After seeing the "horrible ," potentially dangerous field conditions at Aloha Stadium on Saturday, the U.S. Womens National Team refused to play its Dec. 7 friendly against Trinidad and Tobago, stop No. 7 on its World Cup Victory Tour.

The turf on which the team was supposed to play was torn-up, rock-ridden and outdated -- and just the fact that the team was expected to compete there without qualms or complaints throws into focus the undertow of sexism that still lives on in the sport today.