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NASSAU, Bahamas -- It wasnt exactly, Hello, world. It was more like, to borrow an old Michael Jordan comeback phrase, Im back.Tiger Woods made it clear Tuesday during his first news conference after a 15-month injury hiatus that he has metaphorically transitioned from his Chicago Bulls glory years to the late-career unfamiliarity of the Washington Wizards.He even has a name for it: Phase 2. Thats the term Woods came up with for the second half of his career while bedridden after a third back surgery last year, unsure whether he would ever play competitive golf again.Yes, its true. The most dominant player in the history of golf -- the man who not so long ago appeared invincible against every other elite player in the world -- believed he was done. He had come to grips with the realization that he might never swing a club inside the ropes again.While questioning that career mortality, he started thinking about life after golf.Woods decided he wanted all of his business entities -- the foundation, the course design firm, the restaurant -- under a single umbrella. This shouldnt come as a surprise, nor should it be of great interest to anyone who isnt directly affected by these entities. The decision does, though, shine a light on Woods mindset at the time. It stands as residual proof that he believed he would never fully recover from those surgeries.Now that he is playing again at this weeks Hero World Challenge, Woods finally knows that Phase 2 will also involve a competitive golf schedule.The sponsors are happier than theyve ever been, he explained, because of the cross pollination, better communication has now occurred and here I am competing again.Early last year, when Woods was struggling to chip his golf ball onto the green from merely a few yards away, he tried to explain away this mental block by blaming technical changes in his swing. He contended that he was caught between patterns, which might also be a perfect way to describe his thought process during this current transition.At one point during the news conference, Tiger sounded like the Tiger of old, answering a question about his goals for this weeks return with very much the same response he has been proffering for the past two decades.Im going to try to do the same thing I always do, he insisted. Im entered in an event. Im going to try to win this thing.Minutes later, when asked how hed measure his success, that hubris was replaced by the Phase 2 edition of Tiger. Its the one who understands hes no longer golfs version of the guy wearing No. 23 for the Bulls.Im playing again, he said. Im sitting here in front of you guys with a different reality, because things have improved so much that Im able to come back here and do this again. It hasnt been easy.We can forgive Woods for being caught between the old pattern and the new one, for maintaining that winning is the main goal while also admitting that just teeing it up again should be considered a victory.Old habits die hard, after all, and it will take some time for him to admit to himself -- and to the rest of us -- that he cant have the same standards. The player who for so many years set the bar to an abnormally high level needs to move it lower than it has ever been.For the time being, at least.Maybe Woods can return to the level where anything less than a win is a disappointment. Maybe the man who a year ago wasnt sure hed ever play again can restore that form. Maybe he can infuse parts of that old version of himself with his next phase, rendering a transition more gradual than he once believed.Maybe being caught between patterns wont have the same result as the last time he employed that phrase.Ive made a lot of different changes in my game, but the mindsets still the same, he explained. Physically and also equipment, practice schedules, training, all that has evolved, [but] the mindset of competing hasnt. That is to go out there and try to beat these guys. I know theyre going to try and beat me. Im going to try and beat them.This wasnt, Hello, world. This was, Im back. Well soon find out what that means for this next phase in Woods career. http://www.nflcardinalsrookiestore.com/Cardinals-Tj-Logan-Jersey/ . Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. http://www.nflcardinalsrookiestore.com/Cardinals-Frostee-Rucker-Jersey/ . Laudrup revealed Thursday he was notified of his dismissal in "the briefest of letters which gave no reasons why such hasty and final action was deemed necessary. http://www.nflcardinalsrookiestore.com/Cardinals-Dorian-Johnson-Jersey/ . Mickelson barely made the cut but had the best round of the day with nine birdies and an eagle coupled with two bogeys to sit two shots behind leader Craig Lee of Scotland. Lee shot a 69 for a 12-under 204 total. "I just love the fact I am in contention and have an opportunity in my first tournament of the year here in Abu Dhabi," Mickelson said. http://www.nflcardinalsrookiestore.com/Cardinals-Haason-Reddick-Jersey/ . With his new coach and six-time Grand Slam singles champion Boris Becker watching him during an official match for the first time, Djokovic appeared tentative early against the Slovakian player, who often appeared content to keep the ball in play. http://www.nflcardinalsrookiestore.com/Cardinals-John-Brown-Jersey/ . Bjorn, who had a 36-hole total of 8-under 134, made a testing six-foot putt to save par on the 16th and a birdie on the 17th before bogeying the final hole after a misjudged approach shot. American Kevin Streelman was in second place after shooting a 69. Over what is now considerably more than a decade of international soccer, opponent after opponent has struggled to come up with a way to solve the riddle of Hope Solo in goal.They still fare better in that regard than U.S. Soccer ever has.On Wednesday, U.S. Soccer suspended Solo for six months. If this ultimately marks the end of Solos time with the U.S. womens national team, the