#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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September 19, 2012
Looking for something to watch on your computer screen while you're supposed to be hard at work? We've got 10 football, five soccer and four volleyball games -- plus this week's School Broadcast Program highlights -- all from MHSAA.tv.
Click to see more, plus links to the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game shot last week -- Grand Rapids Northview vs. Holland.
MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:
- Marlette vs Hillman football
- Goodrich vs. Montrose football
- Pickford vs. Rogers City football
- Lansing Eastern vs. East Lansing football
- St. Ignace vs. Indian River Inland Lakes football
- Tawan vs. Lincoln Alcona football
- Owosso vs. St. Johns football
- Montrose vs. Goodrich football
- Kalamazoo Christian vs. Vermontville Maple Valley football
- Central Lake vs. Mancelona football
- East Lansing vs. Dearborn soccer
- East Lansing vs. Portage Northern soccer
- Whittemore-Prescott vs. Lincoln Alcona soccer
- Spring Lake vs. Ludington soccer
- Wyoming Park vs. Comstock Park soccer
- Grand Rapids West Catholic vs. Cedar Springs volleyball
- Allendale vs. Comstock Park volleyball
- Hancock vs. Calumet volleyball
- Traverse City West vs. Petoskey volleyball
- Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1994 Class B Football Final between Detroit Country Day and Belding, a 50-41 Belding win.
FOX: At midnight after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its Football Friday Overtime.
XFINITY: Friday's 55-14 Grand Rapids Northview win over Holland is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.
Below: This week's Student Broadcast Program highlights, drawn from Montrose/Goodrich, Owosso/St. Johns, Maple Valley/Kalamazoo Christian and Marlette/Hillman football games and the Petoskey/Traverse City Central volleyball match.