#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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Prep Zone Returns for Football Playoffs

October 29, 2013

Live broadcasts of MHSAA football playoff games return Friday with the first edition of Prep Zone from Fox Sports Detroit. 

MHSAA Prep Zone on FOXSportsDetroit.com will stream live video of four games during each of the first four weeks of the postseason.This week's games kick off at 7 p.m. EDT:

  • Gogebic (Bessemer/Wakefield-Marinesco) at Crystal Falls Forest Park
  • Southfield at Birmingham Seaholm
  • Eaton Rapids at Charlotte
  • Taylor Truman at Allen Park 

On MHSAA.TV check out last week's broadcasts of four sports including a pair of football games that decided league titles:

  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Sexton volleyball 
  • Davison vs. Goodrich volleyball
  • AuGres-Sims vs. Rogers City volleyball
  • Hillman vs. Atlanta volleyball
  • Petoskey vs. Traverse City West volleyball
  • East Lansing vs. Grand Ledge volleyball
  • Mio vs. Rogers City volleyball
  • Calumet vs. Gladstone football
  • Oscoda vs. AuGres-Sims football
  • St. Ignace vs. Cheboygan football
  • Kalkaska vs. Elk Rapids football
  • Hale vs. Hillman football
  • Atlanta vs. Rogers City football
  • Berrien Springs vs. Plainwell football
  • East Lansing vs. Okemos football
  • Montrose vs. Lake Fenton football
  • East Kentwood vs. Rockford football
  • Mio vs. Lincoln Alcona football
  • Sparta vs. Comstock Park football
  • Boyne City vs. Grayling football
  • Rockford vs. Holland West Ottawa girls swimming and diving
  • East Lansing vs. Linden boys soccer

MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson talks about how the expectations of parents turned sweet possibilities into a sour season for their kids - Crushed by Parental Expectations