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Elizabeth Lambert has been suspended from the New Mexico women's soccer program after a stunning series of cheap shots in a game against BYU that included hitting, kicking, shoving and pulling the hair of opposing players.

Elizabeth Lambert is a New Mexico women's soccer player who turned the BYU vs. New Mexico game in the Mountain West Conference Tournament this week into a brawl.

Lambert was seen elbowing, pushing, pulling hair and kicking BYU players in one of the most shocking displays of dirty play you'll ever see. BYU won the game 1-0, and BYU freshman forward Carlee Payne, who scored the only goal, said afterward that it was a rough game:

You don't need to speak Portuguese to understand what this news report is about:



No English-language accounts explaining the incident are available, but suffice to say, a major brawl broke out at the end of a women's soccer game in Brazil. A rough translation of a Brazilian article indicates that the brawl took place after Alagoano defeated Cesmac 2-1. One woman was apparently injured when she was kicked in the face. The fight has been condemned by the local sports authority.

Iris Kyle won the Ms. Olympia bodybuilding competition on Friday, earning professional bodybuilding's highest honor for the fifth time in her career.

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Here's what I got out of this Wall Street Journal article titled, "What's the Point of Cheerleading?": Nobody knows how many cheerleaders there are in part because the NCAA doesn't track participation (because it doesn't consider it a sport).

I think that answers the "what's the point?" question, although the cheerleading lobby might feel differently. But the crux of the piece wasn't to denigrate the after-school activity (although, frankly, I'm fine with calling it a sport even if there aren't winners or losers), it was to investigate whether "... cheerleading has wandered too far from its original purpose, firing up crowds at football games."

After easily winning gold in the women's 800 meter race at August's World Championships in Berlin, South Africa's Caster Semenya found herself the target of allegations that she was not actually a woman. At the time, International Amateur Athletics Federation officials were quick to note that Semenya was undergoing gender testing, but the results would take a while.

Well, it's been a while, and the results are now in. Semenya is reportedly intersexed, possessing both male and female genital organs.

Last month, rumors had Danica Patrick appearing in ESPN the Magazine's Oct. Body Issue, which would feature male and female athletes is various stages of undress. According to Danica's people (via CNBC.com's Darren Rovell), she's "NOT confirmed to appear in the issue, nor has she even been approached."

Still no word on Patrick's intentions, but yesterday, Golf Digest's Ron Sirak wrote that three LPGA players will appear in the magazine and, shockingly, one of them isn't Anna Rawson.

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Beach volleyball star Misty May-Treanor has won more career tournaments than any other player. She's also brought home the gold at Olympics twice. FanHouse recently caught up with Misty at the Gatorade Athlete of the Year Awards, where she was one of the presenters. In this video, Misty tells what athletes have in common with superheroes.

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If you're like 99.9% of American sports fans, you're not much going to care when I tell you that Peru beat Argentina in women's volleyball over the weekend to advance to the World Championships. But you should watch the video below anyway.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) -- Swin Cash and Nicole Powell helped the Western Conference get back on the winning track at the WNBA All-Star game.

Cash set an All-Star game record with 22 points, Powell had 21, and the West beat the East 130-118 on Saturday. Diana Taurasi had 18 points, and Sue Bird added 16 to help the West snap a two-game losing streak.