#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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MHSAA Football on your Computer

September 5, 2012

Football games from just about every region of the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula too are among those available for on-demand watching from the School Broadcast Program and MHSAA.tv.

Here's what's on, plus links to MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game this week -- Allen Park vs. Brownstown-Woodhaven.

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

  • West Branch Ogemaw Heights vs. Petoskey
  • North Branch vs. Essexville-Garber
  • Unionville-Sebewaing vs. Montrose
  • Chelsea vs. East Lansing
  • Marquette vs. Cheboygan
  • Onaway vs. Rogers City
  • Negaunee vs. Calumet
  • Hillman vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
  • Also, check out East Lansing/Lansing Eastern volleyball and Muskegon Orchard View/Ludington and East Lansing/Lansing Waverly soccer.

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

XFINITY: Thursday's 43-13 Brownstown-Woodhaven win over Allen Park is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.