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Don’t talk to strangers. Wash under your fingernails. Don’t talk back. Play nice with the other kids. We have heard these a thousand times. These sayings and many more get drilled into our heads from the time we can walk. New Mexico’s soccer player, Elizabeth Lambert apparently missed the “Don’t try to rip girls’ heads off by their pony tails” or “Don’t grab people’s faces and throw them to the ground” lessons. Or I guess maybe she just forgot. Lambert’s downright viciousness exhibited last Thursday during the Mountain West Conference Semifinals between BYU and New Mexico was inexcusable and probably cost her any soccer career that might have been available for her in the future.

 

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