Women's Soccer Player Gets Down and Very Dirty

New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert is a YouTube sensation—the bad kind
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 9, 2009 4:07 PM CST

Today's red-hot viral video star is more of an antihero: University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert. Lambert has been suspended indefinitely after capping off a physical—on both sides—game by grabbing a Brigham Young player by the hair and slinging her to the ground. "I let my emotions get the best of me in a heated situation," said Lambert, who received only a yellow card.
(More Elizabeth Lambert stories.)

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