#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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Winter Sports Begin at MHSAA.tv

December 6, 2012

Fall is out, and Winter is in -- and already, broadcasts are popping up at MHSAA.tv for four winter sports.

See the listings below for all that's been added by student producers over the last two weeks via the School Broadcast Program.

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

  • Mio vs. Lincoln Alcona girls basketball
  • Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Comstock Park girls basketball
  • Ludington vs. Mason County Central girls basketball
  • St. Ignace vs. Petoskey girls basketball
  • Otsego vs. Plainwell girls basketball
  • Calumet vs. Escanaba girls basketball
  • Ellsworth vs. Charlevoix girls basketball
  • Hillman vs. Onaway girls basketball
  • Posen vs. Rogers City boys basketball
  • Atlanta vs. Onaway boys basketball 
  • Ludington vs. Mason County Central boys basketball
  • Lincoln Alcona vs. Hillman boys basketball
  • Montrose vs. Millington boys basketball
  • Ludington Relays swimming and diving
  • Brownstown-Woodhaven vs. Trenton hockey
  • Detroit Catholic Central vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's hockey
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Calumet hockey

And click on the "upcoming" and "full schedule" tabs on the left menu of the front page to see broadcasts that will be posted in the days and weeks to come.