disgusting!

I love the line “Liz is a quality student-athlete…” by Coach Vela. What, she’s quality except for when she’s punching opponents or pulling their hair? OJ was a great husband, too, you know, when he wasn’t punching Nicole or brandishing knives.

What a Class act! Saying “I’m sorry” just won’t get it. There is too much violence in general to permit this kind of behavior. Where are the criminal charges?

BYU’s #7 elbowed Liz with a closed fist (violent conduct justifying a red card). Liz retaliated in kind. BYU’s #21 has a handful of Liz’s shorts (unsporting behavior justifying a caution) The hair pull was again in retaliation. If the referee team is not going to control the game then in self defense a player need to send a message that if you are going to cheat there will be a price to pay. The cheating by Kassidy Shumway and Carlee Payne is more subtle but equally as outrageous. The referee team sets the tone and since they permitted this type of play the referee team of Joe Pimentel, Mark Sackett, Bill Debatty and Albert Montalvo should receive equal condemnation.

“A former Lobo soccer player, who played with Lambert and asked to remain nameless, said that the incidents have been over-hyped, and the majority of people don’t understand the nature of soccer.”

Mario AND Editors,

This is women’s college soccer – not the Pentagon.

Either man up and attribute all your sources by name or don’t print the material at all. You’re not Bobby Woodward or Carl Bernstein. This isn’t 1973. Dirty Liz Lambert is not Tricky Dick Nixon.

What are they teaching you kids in New Mexico about journalism? Where is the faculty? Where are the advisers? Where, oh, where are the journalistic ethics?

her first instance of physical abuse? what a joke – she should be banned from collegiate playing and coaching for life.

Kim—You’re an idiot. There’s a huge difference in dirty play. Backing into an opponent and grabbing some jersey are one thing. Throwing punches, pulling hair, and intentionally inflicting harm are completely different. I played D-1 soccer all through college and sometimes it got a little rough, but this is a little out of hand. You’d know this if you’d ever played.

I hope that everyone realizes that it wasn’t just on Youtube or local news, it was on the Today Show as well. People need to think about their actions, whether in retaliation to something or not.

I’ve seen this on all the networks. Class act all the way. From the coaching to the reffing. It further supports my theory that ugly women are a plague on society. We must deal with this problem before the uglies unite.

lambert and the coach should be banned from soccer for life

Let’s have the same crew that did such an outstanding job with coach Lo9xsley handle this problem. If Krebs could “ whitewash” Loxsley( With schmidly being his usual incompetent self), we should be able to have this young lady selected as the UNM Female Athlete of the Year.

“I don’t want to give away any tricks of the trade,” the former Lobo said. “But I think when you are out there you think ‘if the refs don’t see me, it’s not going to be a problem.’ And now the media caught her for it, and now she is paying for it.”

What more needs to be said? This is an amoral girl’s soccer team.

I think her punishment should be pretty harsh because I was in Nevada this weekend and their local news station could not get enough of this story. It ran every couple of hours on two national sports channels and I saw it on Good Morning America. What a way for our school to be represented. Why didn’t the coach say anything? The coach should have done something this cannot all be the fault of the refs blindspots.

So is this the first time this player has gone off like this? It’s hard to imagine so. I think a thorough video review of all games she’s been involved in is appropriate. Is she the only member of the team playing this dirty?

Elizabeth Lambert has a bright future in roller derby!

This is a perfect example of a player that lacks skills has to resort to physical means.
I am glad to see that she has been suspended and should be removed permanently.
It is players like this that send a bad message to younger players and kids who are learning when they see her MULTIPLE actions.
When you have to punch,pull hair,and slide tackle players legs to get to the ball that shows lack of skills!!
And this applies to any player who has to resort to such tactics to get the ball.
Hair pulling I thought was faded out in elementary school

Wow, women’s soccer just became a whole lot more interesting for me!

