As soon as I saw the Elizabeth Lambert video I knew that I would be writing about her this week. Elizabeth is the "mean girl" soccer player that was suspended for rough play this week. She is the girl who was caught on video punching another player in the back and pulling hair.If you watch this video it looks terrible.

The New York Yankees have won their 27th World Series.Try to process that for a minute. 27 championship wins. That is insane. That is more than any other team in Major League Baseball. These wins date back to 1923, but that doesn't make it any less impressive.My favorite baseball team has never won a World Series. Ever.So congratulations to the New York Yankees, again. If they were a player I would be encouraging them to retire. I can't help but be reminded of the Crash Davis quote from Bull Durham about strike outs.

Lately there has been a lot of talk about the White House being a big old boys club. Sure, we know that about half of the Obama staff is made up of women so why all the fuss? Oddly, a lot of it has to do with sports.

One of my neighbors (and a fellow bus stop mom) ran the Marine Corps Marathon yesterday. I always wondered what would posses a person to want to run 26.2 miles in a row. I have always been of the mind set that I don't run unless there is someone or something chasing me.My neighbor started training when her boss turned 40 and decided to train for a marathon. Her husband said she would never be able to do it. Stephanie is 47 and a breast cancer survivor. She ran the Marine Corps Marathon in six hours and 14 minutes.She is my new hero.

When I think about sports in October the first thing that comes to mind is baseball. October means playoff series' and hot dogs and beer. The World Series begins on October 28th this year. They call clutch baseball players who do well in the post season "Mr. October". October is for baseball, right?Well, yes and no. Sure we love championship baseball and late-inning comebacks, but there is more to October than just baseball.

Ever wonder what would happen if you took a hockey player, stuck them into a pair of figure skates and told them that they have to learn to use a toe pick while skating backwards and lifting a woman in the air? Well now you can watch what would happen on tv. No, I'm not talking about that brilliant piece of classic 90s film The Cutting Edge (say it with me - toe pick!) and you won't see D.B. Sweeney making an appearance here (at least I don't think...). I'm talking about Canada's brand new reality tv offering, Battle of the Blades.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to do something I have wanted to do for years. I got to see my favorite football team, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, play against the Washington Redskins at Fed Ex Field in Landover, Maryland.I have probably been to 20 Bucs games but this was the first time I got to see an away game. I've lived in the Washington D.C. Metro area for almost four years and this is the very first time since I have lived here that Tampa Bay played the Redskins up here. I wore my Buccaneers jersey and everything.

I was sitting quietly working on a post this weekend when my husband called me from his office. "Are you watching this game? USF is beating FSU?"My husband went to the University of South Florida and he had the game live streaming on the internet. He asked me to record the game so he could watch it when he got home and I am so glad he did or I would have missed history being made.

What if this were your child, champion South African runner Caster Semenya?

If you were watching the U.S. Open you saw Serena Williams come undone.Who am I trying to kid? If you were watching tennis, or ESPN, or CNN or even your local news you probably saw the clip.In a sport where decorum rules the courts it is unusual to see a tennis player throw a fit during a match.I haven't seen an outburst like that during the U.S. Open since John McEnroe played the game.

What a long strange month it has been - and September isn't even half way over yet! The NFL kicked off their season in style on Thursday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Tennessee Titans 13 - 10 in overtime.

A couple of weeks ago The National Football League started fining players for tweeting negative things about training camp. Then they made it clear that players were not allowed to tweet during games. Now the NFL has a new set of guidelines restricting the fans permissions to tweet (or Facebook, or YouTube or MySpace) before, during or after professional football games.