne Falls at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Rochester at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Kingsford at Escanaba, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday – Dec. 13
Ice Hockey – Flint Powers Catholic v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood @ Gaylord, 4:15 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Farmington Hills Harrison at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Monday – Dec. 15
Boys Basketball – Dollar Bay at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 16
Girls Basketball – West Iron County at Calumet, 7 p.m.
The following events will be available on video following their completion on a delayed basis:
Monday – Dec. 8
Boys Basketball – Fairview at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Hale at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 9
Girls Basketball – Lansing Eastern at Mason, 7 p.m.
Thursday – Dec. 11
Boys Basketball – Hale at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
Friday – Dec. 12
Wrestling – Charlevoix at Rogers City, 1:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Posen at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Monday - Dec. 15
Boys Basketball – Oscoda at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 16
Girls Basketball - Okemos at Mason, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Rogers City at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on MHSAA.tv on a subscription basis for their first 72 hours online. A portion of each subscription is returned to school originating the broadcast. Subscriptions run either $9.95 for a Day Pass, or $14.95 for a Month Pass. Some schools are also offering Annual Passes at a discounted rate. All sporting events become available for free On Demand viewing three days after they have been posted.
To view all of the recent School Broadcast Program productions, go to MHSAA.TV, click On Demand on the navigation bar of the left side of the page, and on the Filters tab at the top of next page, click on All States and then select Michigan.
See below for highlights from last week's School Broadcast Program events on MHSAA.tv.