#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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Catch Up Quickly on MHSAA.tv

December 13, 2012

December is a busy month. Maybe you didn't get a chance to enjoy last week's beginning of boys basketball season. 

Catch up on MHSAA.tv with 11 games featuring 21 teams, in addition to a number of broadcasts of girls basketball, wrestling, hockey and swimming and diving competitions.

Find all of these and more by scrolling through the "On Demand" section at the bottom of the MHSAA.tv page.

  • Brighton vs. Petoskey boys basketball
  • Newberry vs. Cheboygan boys basketball
  • Milford vs. Petoskey boys basketball
  • St. Joseph vs. Portage Northern boys basketball
  • Rogers City vs. Sault Ste. Marie boys basketball
  • Allegan vs. Plainwell boys basketball
  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Hillman boys basketball
  • Ludington vs. Mason County Central boys basketball
  • Atlanta vs. Onaway boys basketball
  • Montrose vs. Millington boys basketball
  • Posen vs. Rogers City boys basketball
  • Allegan vs. Plainwell girls basketball
  • Wolverine vs. Ellsworth girls basketball
  • Harbor Springs vs. Charlevoix girls basketball
  • Posen vs. AuGres-Sims girls basketball
  • Calumet vs. Iron River West Iron County girls basketball
  • Montrose vs. Lake Fenton girls basketball
  • Mio vs. Lincoln Alcona girls basketball
  • Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Comstock Park girls basketball
  • Ludington vs. Mason County Central girls basketball
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's hockey
  • Brownstown-Woodhaven vs. Trenton hockey
  • Straits Area Conference at Rogers City wrestling
  • Oscoda, Standish-Sterling, Caro, Ogemaw Heights boys swimming and diving

Below are highlights from Dec. 3-9. Each week, the MHSAA will assemble a package from broadcasts done through the School Broadcast Program.