#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 on MHSAA.TV

March 7, 2012

Coverage of MHSAA championship events by Fox Sports Detroit and the MHSAA Network continues this weekend with live streams and television broadcasts from the Ice Hockey and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming and Diving Finals.

All hockey Semifinals, beginning Thursday, will be streamed live both at FoxSportsDetroit.com and MHSAA.tv. Saturday's Division 2 and 3 Hockey Finals will be broadcast live on Fox Sports Detroit Plus, but the Division1 Final will be streamed live on FoxSportsDetroit.com.

All three Lower Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals also will be streamed live at FoxSportsDetroit.com and MHSAA.tv on Saturday. And check out archived broadcasts of the Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling Finals on MHSAA.tv, as well as some of these student-produced games listed below:

Saturday's Marysville vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood Regional hockey game.
Thursday's Portage Central vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern Regional hockey game.
Friday's South Lyon vs. Linden District girls basketball game.
Friday's Trenton vs. Brownstown Woodhaven District girls basketball game.
Thursday's Okemos at St. Johns boys basketball game.

See more at MHSAA.tv. Additional events are added regularly.