DALY: Giving soccer a fighting chance

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By Dan Daly

Have you seen the clips of this female soccer player at New Mexico who roughed up half the BYU team? She kicked one opponent, tackled another and nearly decapitated another by yanking on her ponytail.

And that was just trying to fight her way to the mirror in the ladies' room.

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BYU finally got her to settle down when it put Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the game.

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Amazingly, it wasn't until the 76th minute that the officials gave Elizabeth Lambert a yellow card. Of course, the only player who's ever gotten a red card in women's soccer, from what I understand, is Lizzie Borden.

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Neal from Gaithersburg e-mails: "Compared to Elizabeth Lambert, Jack Lambert was a wuss."

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Elizabeth is banned from practices, games and conditioning drills indefinitely, her coach announced.