#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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MHSAA.TV March Hits Midpoint
February 24, 2014
Nearly 300 hours of live streaming video from MHSAA Championships in Girls Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling, plus Student Broadcast Program produced coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, will be available on the MHSAA.TV website as the March of Winter approaches its midway point.
The coverage begins Monday with School Broadcast Programs providing on demand coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, plus the last week of the regular season in Boys Basketball. Check the MHSAA.TV website for daily schedule updates.
Live streaming this week begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 27) from The Palace of Auburn Hills at the Individual Wrestling Finals. A dedicated camera will be on each of 12 mats on the floor, and include full graphics to indicate the participants in each match, plus full in-progress scoring information via Trackwrestling. Girls Competitive Cheer coverage begins Friday from The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids.
The continued Wrestling and full Cheer coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV and online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Month Pass on MHSAA.TV for $14.95 will give a viewer access to events over a 30-day period from the time it is purchased. Over the next three weekends of live winter championship coverage, the following events will be featured:
- · Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals – March 6-8
- · Girls Gymnastics Finals – March 7-8
- · Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals – March 8
- · Girls Basketball Semifinals – March 13-14
- · Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 20-21
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.
Catch up on some of the final regular-season games for both girls basketball and hockey on MHSAA.TV as those sports move on to postseason competition this week.
Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
- East Lansing vs. St. Johns
- Lakeview vs. White Cloud
- AuGres-Sims vs. Posen
- Central Lake vs. Indian River Inland Lakes
- Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
- Davison vs. Flint Hamady
- Comstock Park vs. Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
- Plainwell vs. Coloma
- Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
Hockey
- Midland vs. Hemlock/Saginaw Swan Valley
- Detroit Catholic Central vs. Warren DeLaSalle
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Trenton
- Boys Basketball
- East Lansing vs. Grand Ledge
- Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
- Cheboygan vs. Gaylord
- AuGres-Sims vs. Hillman
- Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
- Watervliet vs. Lawrence
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
- Petoskey vs. Alpena
- Escanaba vs. Gladstone
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson talks about those games that are supposedly decided on their last play - The Last Play