Liz Lambert is playing this way because Kit Vela wants it that way. If Liz isn’t the thug, Kit will put someone in who will. Someone needs to interview a lot ot past players and parents of players if they wnat the truth. This all started at the top. Let’ see if UNM has what it takes to find out the truth

Lambert should be taken off the team for her violent actions. I realize that soccer is a though sport but if she wanted to throw punches and pull hair she should sighn up for the catfighting leauge. Wheather it’s in the nature of the sport or not this type of behavior is unacceptable for a UNM athlete. (or coach!)

Although I agree that her actions were COMPLETELY uncalled for, I have to say that Krebs is a hypocrite. He covered for the men’s football coach, who punched and choked another coach, then he says, “Liz’s conduct on the field against BYU was completely inappropriate,” Krebs said in a statement. “There is no way to defend her actions.” How were you able to defend the football coach’s actions, Mr. Krebs? It’s not like he’s a good coach or anything. Look at your football record! I think that’s a pretty good indication of the competence of you and your co-conspirators. They’re idiots if they keep paying you your overpriced salaries while students are having to share a room with 3 people because UNM spends their money on the corrupt athletics program. Pathetic.

I propose a cage fight. Locksley versus Lambert.

I just saw the report on ABC news. If that were my daughter that she did that too, I think I would come unglued and do something that would put me in jail. However, doing so would make me just as worthless as this player.

This individual is not a “… a quality student-athlete …” as described by the coach. She should be suspended for life from collegiate soccer. God forbid if this person ever made it to a world stage representing the USA in soccer. I wonder what some of the Euro hooligans would do if she did this to one of their players.

Lambert needs to be banned from the game for life…people like this grow up to be serial killers.

My Daughter is being highly recruited by a lot of Div I schools. Ms Lamberts actions has confirmed to us that New Mexico will definately be one of the schools that will be crossed out of our list. We are on a little island in the pacific thank you for that Ms Lambert for showing what type of program allows that type of actions to go with minimal punishments as a suspension.

To condemn Ms Lambert to a lifetime ban from the soccer team would be a travesty. I am not saying what she did was right in any manner, but take a good look at colleciate sports in general, eye gouging in football,deliberately trying to take someones knees out,taking down someone while in mid air attempting to score a basket. This stuff happens in every level of sports. However in this day and age of instant world wide media, we need to be on the up and up in whatever we do and say. Ms Lambert acted inappropriately and should receive some sort of suspension, not a life sentence…. Blame it on a society who lives to see this sort of thing in sports, but then will quickly turn on the perpertrator after the event.

Coach Kit Vela assesses Ms. Lambert as “a quality student-athlete”. If this is how she feels, it sounds like the problem stems from the coaching staff.

I’m sure she’ll state a male coach wouldn’t take any heat for her comments, that’s how she’ll get away with keeping her job or she’ll sue.

Yay, UNM makes the national news for sports violence twice within a short span of time! Well, we may suck at actually playing the games, but we can at least be known as the school where we like to throw down. Maybe we’ll be the first to allow coaches and players to pack heat during games. Our prospects can only improve from this.

Can’t sack the opposing QB? See how the offensive line will perform once you show them that you’ve got a 9mm on you. Soccer ball’s going a bit wide on goal? Shoot it in flight and change it’s course right into the goal!

“ Bam.”

GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!

DO NOT LET THIS horrendous excuse for a human being back on the field. Do not let her play anymore. She should be banned. She is disgusting. Ever heard of good sportsmanship? Obviously she hasn’t. BAN HER!!! She doesn’t deserve to play. Shame on her.

Rockwood says it’s “the officials’ job”— “they set the tone.”

This is the same attitude espoused by the esteemed billionaires on Wall Street: Somehow rules don’t exist unless someone is enforcing them. Is there no moral code guiding bankers or NMU/BYU soccer players to abide by rules whether or not they expect to get caught? Apparently if rules are broken, it isn’t the fault of the corrupt individual who broke the rule, but of whatever policing body allowed the rule to be broken.

Pathetic. Good to know what they’re teaching the student body at BYU and NMU these days. Lots of hope for the future. Win at any cost. Get away with everything they let you.

