#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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Playoffs are Here on MHSAA.tv
October 25, 2012
Boys soccer District games were among exciting additions to MHSAA.tv last week, plus football league championship games between Montrose and Lake Fenton and Watervliet and Lawton.
MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program coverage also included volleyball and swimming and diving events.
See those listings below, plus links to the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game shot last week -- Grosse Ile vs. Riverview -- plus a link to this week's MHSAA Perspective.
MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:
- North Branch vs. Yale football
- Central Lake vs. Rudyard football
- Pickford vs. Onaway football
- East Jordan vs. Charlevoix football
- Mancelona vs. Indian River Inland Lakes football
- Montrose vs. Lake Fenton football
- Gaylord vs. St. Johns football
- Lawton vs. Watervliet football
- Lansing Eastern vs. East Lansing soccer
- Brownstown Woodhaven vs. Dearborn Heights Crestwood soccer
- Sparta vs. Cedar Springs soccer
- Haslett vs. Owosso soccer
- DeWitt vs. East Lansing soccer
- Taylor Truman vs. Trenton soccer
- Lansing Eastern vs. St. Johns soccer
- Haslett vs. East Lansing soccer
- Grand Haven vs. Rockford volleyball
- Posen vs. Hillman volleyball
- Montrose vs. Perry volleyball
- Houghton vs. Calumet volleyball
- Mancelona vs. Onaway volleyball
- Rogers City vs. Cheboygan volleyball
- Lake Linden-Hubbell vs. Calumet volleyball
- Charlevoix vs. Grayling volleyball
- Grand Haven vs. Rockford swimming and diving
- Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1997 Class C Football Final between Decatur and Ravenna, won by Ravenna 48-26 thanks in part to four touchdowns by Willy Rolison.
FOX: At 11:30 p.m. after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its one-hour Football Friday Overtime with highlights from all over the state.
XFINITY: Friday's 21-7 O-K White-deciding win by Grand Rapids Christian over Lowell is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.
MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson discusses the need for values-based school sports programs - Listen
Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights include clips from Menominee/Petoskey, Gaylord/St. Johns and Yale/North Branch football games and the soccer District matchup of Lansing Eastern and St. Johns.