#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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This Week on MHSAA.TV

September 24, 2014

A growing list of volleyball matches from the Grand Rapids and northern Lower Peninsula areas and Upper Peninsula are among events from last week available on-demand on MHSAA.tv.

Below are recent events currently available on-demand at MHSAA.tv, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.tv Highlights. Also, weekly highlights, features and analysis of high school football games across the state on MHSAA Football Friday Overtime are now available for on-demand viewing on the Prep Zone page of the FOX Sports Detroit Website.

Football 

  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Tawas
  • Onaway vs. Central Lake
  • Whittemore-Prescott vs. Standish-Sterling
  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Eastern
  • Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Cedar Springs

Boys Soccer

  • East Lansing vs. DeWitt
  • East Lansing vs. Saginaw Heritage
  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton
  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Alpena

Swimming and Diving

  • East Lansing vs. DeWitt

Volleyball 

  • Posen vs. Fairview
  • Oscoda vs. Rogers City
  • Clare vs. Farwell
  • Negaunee vs. Escanaba
  • Posen vs. Hillman
  • Calumet vs. Hancock
  • Comstock Park vs. Allendale

MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, our John Johnson talks about how some people try to dress up old arguments about national travel for high school sports - kind of like putting lipstick on a pig - It's Still a Pig

MHSAA.tv Highlights: This week's package includes clips from the Rogers City/Hillman and Tawas/Lincoln Alcona football games, Farwell/Clare volleyball match and Corunna/Montrose soccer game.