Im tired of all you whinning ass liberals. Thats the problem these days anybody can say what they want and not have to worrie about the consequences. In the old days you had to watch what you say or get your ass kicked. BYU are some talking trash assholes and deserved to get THERE ASS KICKED. Elizabeth Lambert I applaud you. GO LOBOS

Elizabeth Lambert has shown America and the entire world what her character is made up of! We don’t want to see her again in sports – EVER!! I can’t imagine anyone wanting her to work for them either – she is a cheater and a liar and a sneak! Where were the officals anyway? Dump her from sports and the university!! Let her go out and be with the people that act just like she does – they can beat her up.

This person should NEVER be aloud on a sports field ever.
I have been invoved in sports of all kind including 2 Olympic teams and NEVER in my life have i ever seen such an act of dirtyplay in my life
Where was the Coach???
Why would he allow his plyer to act this way.
Where were the ref’s??
Why did they not stop it at the first cheap shot??
I really feel she should be charged with Aggravated assult.
Maybe some jail time would do her some good.
She needs anger counseling and a good kick in the ass.
I have never seen a guy do tis in a game because he would not get away with it.
If hit the guy would get up and knock him on his ass but the girls dont do that.

I played soccer against Elizabeth Lambert when we were both 5 years old. She pulled my ponytail the first time I played against her, but I tricked her the next time, I cut the dang thing off! We became best friends after that, but I always knew she would grow up to be a hair-puller.

Soccer needs more officials. I know stuff like this goes on in high school games, too. Kids receive intentional injuries all the time. Some are even permanent.
I have a 6-year-old who just started playing soccer and she loves it. I’m already scared that she may get taken out by a cheap shot like Lambert’s one day. These kids do it because they hardly ever get caught. There aren’t enough officials. If the TV cameras weren’t there, no one would be talking about this. Put one set of eyes on each player if you have to.

I can’t believe that Lambert is trying to act like she just lost her cool during the game. A person that can do the things she did and act as cool as she did while committing the act has obviously done things like that before. She should be banned from playing any sport for good. She is just apologetic because she got caught and deserves no pity. I hope the players she attacked press charges against her if they are allowed to.

While it’s easy to paint Liz as some brutal soccer psycho loose cannon hell-bent on wreaking havoc on all who cross her path, she deserves to be seen as a fierce competitor looking for an advantage. Is Elizabeth just a sweet little misunderstood darling whose performance was blown out of proportion? Absolutely not! She gave back exactly what she got from the other side. If you’re going to blame anyone, blame those ignorant dipsticks called officials! If you’re still looking for fodder, blame coach Kit Vela and her husband (who’s her assistant.)

Before she hit one in the back, that girl elbowed Lambert in the chest. And if you look carefully, right before the hair pull, the other girl intentionally reached back – without turning around – and yanked Lambert’s shorts up at the front, clearly meant to inflict pain. That looked like a well practiced and calculated move, perhaps one that she’s been able to use effectively in the past without being seen.

Incidentally, money can’t buy what Elizabeth Lambert’s done for women’s soccer. I’ve developed a whole new interest in it myself. In fact, if I ever have any kids, I’m going to pay their way to the Liz Lam Lobo Soccer Camp. You go girl. Carpe diem.

Liz Lamert is freakin crazy!!!!! I have seen my share D1 soccer games, and most were mens D1, and they play dirty, but nothing like this girl did.She was pissed off that BYU was kicking their butts and she didnt like that, poor baby, even bigger LOSER!!!!!! She should not be aloud to continue playing soccer at any level and if she had a scharlosip,it should be taken away. I know thats harsh, but someone better than her probly deserved it more.

This goes beyond the “nature of soccer play”. Any intelligent person knows that! This wasn’t some horse play between the teams. This was a senseless and intentionally violent act that could have resulted in paralysis or even death for the BYU player.Lambert could have broken her neck!I’m surprised she didn’t face a harsher punishment than the suspension. I’m a police officer and had she done that to my daughter, she would have left that game handcuffs

This was an assault plain and simple. I think Ms. Lambert should be suspended from “any and all” sports related activities until she graduates.

Even if you sickly LIKED the violence,(and give her weak excuses for it) what kind of cowardly conduct is attacking a girl from BEHIND when you think nobody’s looking.

