Red, white and blue grit: Rapinoe's 2 goals help oust the home team
by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Jun 29, 2019
3 minutes
PARIS - When the final whistle sounded on an exhilarating and exhausting 2-1 win over France in the Women's World Cup quarterfinals, 11 of the 12 players on the United States bench raced onto the field Friday to celebrate with teammates.
Megan Rapinoe didn't move.
"I was very tired," she explained. "I was very stressed."
With reason. Rapinoe has spent the last two days in the Twitter crosshairs of President Donald Trump over a 6-month-old videotape, released last week, in which she said she wouldn't
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