Tag Archives: flopping
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Julio Borbon: Decent Ballplayer, Terrible Actor (Video + GIF)
The flopping epidemic has already spread from soccer to hockey and basketball. In fact, it got so bad in basketball that the NBA now fines players for flopping. Now it appears this flopping business has even spread to baseball. However, ballplayers are still new to the flopping game, so they have yet to hone their [...]
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Chris Paul’s Flop Against the Kings is an Embarrassment to Basketball (Video)
Lob City? More like Flop City! Chris Paul may be the best point guard in the NBA at the moment, but his flop during last night’s loss to the Sacramento Kings can only be described as a travesty to the game of basketball. It’s one thing to embellish contact. But Paul wasn’t even contacted by [...]
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21 Ridiculous Hockey Dive GIFs
In case you haven’t notice, there is an epidemic sweeping the sports world. It’s got a few different names depending on what sport you’re talking about, but the problem is the same. I am talking, of course, about diving or flopping. What seems to have started in soccer quite noticeably crept into basketball. Now even [...]
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Jose Mourinho Loses It After Cristiano Ronaldo’s Dive Goes Uncalled (Video)
Anyone who follows soccer even a little bit knows that Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest sports floppers in the world today. As talented and electrifying as the guy can be, all you have to do is look at him funny and he’ll fall over and grab his shins. Well, guess what? The referees? [...]
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Attempted Kick-To-The-Groin Results In Another Ridiculous Soccer Dive (Video)
Here’s the thing with diving, or flopping, or whatever you want to call this pandemic in the world of sports: you’ve got to do it instantly, the very moment something happens. If you wait a full two seconds, nobody’s going to buy it. On Wednesday night, Argentinian soccer player Alejandro Donatti found this out the [...]
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An Epic Flop And A Nasty Nut Shot From The Same CFL Game (Videos)
Flopping, it seems, is becoming a pandemic in the world of sports. Soccer players, of course, have been diving all over the field for years, and we just laughed at them. However, it turns out that flopping is contagious, and has made it’s way to North America. First the basketball players started flopping. Then the [...]
