#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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A week in highlights from MHSAA.tv

September 14, 2012

Michigan high schools again loaded up the MHSAA.tv site last week with School Broadcast Program work, and now we present a bonus -- the first-ever highlight reel from student-produced games.

Check that out below, as well as links to a long list of games on MHSAA.tv, the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game shot last week -- Grandville Calvin Christian vs. Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian.

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

  • Montrose vs. Durand football
  • Muskegon vs. Rockford football
  • Wayland vs. Cedar Springs football
  • Pickford vs. Indian River Inland Lakes football
  • Cadillac vs. Petoskey football
  • Flint Northern vs. Davison football
  • Onaway vs. Fife Lake Forest Area football
  • Dowagiac vs. Plainwell football
  • Ellsworth vs. Gaylord St. Mary football
  • Muskegon Orchard View vs. Ludington soccer
  • Lakeview vs. Cedar Springs soccer
  • Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern vs. Rockford soccer
  • Ludington vs. Whitehall soccer
  • Lansing Eastern vs. East Lansing volleyball
  • Bear Lake vs. Grand Traverse Academy volleyball
  • Midland vs. Davison volleyball

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

XFINITY: Friday's 35-3 Grandville Calvin Christian win over NorthPointe Christian is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.

Below: This week's Student Broadcast Program highlights, drawn from Muskegon/Rockford and Gaylord St. Mary/Ellsworth football and Midland/Davison volleyball.