Lambert, Not one goal, really? maybe you should do something your actually good at. MMA? Do THEY even allow hair pulling?

I think she was recruited by Locksley!!!

The entire sport of women’s soccer from HS to College needs to be investigated based on this interview and my personal experience watching HS girls soccer. Refs should have no tolerance for this type of play at the amateur level. If there need to be additional refs off the field to watch for this type of behavior, then that needs to be done too. A message needs to be sent that soccer is not hockey or rugby.

SGK, hopefully you wont have any kids. And if you do, keep the violence out of soccer. If you want your kids to do this, put them in fight club. “looking for an advantage”… you have lost your way….

While it would appear that Liz Lambert is the villan in this play, if one watches closely, the other side is giving as good as they got, too! Let’s just say that D1 athletics is very competative and if you want to play at that level, you must expect that everything will not be completely nice-nice and friendly. The people calling for criminal charges are idiots. This was a sporting contest, in a contact sport, at a high level. Let’s face it, 80% of the hits on the field in an NFL or NHL game would result in charges of some type if you did them on the street. But this isn’t the street. You enter the arena knowing that the rules are different inside those boundaries than those outside in the “normal” world. Grow up. Sometimes it is ugly. If you don’t like it, look in the mirror at the society that we have created.

Excellent article, Mario. To the blowhard with the “oh, attribute your sources or don’t use them” crack: What planet do you live on, jowl flap? Looky here. Didn’t you see all of that violence? Don’t you think that might just occur off the field, too, if another player were to come forward and talk about this?

Here’s your ridiculous quote: ““A former Lobo soccer player, who played with Lambert and asked to remain nameless, said that the incidents have been over-hyped, and the majority of people don’t understand the nature of soccer.”

Mario AND Editors,

This is women’s college soccer – not the Pentagon.

Either man up and attribute all your sources by name or don’t print the material at all. You’re not Bobby Woodward or Carl Bernstein. This isn’t 1973. Dirty Liz Lambert is not Tricky Dick Nixon.

What are they teaching you kids in New Mexico about journalism? Where is the faculty? Where are the advisers? Where, oh, where are the journalistic ethics?”

Man up on this, jack weed. You don’t know diddly. Ths former player wants to comment and wants to expose this garbage without getting beaten up herself.

‘Bout blasted time. But here’s you, “oh, man up” before you go a prancing away.

What do you know about journalistic ethics? Look, stop watching Fox News and why don’t YOU man up, drivel head?

This is a part of socceras it is in any competitive sport. You see rough play at the club level, the high school level, and college level.Pushing,punching, hair pulling and uniform pulling are all part of the game. My son has played soccer for years and has been beat on kicked and had all sorts of things done to him. I didn’t like it at the time but in turn he also dished out the same to other players. It is called intimidation. If you get the bluff on the other player you win. They will think twice before they mess with you. Is it right I don,t know. In the world cup a few years back we saw Zidan of France head butted an opposition player to the ground. The opposing player was harassing Zidan and pushed him into the head butting incident. Zidan got a red card and was ejected. Zidan’s team lost the World Cup.Inntimidation works in sports. You push a player on the oppossing team until they take a swing or just avoid you. If they take a swing at you they usually get caught and get the red or yellow card.

What is being overlooked is the actions of the BYU players that are just as ugly and as gulity! If you want to dish it out then be ready to get it back.

To say the least Lambert is the joke of the nation for a few days or weeks. She acted like a snake and took how she was raised to the field…the end.

With all do respect Dennis BYU was not that bad…they were aggressive but did not take it to far. Lambert did and she got off easy.

Have a good day and tomorrow Happy Vetern’s Day

Ms Lambert plays at the college level. Her actions are excepted in soccer at that level. The thing is you don’t get caught by the camera. Chances are the same type of play was used by the other team and their coaches support this type of play. You just don’t get caught. If a player is not out on the field stepping on toes, they aren’t playing hard enough. MS.Lambert is not a terrible person but the girl who got her hair pulled is a very good actress. Over acting is also a part of soccer. Ms. Lambert received her suspension because of the media coverage, not because she did anything wrong. No one was hurt, it looked much worse than it was. It’s people who know nothing about soccer who are raising the stink.

