#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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First 2014 Finals Come to MHSAA.TV

February 18, 2014

The first MHSAA Finals of 2014, in Upper Peninsula Swimming and Diving, are available on-demand along with a number of girls and boys basketball and hockey games, all on MHSAA.TV.

Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Swimming and Diving

  • MHSAA Upper Peninsula Girls and Boys Finals

Hockey

  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Birmingham Brother Rice
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Wyandotte Roosevelt

Girls Basketball

  • AuGres-Sims vs. Hale
  • Escanaba vs. Gladstone
  • Rogers City vs. Lincoln Alcona
  • Charlevoix vs. Harbor Springs
  • Cheboygan vs. Gaylord
  • Comstock Park vs. Wyoming
  • Whittemore-Prescott vs. Rogers City
  • Ellsworth vs. Harbor Springs
  • Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Gaylord St. Mary
  • Calumet vs. Ontonagon
  • Haslett vs. Ionia
  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton

  • Boys Basketball Comstock Park vs. Allendale
  • Lansing Everett vs. East Lansing
  • Cedar Springs vs. Grand Rapids Christian
  • Plainwell vs. South Haven
  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Rogers City
  • Comstock Park vs. Wyoming
  • Central Lake vs. Gaylord St. Mary
  • Central Lake vs. Mancelona
  • Haslett vs. Ionia
  • AuGres-sims vs. Atlanta
  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton
  • Rogers City vs. Whittemore-Prescott

MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson reminisces about some memorable individual contributions to team championships - Who Will Step Up?