OT: Women's Soccer BYU vs UNM Girl is CRRRAAZZZZYYY
Here is the video:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=null
As someone who played soccer for over 10 years I'm appalled by the play of the NMSU player. There is only one sport where her actions should be acceptable: Boxing, MMA and other variants.
This is disgraceful.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:36 PM ^
Cage Match.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:01 PM ^
Mud wrestle.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:06 PM ^
Jello Wrestle... And two more: Oil Wrestle...
November 9th, 2009 at 5:55 PM ^
I already used wrestle, so thats not more words. That's using the same word.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:32 PM ^
Her boyfriend must have gone at it with all of BYU's soccer team. HAHA ITS BYU, a Mormon school.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:42 PM ^
KY wrestling Old School style. Your my boy blue.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:36 PM ^
Were the refs blind? How the hell did she not get thrown out? Jesus.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:39 PM ^
last straw for me. The rest wasn't terrible (the thrown down was pretty bad).
It all started from that little elbow and then she went berserk. I hope that she loses her scholarship for this.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:24 PM ^
I can understand that the umpires might have missed one or at the most two of those incidents but it should have warranted a yellow card (sorry I'm not a soccer fan and don't understand the rules) and then getting thrown out of the game.
Maybe she will learn her lesson after getting her name blasted all over ESPN. I'm glad BYU won. That is always the best revenge.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:40 PM ^
This might be an upgrade for us.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:07 PM ^
Frankly she's a better fit for Dantonio's philosophy.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:52 PM ^
She would be the meanest SOB on our defense
November 6th, 2009 at 2:42 PM ^
Not saying I endorse the player's actions, but other than the hairpull and the punch at the end, the other plays seemed within the bounds of acceptable play. Note: I am not saying they were legal. They were hard and dirty fouls most of which would warrant a yellow or red card. However, they are the types of fouls that happen during the course of many games.
Given the number of fouls committed by the same player I can't comprehend how she was not ejected.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:58 PM ^
were off the ball which is very tough to catch as an official. I was a ref for soccer for many years and this stuff is very hard to catch as the older kids are very good at doing being discrete about it.
But I do agree that she should have been carded out of the game much sooner for things on the ball.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:42 PM ^
Hey, doesn't she play football for the Gators?
November 6th, 2009 at 2:43 PM ^
Urban Meyer would just make her sit in the corner for 5 minutes to think about what she did
November 6th, 2009 at 3:04 PM ^
Apparently she just made it a half hour on her own. What a mensch.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:43 PM ^
Man, you'd wake up battered, bruised, and dominated after a night with her. Jesus.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:32 PM ^
You say that like it's a bad thing.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:16 PM ^
Bad, no. Intimidating, yes. I welcome the challenge.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:56 PM ^
Or is there a limit?
November 6th, 2009 at 2:45 PM ^
Those BYU girls are pretty hot...
November 6th, 2009 at 2:48 PM ^
Deadspin (NOT an endorsement as I personally hate the site) called the whole ordeal "hot."
November 6th, 2009 at 2:55 PM ^
Wisconsin will play a weak out-of-conference schedule, AJ Daulerio is an asshole, sun rises in East.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:55 PM ^
The SEC conference today announced it was publicly reprimanding the MWC officials from yesterday's BYU/UNM game for their non calls. Mike Silve was quoted as stating "We've just got to make sure we have our bases covered as well as everyone else's bases."
November 6th, 2009 at 5:09 PM ^
And the Big Ten suspended her for all of this Saturday's football games. Don't mess with Charlie.
Then Rich Rodriguez made her an honorary captain for Wisconsin.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
i plus banged that to offset the negbang. all is well in the world.
some people either cant detect sarcasm or really cant take Anything negative when it comes to rr
November 6th, 2009 at 2:57 PM ^
I've played a good deal of soccer (let the jokes fly) and I still play in men's rec leagues. I've ran across some dirty players, but I can't think of any that were so focused on causing injury. This girl has some serious issues.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:59 PM ^
since you played soccer, can't the linesmen make a call on those plays away from the ball??? there is no way that she should have been in the game after the hair pulling.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:06 PM ^
Yeah, a linesman could've (and should've) made a call.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:10 PM ^
Agreed. When it comes to illegal rough play, you can call that from anywhere that you see it. The hair wrestling moves at least. The hard slides maybe not so much, but that was just one play out of 7 or so.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:19 PM ^
don't have the authority to stop play. They can throw their flag up if they spot something but the referee needs to sound the whistle. In any case they should conference with the ref when the play is stopped if they saw something. I'm sure they did throw their flag up for the tackles and hard fouls on the ball.
