#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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Plenty of Pigskin on MHSAA.TV

September 12, 2013

Want more football? Check out 24 teams in 12 games from all over the state last week on-demand aMHSAA.TV.

Those are just part of the body of events available from last week, including multiple soccer games featuring Division 2 top-ranked East Lansing. 

See the list and watch highlights below from two Week 2 football games and a recent volleyball match in our highlights package at the bottom of this screen: 

  • Rockford vs. Holt football
  • Davison vs. Midland football
  • Three Rivers vs. Plainwell football
  • Montrose vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett football
  • Atlanta vs. Central Lake football
  • Whittemore-Prescott vs. Oscoda football
  • Rogers City vs. Onaway football
  • Felch North Dickinson vs. Newberry football
  • Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Inland Lakes Indian River football
  • Maple City Glen Lake vs. Charlevoix football
  • AuGres-Sims vs. Lincoln Alcona football
  • Cedar Springs vs. Sparta football
  • Hillman vs. Mancelona volleyball
  • East Lansing vs. Jackson volleyball
  • East Lansing vs. Detroit Country Day boys soccer
  • East Lansing vs. Jackson boys soccer


MHSAA Perspective: John Johnson discusses the reality behind major television networks broadcasting high school games and why their reasons don't match up with the values of high school athletics - The Reality of TV