Karen Crouse over at the New York Times writes about Cal's Tierra Rogers: A Basketball Career Is Suddenly Stopped and a Teammate Is Embraced

Joanne Boyle, the Bears’ fifth-year coach, was in Los Angeles on a recruiting visit when Rogers phoned her in tears and babbled about needing a defibrillator implanted in her chest and possibly being done with basketball. Boyle, who met Rogers when she began attending California games with her father, Terrell, in high school, cut short her trip and flew home.

She was with Rogers’s grandmother Ethel May Martin and mother, Dalonna Rogers, when a grim-faced doctor told Rogers she would have to give up competitive sports. It was another sorrowful note in what has been, for Rogers, a two-year dirge.