#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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Hoops Score Big on MHSAA.TV
March 11, 2014
The MHSAA Basketball Semifinals and Finals will have broadcast coverage on a variety of cable television, internet and radio platforms over the next two weekends.
The Girls Basketball Finals will take place Thursday through Saturday (March 13-15) at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. The Boys Finals will take place March 20-22.
The championship games will be televised live by FOX Sports Detroit. The Class D and A title games of the Girls Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit, and the Class C and B games will be shown on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS will carry the Finals of the Boys Tournament the following weekend.
Semifinal games will be streamed live on a subscription basis on MHSAA.TV. The Basketball coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch both weekends of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Day Pass is available for $9.95. All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing.
A number of events already are available on-demand, including last weekend's Hockey, Gymnastics and Lower Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals, and a number of Girls Basketball Regional, Boys Basketball District and Hockey Quarterfinal games listed below. The listings are followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
Girls Basketball Regionals
- Norway vs. L'Anse
- St. Ignace vs. Ishpeming
- St. Ignace vs. L'Anse
Hockey Quarterfinals
- Farmington vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
- Plymouth vs. Detroit Catholic Central
Boys Basketball Districts
- Vassar vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy
- L'Anse vs. Ironwood
- Onaway vs. Wolverine
- Ellsworth vs. Alba
- East Lansing vs. Okemos
- Haslett vs. DeWitt
- Watervliet vs. Bridgman
- Cedar Springs vs. Rockford
- Montrose vs. Reese
- Calumet vs. Hancock
- Central Lake vs. Boyne Falls
- Lansing Eastern vs. Lansing Everett
- Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
- Vassar vs. New Lothrop
- Hale vs. AuGres-Sims
- Richland Gull Lake vs. Holt
- Bellaire vs. Ellsworth
- Calumet vs. Ironwood
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
- Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Gladstone vs. Escanaba
- Atlanta vs. Fairview
- Haslett vs. Okemos
- Grand Ledge vs. Mason
- Holt vs. Mason
- Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Grand Rapids Northview
- Saginaw Nouvel vs. Hemlock
- New Lothrop vs. Montrose
MHSAA Perspective: This week, John Johnson talks about the value of school sports and how the values they teach surpass anything that happens in other youth sports by other sponsors - Nothing Like It