same team that variously developed, depended on, enabled and scolded Solo became the latest entity to be stymied by her.The decision might well be the best thing for the national team. It might be the right time to begin to move on. But in portraying itself as doing the right thing, U.S. Soccer looks neither proactive nor pragmatic but like shallow opportunists.Solo might choose a different word.There were so many years and so many opportunities to make a stand with regard to her ability to, as U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati put it in a statement conduct herself in a manner befitting a U.S. national team member. Instead they busted her for the equivalent of jaywalking.Solo -- whose national team contract was reportedly terminated -- didnt make up a story about getting robbed at gunpoint in the Rio night. She wasnt caught using performance-enhancing drugs. Nor did she underscore millennia-old religious tensions by refusing to shake an opponents hand.She used the wrong word to make a point that wasnt correct to begin with.Asked for her thoughts minutes after an Olympic quarterfinal penalty shootout against a Swedish team that executed a perfectly permissible game plan to perfection, she first praised her teammates for living up to all those traits to which Gulati was presumably referring in his statement. Then she described the opponent as a bunch of cowards for its strategy.Imagine if she had only said what she offered later in the same mixed zone in Brasilia.Youve got to take your hat off to them because they beat us, Solo said at the time. So theyre going on, like I said, and were going home. They dont have as quality of players as the American team does or as Brazil does, so they have to play a way thats going to give them hope to beat a team like Brazil or the USA. And I think thats part of the tactical side of things. And Pia [Sundhage] is somewhat of a tactician, so she dropped her team into a 50 and tried to hit long balls. They could only really score on the opportunity for a long ball or on set pieces.So I guess you can say its smart, but I dont think its respectful to the game.Same sentiment. Still not a model of sportsmanship. Still wrong in its conclusion. But are we having the same discussion about the potential end of her international career today? In so many words, Gulati suggested the comment was the straw that broke the camels back.More like the microfiber that brought down the Brooklyn Bridge.With no more major tournaments in sight for three years, word choice spurred U.S. Soccer into action. With a World Cup and Olympic looming, neither her husbands DUI arrest while driving aa U.ddddddddddddS. Soccer team vehicle nor a domestic violence arrest merited more than a slap on the wrist (Solo was suspended for 30 days in January 2015 after Jerramy Stevens arrest) or wait-and-see silence, respectively.U.S. Soccer for years had two defensible paths with Solo. It had the opportunity to follow the path Gulati very belatedly traveled down in his statement, to hold members of the national team to a higher standard commensurate with the way they are marketed to youth.It also had the opportunity to follow a path of pragmatism, to play the best goalkeeper regardless.To a lot of people, pragmatism is entirely tolerable if presented sincerely. A lot of people are fine acknowledging that Solo is a complicated person, both flawed and admirable, with whom the United States stands a considerably better chance of winning important soccer games.U.S. Soccer did it insincerely. It chose pragmatism when results mattered, then changed its tune when it was convenient to do so.That is indefensible opportunism.The suspension itself might be one more bit of theater, the six months it spans the least important six months in the four-year cycle of international competition, especially for a veteran of Solos status. The termination of the contract could be more of an indication that this is also the first step toward turning the page (Solo will reportedly appeal both facets of the sanction). To move now might be U.S. Soccers escape hatch.Yet there is a very good chance that Solo at 38 years old in 2019 will still be as good as any goalkeeper the United States has at its disposal. Thats both a testament to her ability -- she really is a generation or two ahead of her time athletically -- and a less rosy assessment of the options on the horizon. The United States isnt going to cede much of an advantage to any other team in the world at the moment if it starts Alyssa Naeher or Ashlyn Harris. Both of the other keepers on the Olympic roster (Harris was an alternate) are excellent by any comparison to their peers. But neither came close to beating out Solo. It isnt an insult to say they arent as good as Solo -- no one is.Fans of college soccer will also know that it isnt awash in mesmerizing goalkeeping, either (and that a curious number of those standouts there seem to be Canadian). Perhaps current Stanford goalkeeper Jane Campbell is the heir apparent. Maybe its Adrianna Franch, currently competing for starts with the NWSLs Portland Thorns FC but a talented 25-year-old. All there are right now are maybes.So forgive a cynic for thinking there is still a very real chance that Solo will be back in goal when the United States goes about qualifying for and likely participating in the next World Cup.After all, history unerringly suggests the national teams relationship with Solo will always come down to how much -- and how soon -- it feels like it needs her. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China Stitched Jerseys China Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Store Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys Discount NFL Jerseys Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys Wholesale NFL White Jerseys Wholesale NFL Camo Jerseys White NFL Jerseys Cheap Camo China NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Jerseys NFL China ' ' '