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Only posting one poll this week because of Thanksgiving!

Side note: in researching this topic I learned of the ‘Video Game Crash of ‘77.’ I couldn’t fit all consoles on the poll, but this is a pretty good list.

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The AMAs were last night and Michael Jackson won ALL of them! Haha not really, but he did win a lot (4) despite not putting out an album. That put his total number of AMAs at 23, a new record.He won awards in the following categories: Favorite Soul/R&B Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Vocalist, Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Album (for Number Ones which came out in 2003). What do you think? Did Jackson deserve these awards for and album 6 years too late?

A recap of the night would be: Taylor Swift won 5 awards, Adam Lambert is still a terrible singer but he finally kissed a man and Jennifer Lopez says that he fall was a part of the choreography.

Enjoy the music below.

Whatever You Want (Remix) – Consequence featuring Kanye West, Common, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, and John Legend

Love Come Down (Remix) – Dirty Money featuring Jim Jones, Fabolous, and Red Cafe

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Elizabeth Lambert Speaks Out.

The now former New Mexico Soccer player spoke with the New York Times on the 17th about what happened during the game and what she is doing now. Lambert also adds some interesting and really spot on analysis of the incident. To quote the NYT article: ““I definitely feel because I am a female it did bring about a lot more attention than if a male were to do it,” Lambert said. “It’s more expected for men to go out there and be rough. The female, we’re still looked at as, Oh, we kick the ball around and score a goal. But it’s not. We train very hard to reach the highest level we can get to. The physical aspect has maybe increased over the years. I’m not saying it’s for the bad or it’s been too overly aggressive. It’s a game. Sports are physical.”” Which is really spot on. If you think back to the last World Cup and Zinedine Zidane, of the French team, actually HEADBUTTED Marco Materazzi following VERBAL TAUNTS. If you check out the Associate Press video below you will notice Lambert’s shove and hairpulling were in response to being elbowed in the stomach and having her shorts pulled. However, the fallout from this incident for her has been monumentally different from that of Zidane’s. Lambert is permanently suspended from her team, had rape threats (again from the NYT article “Lambert said she was shaken and appalled by some of the responses she received in e-mail messages, telephone messages and on blogs, which included the publishing of her parents’ home phone number in Southern California and one suggestion that “I should be taken to a state prison, raped and left for dead in a ditch.””), while Zidane after literally assaulting another player was allowed to keep the Golden Ball award and is still considered a great footballer.

You could make the case that there’s a difference in respectability between a professional footballer and a university athlete, however, there is absolutely no excuse for the almost universal overreaction from the media calling her the “most violent female soccer player in history” and sexualizing the incident by labeling it a ‘catfight’ and suggesting that Lambert is sexually frustrated to even Lambert herself who is now seeing a clinical psychologist to ‘understand what caused the hairpulling incident.’ Beyond Lambert’s being female, this is essentially a non-story and Lambert is unfortunately right when she says “I’ll be angry with myself that I did this, to my team, my university, that I did this to women’s soccer, a sport that many females have worked very hard to get respect for..” She is for better or worse (probably worse), the new face of female soccer players in this country. And that’s really too bad for everyone.