#SocialStudies v8.0

April 5, 2012

Happy Spring Break, #SocialStudies regulars!  It's been a quiet week in our office with many Lower Peninsula schools off all week -- but I still managed to dig up some web gems for your perusal. *Beach umbrella optional.

1. Fore real?

Oh, professional golfers. Do they even know? They can't possibly understand how difficult this game is for the rest of us; I look like a toddler aimlessly swinging a metal stick while teetering around well-shorn grass plateaus. 

The 2012 Masters Tournament tees off today -- and players in the field lurked around Augusta earlier this week, reading greens and testing the waters, if you will. One such tester? Martin Kaymer, who tees off second in this clip. I'd suggest watching the entire 37 seconds.


2. Floored by this performance

This woman is named Johanna Quaas, and she is 86 years old. Read that twice for effect. Here's her floor routine (yes, FLOOR ROUTINE!) at a gymnastics tournament called “Turnier Der Meister,” or Tournament of Masters, at the 2012 Cottbus World Cup in Germany.


3. Watch the guys who are supposed to be defending

In Iowa, it looks like mash-up sporting might be the next big thing. I think this play could be called a roll-out?


4. Moves like Stokkebroe

We opened with an octogenarian doing something amazing; and I think it's appropriate to bookend things with this little heart-breaker. William Stokkebroe is 2 years old, and wee man can flat-out shake it. Try not to smile: Dare you.


 As always -- if you find something worthy of us watching, send it over. Links, photos, stories ... whatever strikes your fancy that week. Make it part of our #SocialStudies!

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Today in the MHSAA: 10/24/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 24, 2024

1. BOYS SOCCER No. 2 Flint Powers Catholic edged No. 3 Imlay City in a Division 3 Regional Semifinal – Port Huron Times Herald

2. BOYS SOCCER No. 5 Mason advanced in its Division 2 Regional with a shootout win over Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

3. BOYS SOCCER Top-ranked Pontiac Notre Dame Prep downed Frankenmuth 4-1 in Division 3 – WJRT

4. BOYS SOCCER No. 4 Allendale downed Coldwater 3-0 in a Division 2 Regional Semifinal – WTVB

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 honorable mention Traverse City Central finished a season sweep of rival West – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. VOLLEYBALL Alpena came back from losing the first set to defeat Gaylord in four on Senior Night – Alpena News

7. VOLLEYBALL Hancock earned a road sweep at Lake Linden-Hubbell – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

8. VOLLEYBALL Midland Bullock Creek and Beaverton earned Jack Pine Conference sweeps – Midland Daily News