However, They might not have seen the fouls off the ball. It's easy to get away with dirty play off the ball on a field that big. This girl is a pro. She knows how to make hard on the ball fouls that aren't bad enough to warrant an ejection and she apparently knows when she's out of the view of the officials for playing dirty.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:04 PM ^
is that so much of these things were caught on camera, in isolation. I mean, this is not the football game of the week where you have a zillion cameras to keep track of absolutely everything. This is a second round WAC women's soccer tournament game, and yet we have seeming hi-def close-ups of all these little after-the-play skirmishes (and nasty yank-by-the-hair throwdowns) as if it were Man.U-Arsenal or Germany-Argnetina.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^
The MWC has their own network "The Mountain" just like the BTN. Given the need/desire to have real content to fill its hours, it probably viewed Thursday semi-final games as a great chance to put on some live sports.
OK, so you now have the game and as they are filming, someone is catching this (maybe there was some history, maybe the director realized after the first push/punch incident that this could be a developing story) decides to iso on her for the rest of the game.) Then, when cutting the package, someone says "Hey, I bet this would get on the WWL if we sent them the package with a head's up" and so they send it along, and sure enough, there's footage, courtesy of the Mountain, which has now gone viral.
It's not like this ruined New Mexico's sports year. It's just sort of one more thing for the Lobos this year.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:15 PM ^
What? All coaches punch their assistants. All women's soccer players throw girls down by their hair.
If the narrative is that there is violence, the game narrative is violence. There was a clip of a scoring opportunity. The girl did most of it when around the ball (punches and wrestling moves). It becomes the game story when it's that blatant and repetitive. I've got no problem with the Mountain putting that clip set together.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:19 PM ^
"All coaches punch their assistants."
It is my belief that someone at the Oakland Raiders' facility just read your comment and nodded knowingly.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:23 PM ^
We now have some clips straight from the game itself which I think give rise to the idea that it was, in fact, the dominant narrative of the game itself.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MultiSportsNut
November 6th, 2009 at 4:27 PM ^
has a great future as a coach!
"Everybody murders, everybody steals" etc., etc.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:15 PM ^
What a bitch.
She ripped some other girl down by her hair. I don't have long hair, but damn I bet that hurts.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:48 PM ^
Totally agreed that she is a bitch.
However, I wear a ponytail 9 days out of 10, and I suspect what hurt most was not the hair/scalp but the yanking at her neck (and the sudden hard contact with the ground). A ponytail getting yanked isn't like when a random hank of hair gets pulled. It pretty much will pull your whole head back (and get you dropped to the ground if E. Lambert is doing the pulling) BUT you don't feel it in your scalp so much. Still a dirty-ass move, and probably dangerous to boot, but it wasn't hair pain you have to try to imagine.
*cue 'The More You Know' graphic*
A friend pointed out that Ms. Lambert will be dealing with this every time a future employer googlesearches her. Nice.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:15 PM ^
I think of all the games I've watched, women's soccer is consistently the dirtiest.
And also the hottest.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:16 PM ^
What baffles me is what others have said. Why didn't the linesmen do anything? It's near impossible to miss most of that stuff, the linesmen are supposed to watch for off the ball stuff. That chick is crazy.....
I need her number.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:20 PM ^
Everybody does... kills people, murders people, steals from me, steals from you, pulls people down by the hair, punches people in the head, punches people in the back...
November 9th, 2009 at 10:07 PM ^
True. Maybe TP will wear her name and number in his eye makeup this week.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:36 PM ^
"This is in no way indicative of my character or the soccer player that I am."
ummmm.........yes it is.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:52 PM ^
Most impressive.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:30 PM ^
Seems like the girl might draw some pretty severe punishment.
Their media guide says she's a junior. With the risk of further negative attention for the university, it seems like she definitely shouldn't be back on the team next year, and who knows if she'd be back at UNM.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:44 PM ^
I almost passed over this thread, because....well, it's about women's soccer for crying out loud. However, I took a chance, thinking that I might see something cool like a slap fight or something. Needless say I was disappointed in the lack of slap fights, but HOLY MOTHER OF G*D, how is that #15 chick from NM still allowed to play collegiate athletics!? That woman should be an "enforcer" in the NHL!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:47 PM ^
that had to tell her she was suspended? Are they still able to walk? That was most definitely hot though. I think the grudge match should be on PPV. She's pretty tough, maybe the BYU girl can have a partner and make it a special "three-way" match??