PROVO, Utah -- A New Mexico soccer player has become an Internet celebrity for the wrong reasons.
Junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended Friday for her infractions the day before during a 1-0 loss to BYU in a Mountain West Conference semifinal. Lambert is seen in video from the game throwing elbows, colliding with several players and then yanking the ponytail of a BYU player who went crashing to the ground.
"My actions were uncalled for," Lambert said in a statement released by New Mexico. "I let my emotions get the best of me in a heated situation."
Lambert's actions brought unprecedented -- and unwanted -- attention to the Mountain West women's soccer tournament.
I chose my title to be ironic. What's interesting about this news report at CBS Sportsline is the comments made to it. Anytime a black athlete does something like this, there are dozens of posters commenting on how "you can take the "person" out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the "person" - and you know what word I'm using the euphemism of person for...there's also a lot of use of the n-word, and not in a complimentary way.
But Elizabeth Lambert gives people kidney punches and pulls a girl down by her ponytail, and the only thing the posters have to say is jokes about now people will have a reason to watch women's soccer...they want to see a catfight.
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