#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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Games Galore highlight MHSAA.tv
October 10, 2012
The fall season is winding down, but the opposite is true for MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program, which produced 28 events last week covering a multitude of teams from all over Michigan.
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 Pointe North vs. Grosse Pointe South -- plus a link to this week's MHSAA Perspective.
MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:
- Atlanta vs. Hillman football
- L'Anse vs. Calumet football
- Rudyard vs. Rogers City football
- Sault Ste. Marie vs. Cheboygan football
- Traverse City West vs. Petoskey football
- AuGres vs. Mio football
- Manton vs. Lincoln Alcona football
- Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Onaway football
- Parma Western vs. Mason football
- Lansing Sexton vs. East Lansing football
- Flint Southwestern vs. Davison football
- Pellston vs. Indian River Indian Lakes football
- Montrose vs. Flint Beecher football
- St. Johns vs. Mason swimming and diving
- Oscoda vs. Lincoln Alcona volleyball
- Taylor Truman vs. Trenton volleyball
- Kalamazoo Christian vs. Galesburg-Augusta volleyball
- Davison vs. Flint Powers Catholic volleyball
- Montrose vs. Goodrich volleyball
- Grand Ledge vs. East Lansing volleyball
- Brownstown Woodhaven vs. Allen Park volleyball
- Spring Lake vs. Ludington volleyball
- Alanson vs. Ellsworth volleyball
- Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian vs. Cheboygan soccer
- Allen Park vs. Brownstown Woodhaven soccer
- Cheboygan vs. Roscommon soccer
- Oscoda vs. Lincoln Alcona soccer
- Mason vs. Jackson Lumen Christi soccer
- Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1994 Class A Boys Soccer Final between Canton and Warren DeLaSalle, won in sudden-death overtime by Canton, 1-0.
FOX: At midnight after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its Football Friday Overtime. Last week, the show was expanded to an hour, with highlights from 13 games.
XFINITY: Friday's 17-15 Grosse Pointe South win over Grosse Pointe North is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.
MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson gives his take not on the NFL replacement officials, but rather, on how treatment of them by players and coaches set a poor example for those at the high school level - Listen
Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights, drawn from the L'Anse at Calumet, Flint Southwestern at Davison and Lansing Sexton at East Lansing football games, and a volleyball match between Montrose and Goodrich.