Tournament Time Hits MHSAA.tv
October 31, 2012
The MHSAA football playoffs kicked off last week, and the Lower Peninsula Soccer and Cross Country Finals highlight this week's lineup. And MHSAA.tv is the place to be for all three, plus weekly events broadcast in conjunction with the School Broadcast Program.
Saturday kicks off a month of live streaming coverage of several MHSAA Championships. At 10 a.m., the Finish Line Camera at the Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals returns, carrying audio commentary throughout each race from reporters around the course; and for the first time, there will also be live streams of the awards ceremonies.
At noon, coverage of the Boys Soccer Finals begins with two games. Two additional games will air at 3 p.m. Audio of all of the Soccer games will be available at MHSAANetwork.com.
Below are links to four District Semifinal football games that aired live on FoxSportsDetroit.com's Prep Zone, plus links to additional events that made debuts on MHSAA.tv, the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime and this week's MHSAA Perspective.
Prep Zone: Click on "MHSAA" tab on MHSAA.tv for last week's Fox Sports Detroit Prep Zone football playoff games:
- Lapeer West vs. DeWitt
- Howell vs. Walled Lake Northern
- Detroit Catholic Central vs. Hartland
Farmington Hills Harrison vs. Fenton
More on MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:
- St. Johns vs. Sault Ste. Marie football
- Traverse City West vs. Rockford football
- Manistique vs. Calumet football
- Montrose vs. Vassar football
- Montrose vs. Otisville-Lakeville volleyball
- AuGres vs. Posen volleyball
FOX: At 11:30 p.m. after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its one-hour Football Friday Overtime with highlights from all over the state.
MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson discusses discusses how emotional responses need to be appropriate in school sports - Listen
#SocialStudies v4.0
February 23, 2012
The best part about #SocialStudies, as I’m sure you’ve all realized by Week 4, is that the sum of its parts make entirely zero sense when combined into one.
There are no easy transitions from flying squirrel wrestling moves to some guy dancing down a professional sporting arena aisle while Bon Jovi blares in the background. Nevertheless – we love compiling the weird and wacky each week.
So, without further ado …
1. You won't see this in Battle Creek, but ...
Last summer, this Chicago-area high schooler stunned an arena with acrobatics not seen on a wrestling mat since… well, never. Yes, we are very aware that this type of "flying squirrel" move is illegal under high school rules – but that doesn’t make it any less cool to watch. Don’t worry: multiple angles shown.
2. Dance Machine, circa 1986
The lip-syncing is fairly horrific. The moves aren’t anything spectacular. And this video is more than three years old. And yet, once you start watching this weird dude at a Celtics game – you cannot stop. His stellar sassy-steppin’ solo starts around 10 seconds in. Ladies and gentlemen: I give you Mr. Jeremy Fry in HD.
3. He is the Hunter; Robichaud, the hunted.
Junior Vincent Hunter of Detroit Consortium knows how to dunk. Here’s a compilation of no less than four of them from their game last week against Dearborn Heights Robichaud. The Cougars won the game, 73-67 – pushing their latest winning streak to four straight.
4. Say it with us: Battle ... of ... the ... Fans!
And finally, it seems amiss to neglect the final day of fan polling for our Battle of The Fans contest. View all five finalist submissions here and click the image below to vote on Facebook for your favorite. Good luck to Frankenmuth, Grand Rapids Christian, Petoskey, Reese and Rockford!
It's MHSAA tournament time, which should reveal a bevy of video highlights and social media madness as we finish up February and fly full bore into March.
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