Flopping is what it's cracked up to be - and part of our sports culture

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

I have a confession to make. I have been guilty of flopping.

Yes, I know. It’s hard to believe.

It happened during junior varsity basketball my sophomore year in high school. We were playing at Harrington, leading, and during a change in possession late in the first half my coach Jerry Price was yelling at us for someone to stop the ball — basketball code for “someone please guard the guy dribbling the ball up court.”

The guards who should have been doing it were too busy running up court to get under the basket. Why, I don’t know because as one of the taller players on...