#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, Highlights and More at MHSAA.tv

September 26, 2012

Each week, MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program supply a number of games in multiple sports from all over Michigan. Have only a few minutes? Then check out our highlight package for last week's offerings at the bottom of these listings.

See those below, plus links to the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game shot last week -- Dearborn Fordson vs. Dearborn.

MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:

  • Fruitport vs. Ludington football
  • Hancock vs. Calumet football
  • Kalkaska vs. Charlevoix football
  • Atlanta vs. AuGres-Sims football
  • Davison vs. Flint Northwestern football
  • Birch Run vs. North Branch football
  • Charlotte vs. Mason football
  • Allegan vs. Plainwell football
  • Montrose vs. Otisville-Lakeville football
  • Rockford vs. East Kentwood football
  • Petoskey vs. Cheboygan football (highlights only)
  • Fife Lake Forest Area vs. Onaway volleyball
  • Kalamazoo Christian vs. Parchment volleyball
  • Alpena vs. Petoskey volleyball
  • Brownstown Woodhaven vs. Wyandotte volleyball
  • Gaylord St. Mary vs. Onaway volleyball
  • East Kentwood vs. Rockford volleyball
  • Parma Western vs. Mason soccer
  • Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1992 Class BB Football Final between Kingsford and Marysville, a 21-12 Marysville win.

FOX: At midnight after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its Football Friday Overtime.

XFINITY: Friday's 35-0 Dearborn Fordson win over Dearborn is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.

Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights, drawn from Birch Run/North Branch, Allegan/Plainwell and Kalkaska/Charlevoix football games and the Onaway/Fife Lake Forest Area volleyball match.