#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.
See something high school sports-related online that the rest of us must see? Capture some cool video yourself? Upload it to We're always looking for more to add to your weekly #SocialStudies.
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First 2014 Finals Come to MHSAA.TV
February 18, 2014
The first MHSAA Finals of 2014, in Upper Peninsula Swimming and Diving, are available on-demand along with a number of girls and boys basketball and hockey games, all on MHSAA.TV.
Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
Swimming and Diving
- MHSAA Upper Peninsula Girls and Boys Finals
Hockey
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Birmingham Brother Rice
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Wyandotte Roosevelt
Girls Basketball
- AuGres-Sims vs. Hale
- Escanaba vs. Gladstone
- Rogers City vs. Lincoln Alcona
- Charlevoix vs. Harbor Springs
- Cheboygan vs. Gaylord
- Comstock Park vs. Wyoming
- Whittemore-Prescott vs. Rogers City
- Ellsworth vs. Harbor Springs
- Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Gaylord St. Mary
- Calumet vs. Ontonagon
- Haslett vs. Ionia
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton
- Boys Basketball Comstock Park vs. Allendale
- Lansing Everett vs. East Lansing
- Cedar Springs vs. Grand Rapids Christian
- Plainwell vs. South Haven
- Lincoln Alcona vs. Rogers City
- Comstock Park vs. Wyoming
- Central Lake vs. Gaylord St. Mary
- Central Lake vs. Mancelona
- Haslett vs. Ionia
- AuGres-sims vs. Atlanta
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton
- Rogers City vs. Whittemore-Prescott
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson reminisces about some memorable individual contributions to team championships - Who Will Step Up?