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Tiger Woods shares a laugh with members of his grouping as they play during the Deutsche Bank Championship's Pro-Am round today.

Tiger Woods, the world's most recognized athlete, is back at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass., to defend his championship in the Deutsche Bank Championship this weekend. Woods leads a field of 115 players in easily the best field in the event's history.

Woods will tee off Friday at 1:07 in a 3-some that includes Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, perhaps the chief contenders for Tiger's number one world ranking over the last few years.

Woods met with the media an hour ago and addressed several issues. He says he's happy he took time off after winning the PGA Championship at Southern Hills and is refreshed for a busy stretch that'll see him play in four of the next five weeks. He also says his strategy is fairly simple when he decides when he does and does not play.

``If you're not ready to win, there's no point in playing,'' he said. ``When I play, I play to win.''

Here is the rest of Woods' interview. I'll have a story on Woods in Friday's Journal and on projo.com.

http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=45211

-- KEVIN McNAMARA

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Sean McAdam joins us from Yankee Stadium for today's edition of projo SoxTalk. Head over to the SoxBlog to listen to the audio and read excerpts from the conversation. Today's topics of conversation: can this team succeed without Manny Ramirez? Terry Francona's decision to stay with Beckett into the seventh last night; Curt Schilling's keys to success today; the Yankees' playoff hopes getting better and better; Julian Tavarez vs. Clay Buchholz; and who might get called up from the minors in the week ahead (aside from Jacoby Ellsbury, Brandon Moss and Buchholz).

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots have signed veteran punter Chris Hanson and released first-year punter Danny Baugher.

Hanson, 30, has 428 career punts for 18,347 yards with the Green Bay Packers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. He has averaged 42.9 yards per punt.

He was released earlier this week by the New Orleans Saints.

Baugher, 22, was signed to the Patriots’ practice squad in October, then assigned to NFL Europa after the season. He punted 47 times, averaging 43.4 yards per punt, for the Rhein Fire.

Read more about this story from Shalise Manza Young on our PatsBlog.

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