Oh, it’s not just national. No, now UNM has been made a fool of on BBC’s national news. I know, because I was just happily watching the news over here when they showed that story. So now all my friends know the name of UNM when I mention it, but it’s because some thug soccer player couldn’t control herself and play a clean game. Why haven’t they taken her scholarship or something yet? As far as I’m concerned, she lost the right to that scholarship when she made herself, her team, and her school a laughingstock. Our athletes are supposed to represent our school to everyone who goes to their games or watches them on TV. I think it’s a disgrace that she’s being let off with a mere suspension, when she should be kicked off the team entirely.

I’d hit that…I mean wouldn’t you…she’s hot

WOuld love it if Liz would put on a strapon and punish me.That would be hot!!!!

Not since Don Imus made a few people aware that there was a women’s NCAA Basketball tournament has anyone raised the awareness of that waste of University Money they call Title IX. Usually public sentiment to women’s NCAA sports ranges from total lack of interest to mild indifference. Congrats to Liz for making a few folks aware. It’s the only way it will happen.

Elizabeth Lambert is another low life thug like Tonya Harding… and this is just the beginning for her.

lambert will be in prison in a few years. she’ll probably stab her boyfriend when he cheats on her. she’ll love prison.
she’ll be the number one female thug in prison. breaking off shivs and stabbing whoever messes w/ her.
she should get a reality tv show. they can call it thug life or crazy bitch

Was it wrong to be totally aroused by all that nonsense…:) Punish me girly!

Soccer Dad… Are you kidding me? Acting? She got ripped off her feet! I have played soccer from the age of 5. Suttle cheaps shots are part of the game but this was too far. My very last game in high school we were playing the #1 team in the league and I was stuck man to man guarding the leading goal scorer of the league. I held him to no goals and was inside his head. After clearing the ball from him on one play he turned and threw a vicious elbow into my nose resulting in a broken nose and surgery. Is that allowed? No. What did I do? I kept playing the game blood and all because I was not about to let him get the best of me and not once did I cheap shot him. Even when my coach was furious and almost fought their coach I just said it was ok. Our season was done and they had the playoffs and I told them good luck. Little scuffles here and there are fine, but there is a line and it was crossed.

why is that on the unm website, under athletics and women’s soccer..the info on lambert has been removied. i’m takling about the hometwon and last school? is it that she didn’t go to high school and grew up in a jungle with wild animals?

With all this violence it looks like UNM is striving to be the LA Raiders of collegiate sports.

Yes soccer Dad Zidan did head butt the French player and was red carded, but he was fined a big sum of money to.
And you are such a great fan of the game tell me who he is playing for now?
She cross the line you no it and so do I and if you don’t think she did you no nothing about the game.
Soccer is about skill not intimidation any bully can intimidate people but skilled soccer players win.
I hope you son is one of the skilled players because you are the bully the way you think it should be played if you think kicking hair pulling and cheap shots in the back is not the game you need to take a class on sportsmanship BY THE WAY are you Lambert’s DAD.

To those of you that think her actions were justified…you’re as nutty as the nut-job at Fort Hood. A small elbow jab, and shorts tug, in no way justify Lambert’s actions. Just a hint Liz, if you see camera’s at the field, chances are there might be something caught on tape that day. She should forfeit her scholarship…if she has one.

I personally don’t believe she should be banned for life, but her image for the rest of her life will be Tonya Harding-esqe unfortunately. I hope she has enough self-confidence to lead a positive life after soccer and school. The other thing to remember is that she’s now gonna be a target for a real cheap shot by some other thug…that won’t get caught on camera.

The first sweet little “victim” was throwing around elbows and the second “victim” was holding the defender by her shorts before taking that drama-queen swan dive to draw the penalty.

Elizabeth is not the worst soccer player, just a tough one. And maybe just a little bit too pissed off over the Utes’ shenanigans.

Lambert is the best thing to happen to UNM soccer. Why don’t you let her play football?

