Group Effort: US Women Bring Heavy Stick Out For 2nd Half, Drop North Korea, 2-0

Editors's Note: TSG guest columnist Maura Gladys on Game 1 for the USWNT.

Lauren Cheney paid back the boss lady for her surprise start....

Hear that? That's the sound of the entire U.S. Women's national team, along with its fan base, exhaling. After weeks of hype, build up, criticism, anxiety and pressure, the U.