#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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Hockey Champs Play on MHSAA.TV

February 5, 2014

A pair of reigning MHSAA hockey champions are among teams in action last week that can be watched on-demand at MHSAA.TV.

Reigning Division 2 champion Livonia Stevenson's game against Division 1 runner-up Detroit Catholic Central is among broadcasts now available, as are two games including Division 3 winner Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood.

Here's a look at all listings of games from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Hockey

  • Port Huron Northern vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
  • Detroit U-D Jesuit vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
  • Livonia Stevenson vs. Detroit Catholic Central
  • Calumet vs. Kingsford

Girls Basketball

  • Gaylord St. Mary vs. Johannesburg-Lewiston
  • Calumet vs. L'Anse
  • Atlanta vs. Rogers City
  • Lawton vs. Watervliet
  • Allegan vs. Plainwell
  • Davison vs. Flint Powers Catholic

Boys Basketball

  • Petoskey vs. Cheboygan
  • Whittemore-Prescott vs. AuGres-Sims
  • Sault Ste. Marie vs. Alpena
  • Alba vs. Ellsworth
  • Hale vs. Lincoln Alcona
  • Painesdale-Jeffers vs. Calumet
  • Watervliet vs. Lawton
  • Hemlock vs. Saginaw Valley Lutheran
  • Allegan vs. Plainwell
  • Hudsonville vs. East Kentwood

Wrestling

  • Alpena vs. Onaway
  • St. Ignace vs. Onaway
  • Ovid-Elsie vs. Hemlock
  • Hemlock vs. Saginaw Nouvel

MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson talks about the need to respect officials after a fan attempted to grab a referee during a recent game in mid-Michigan - Keep Your Hands to Yourself