If everybody who acted like this was banned from playing football (soccer if you prefer) there would be a lot less people playing every week.

Go and watch any amateur match. Things like this happen all the time. Perhaps some of the over-reaction is because it’s not expected to see female players act in the same way as some of their male counterparts?

I am not condoning her actions, they should have been spotted by the officials and dealt with. But ban her for life?! Has nobody ever made mistakes before? Isn’t learning part of growing up?

Clearly you didn’t watch the footage, or game, nor are you a educated soccer person. UNM didn’t play the Utes that day. The events after the shorts got tugged, led to the hair-pull. There was no penalty on the play because the officials missed it…like all the other fouls on the footage.

You are an embarrassment to UNM even more than the athletes and coaches that represent your state and school

I was back in Washington, DC when someone came up to me, chiding me about “UNM Dirty Soccer Play”…apparently it’s coast-to-coast now. I have been around long enough to hear how Coach Kit Vela “mentors”…it is an abomination. If it wasn’t for the horrible leadership of her and her husband, players like Lambert would not be making complete buffoons of themselves and their entire school. Kit has been known to tolerate this type of behavior both in practice and during gameplay. TAKE A LOOK AT VELA’S pathetic comments after the game…absolutely no remorse for the embarrassing episode. If the coach knew how to train and lead, players would be caught on tape making sick goals and defending the net like pros…something UNM could be PROUD of, not ASHAMED of.

VELA needs to go!

This pretty much sums it up accurately,imho:

www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/10/crimesider/entry5601480.shtml

Hang on a minute here!!! In no way am i condoning her actions but you are all saying that she should be banned for life etc etc and she should know better playing for a college!! I think everyone should take a good long hard look at our professional players! how many people can hold up their hands and say they have never seen a professional player pull a dirty and violent act….. very few people i would say! don’t you all think that it is them we should be concentrating on rather than a simple college player with PMT! our kids watch professionals more and learn from them so i would be attacking them and calling for their heads primarily before a college player

It’s all in the way one is raised. I wonder if her parents are proud. I would be mortified. There is no call for this type of behavior.

Watching the video, it’s clear that Lambert is assaulted by the other player first, who forcibly jams an elbow into her solar plexus (a pretty nasty tactic designed to “wind” the other player).

I’m not surprised it escalated from there – Lambert’s response is over-the-top but if you’re going to act holier-than-thou and demand Lambert is hung, drawn and quartered, you should also punish the other player for her initial assault – which is as much against the rules as Lambert’s extreme reaction.

If you’re unfamiliar with the practice of “diving” in soccer (rolling around the floor as if you’ve been eviscerated after the slightest imagined contact, so that you win a penalty for your team), you should also judge the reaction of the floored player with a bit of skepticism.

Sure, Lambert’s reaction is over-zealous, but in the adrenaline-filled atmosphere of competitive sport, who’s to know what you’d do after receiving a sharp little elbow jammed into your breathing muscles ?

Come on Ean get a grip So tell me how painful it was when the other player had her by the shorts and she dragged her to the ground by her hair?There is no room in the game for that kind of play if she is aloud to keep this up she is going to really hurt some one.
If that was done in the EPL if you no what that is she would have been band for 5 or 6 games and fined a large sum of money.
This Lambert is not a soccer player she is a bully and has no sportsmanship at all.

The MMA would love to have her…

I like how most of this outrage is coming from people that have never even touched a soccer ball, you have no room to comment.
STFU and go back to your pathetic lives.
Leave Elizabeth Lambert alone!! lol

Was Kassidy injured in the hair pulling?

Elizabeth’s hair-pulling was completely out of line. She could have seriously injured the other player, even paralyzed her for life.

But, we don’t need to make threats against her. She should be kicked off the Lobo team and any sports scholarships she might have taken away.

Kick her off the Lobo team, forbid her from joining other college teams, then leave her alone…

Elizabeth Lambert is a sick person who has stained UNM’s reputation for a long time to come. She should not be suspended but expelled from the University of New Mexico. Then she needs to undergo counseling for a long time before she winds up killing someone. She should be charged with assault for her actions.

