One reason many Americans can’t take the World Cup too seriously:
Update from a reader:
I appreciated today’s MHB because I think Neymar is the perfect example. Here is Neymar and his various dives. Here is Neymar and his real injury. When a player is acting, he rolls around on the ground and makes a spectacle of himself. When he is truly hurt, he lies still and tries to minimize the pain.
But another reader points to a video compilation “from the American sport with just as much flopping as soccer”:
The Dish 