Diving

I've watched my last World Cup game.  I'm serious.  Last night's Italy-Australia game was a complete travesty with an Italian player diving and being awarded a penalty kick with 12 seconds left in regulation and the score tied 0-0.  Game over.  The worst part of it was the stupid ESPN/ABC commentator complimenting the Italian guy for fooling the referee.  Anytime you start celebrating fraud in any kind of sport, it's time for some serious reform.  Soccer in its basic form is a beautiful game, but this is the first World Cup where I've watched a decent amount of games (due to the friendly European time zone), and I am so sick of all these world-class players falling down just to get a penalty call.  Don't even get me started on Portugal-Netherlands.  You can't even say it's just the bad habits of European players.  Witness the Ghana-USA debacle where the Ghanaians were eating grass every chance they got.  At least I can be proud of the Korean team.  Sure, they were falling down all over the place too, but that's just cuz they're small and feeble.  It wasn't intentional.  I'm telling ya, I am done with soccer.