Anyone who portrays this as being an isolated incident needs to return from Wonderland. As soon as the media starts digging up more about Lambert’s background, they will undoubtedly uncover more of her violent history. Then the UNM sports administrators will be held accountable as they well should be.

Gross!

It’s hard for me to understand the local and national outcry against Lambert vs the complete lack of action on the part of UNM regarding the Locksley matter, which, we are now told, is no longer be a topic of conversation.

UNM lacks leadership on all fronts.

When this is all said and done, Lambert will be a celebrity making celebrity $$$ on some reality show.

What’s the girl’s name that she kicked in the face was it Payne or Shumway or another girl?

Elizabeth Lambert has done more to bring attention to women’s soccer than anything anyone had ever done in the last 50 years.

All of you guys that are calling her “hot”, or wondering how she is in bed, are aspiring eunuchs.

This woman is a disgrace to the breed and should be properly punished. I would like to see her in the octagon or on tv getting her teeth smashed out by some washed up celeb like she will most likely become.Get some manhood and face these girls and don’t be a coward,you chicken!!

The reason players trash talk is to get into another’s head. BYU’s occasional actions were that. On any given day on any sport at any level it happens. The difference is how a player reacts. I feel “0” sympathy for Elizabeth Lambert she got owned. She is not a victim. Neither she or her coach scouted well. BYU probably did and figured milking her goat would get to snap or the players simply figured they could get to her. THERE IS NO EXCUSING HER BEHAVIOR PERIOD. Just like having an everyday argument with someone who has a short trigger and gives you the right ammunition. It takes very little to sets them off. Her coach should have pulled aside and coached her. Her coach should have another step up as the enforcer —- THAT’s SPORTS, strategy, coaching —- it is why we watch. Sports are a chess game on many many levels including what you can get away with. Elizabeth Lambert’s actions are the product of a fragile player. One that like being a thug and not being challenged. She only has to blame herself. her coach should be fired for not coaching.

watch the video, the first girl hit her and the second girl gave her a melvin so they both deserved it. Her behavior is how the game is played, anyone who has ever played or watched soccer knows this.

November 11 at 9:12 PM
by andrew

watch the video, the first girl hit her and the second girl gave her a melvin so they both deserved it. Her behavior is how the game is played, anyone who has ever played or watched soccer knows this.

—- so it is a conspiracy that includes CNN to ESPN, nationally and internationally. Some how everyday play made the international news because some how ESPN knew UNM and Elizabeth Lambert was playing then they called every network and set up a You Tube site and framed her.

So its a frame up. Today : people were killed (sadly, more important, rip), people lost their jobs, the economy sucked, a species died, etc.

and somehow this became an issue above it all because the media had nothing to do. Hell the very fact this blog is here mean that even UNM is in the great frame up of Elizabeth Lambert 2009!

Ian, you’re blind & ignorant!

If you look closely at the video you can see that Lambert has ahold of the BYU players hair BEFORE she her shorts were tugged. Lambert not only instigated the hair pull incident by grabbing the pony tail BEFORE the shorts tug (that is how Lambert reacts so quickly to the shorts tug, she ALREADY has ahold of her hair) but Lambert swung and hit BYU players numerous times with a closed fist. Not to mention the leg tackle by Lambert that had no chance whatsover of getting the ball.

Lambert is out of control, undisciplined, and a pathetic excuse for a footballer.

I wish Tim Jackie, Adam, Kevin, Joan and especially EEK777 weren’t so cowardly and put their real full names on here when bashing a 21 one year old young lady who has apologized for something she did that got out of hand.

I personally think the BYU girls had it coming and if I was the NCAA I would not be going after the her, the players or the couches but the referees for do a piss poor job.

Has anyone read her bio? She is a QUALITY athlete who is a VERY talented soccer player.

Why won’t gutless ESPN who started this who story play the whole game and all the views form the cameras? Then you can judge not only her but the rest of the people involved.

Until the shut up!

Andre…Are you serious? How many different camera views do you need? Tyson apologized for eating Evander’s ear, but he still did IT. Professional athletes have a completely lower level of behavior and responsibility. Can you think of another college athlete that had done something as horrible as what she did? I can’t and I watch a lot of sports.

