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Phillips: 'Tierra's an inspiration'

By Glenn Nelson
HoopGurlz

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

MORAGA, Calif. -- The lives of Sue Phillips and Tierra Rogers are intertwined forever by a senseless act in the middle of what for the two of them otherwise has been a source of joy -- a basketball game. They sat on opposite sides that night, Phillips the coach of visiting Archbishop Mitty and Rogers the star of Sacred Heart Cathedral. Before then, they'd shared the same colors, on a club team that Phillips coaches called the San Jose Cagers. So it was only natural that after the murder of Rog ...

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