Lambert represents and entire university. She may very well be a very good student…but that doesn’t mean she gets a free pass after the apology. There is no amount of taunting, elbow jabbing, and short tugging that can ever warrant the punches she threw, and the hair she pulled.

She played with the intent to cause harm…and that is a BIG problem for a student athlete.

You know, if Ms. Lambert had any marketing savvy she’d contact the makers of MIDOL and offer her services as spokeswoman.

Does she have an agent? She could be the national poster girl for PMS. I mean, why not turn this into something positive?

I see dollar signs!

i’d like to see lambert do some girl girl porn.
i think she would be great w/ a strap on.
she’d really give it to the other girls
hard…

Eugenio:

“…ass liberals”

How can this athlete problem have anything to do with politics? Just like a neocon troll to use any thread on any subject to post your right-wing rants.

Btw, it’s *whining ass, not “whinning.” And it should be “THEIR ass kicked,’ not “there.”

Since you brought it up, I thought you “conservatives” were about Christianity, “morality,” values and personal responsibility. Since Reagan and the Moral Majority, anyway. So, regarding this soccer player — where her actions in any way “christian” or “moral?” Who would Jesus injure and knock down?

Yes, my own post had a grammar error.

Correction: “WERE her actions…”

How will UNM administrators spin this a year from now?
2010 UNM Marketing flash: “In 2009, UNM athletics made remarkable progress and received twice as much publicity as any other university in the world”.

That’s how UNM Provost Ortega and Vice-Provost Goering spun UNM’s awful Hispanic graduation rates. In Sept. Ortega proclaimed in the Albuquerque Journal that UNM is graduating Hispanics at twice the national rate when in fact UNM graduates Hispanics at a rate below the national Hispanic graduation rate. UNM: 42%, USA: 49%, according to the US Dept of Education.

Sports fans, add graduation rates to the list of “games” UNM plays. UNM (and its student body) is losing big time in the national competition.

Regarding the recent posts, I would be considered “liberal” by Hannity/Limbaugh/Savage terms, so that’s the disclaimer before I give my two cents.

As for the Lambert, I think that talking about her for two days after the game was plenty. She’s had a good deal of supporters, non-supporters, and people in the middle (supported her but not her actions). Most people obviously seemed in the middle.

However, whatever you had to say about Lambert, people should not even be mentioning her name a couple of days after that game. Compared to how emotional (and stupid) some people got, it’s trivial.
Needless to say, Lambert is not an idiot – she understood what she did was not inappropriate. So whether you support her actions or not, she’s already stated her view on what happened.

My conclusion on the Lambert topic is this: Most people disapprove of her actions. However, other people in the discussion want to make it a point that dirty play is common in sports. What “disapprovers” fail to mention is that. What the “there’s always dirty play” folks fail to mention is that violence is still wrong. Do you folks see what the stupid “argument” is?

@ Vicky

The athletics dept is a whole other issue, along with the pathetic administration.
The university seriously needs to clean up the trash inside of it, such as funding black holes which contribute nothing to the university.

i think Liz did her job—-hear me out please. i did some homework and noticed the forwards/strikers from byu tend to stomp feet of opposing defenders w cleats to try to gain position (nothing wrong with that in my opinion). what did we see? mean o’l Liz Lambert bullying the “supper nice” girls from byu around. i challenge anyone to ask a defender from another team how dirty the byu girls play. my point is coach kit vela told Liz they will not bully us—-and Liz did not back down. Liz took the fight to the “supper nice girls from byu”. great job Liz-sorry you got thrown under the bus=shain

what a nasty girl! i can not believe this is the first time this chic acted like a redneck white trash nut. so why was she on that team. i do not think she is sorry, or the school is devestated, i think they are just sorry the bitch was on you tube.

People should be outraged at the officials at the game. Those girls were not doing anything the officials were not letting them get by with. That is not a defense, it is fact. If Elizabeth Lambert should have been kicked out of the game, so should have some BYU players. The officials, who let that game get out of control, should be banned from officiating again.