JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tiger Woods is back on the practice tee and working to get back on the course.

Woods has returned home after a week of family counseling in Arizona and is trying to get back into a routine that includes fitness and his first significant practice in 15 weeks, a person with knowledge of his schedule said Tuesday.

Woods returned to his home near Orlando on Saturday and has been hitting balls on the range at Isleworth, not far from where he ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree in the middle of the night on Nov. 27, setting off shocking revelations of infidelity.

The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because only Woods is authorized to release such information, said golf's No. 1 player still has not decided when he will return to competition.

GROVE CITY — Grove City College senior men's basketball center Andy O'Keefe was named Player of the Year and Steve Lamie was selected Coach of the Year by the Presidents' Athletic Conference.Pine-Richland graduate and GCC sophomore point guard Brett Matson was named second-team all-conference. Senior guard Joe McCoy was an honorable mention.

STATE COLLEGE — Former Butler Hy-Flyer gymnast Nick Grant was named Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Freshman of the Week for the second time this season.Now with Penn State, Grant won his fourth floor exercise and vault titles of the season in a recent dual meet against Ohio State. His score of 15.850 on the vault was a career high.

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock University baseball team embarks upon its 12-game spring trip to Florida and Georgia this week.The Rock (2-2) plays a doubleheader at 12:30 p.m. Friday vs. Rockhurst (Ill.) in Auburndale, Fla. The Hawks (3-1) are ranked sixth in the Midwest Regional poll.SRU is ranked 30th in this week's Division II national poll. The Rock plays Ashland (Ohio), ranked 17th nationally, Saturday.The annual southern trip concludes with a pair of doubleheaders against California (Pa.) March 12 and 13 in Savannah, Ga. Those games will open the PSAC West schedule.SRU's first home game is at 1 p.m. March 16 against Washington Adventist (Md.) University at Critchfield Park.

NEW YORK — In their latest round of bickering, the NFL and its players' association have exchanged prickly statements disputing whether players will have to take pay cuts as part of a new collective bargaining agreement.After the NFL wrote on its labor Web site last week that no player would take a cut as a result of its proposal, the NFLPA responded by saying — tongue in cheek — that it was ready to sign a deal guaranteeing that the salary cap won't be lowered and there will be no reduction in retired players' or other benefits under the CBA.The NFLPA says on its site that, based on the league's statement, it renewed its proposal to freeze the salary cap at the 2009 level and asked the league to meet with its representatives immediately to extend the current labor agreement.The NFL released a statement in response, saying the NFLPA intentionally misstated the league's proposal and is simply trying to "preserve an unacceptable economic system."The current CBA expires in March 2011 and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith has characterized the possibility of a work stoppage as a "14" on a scale of 1 to 10.

HONOLULU — The Pro Bowl will be played before the Super Bowl when it returns to Honolulu next year.The Hawaii Tourism Authority and the NFL announced that the game will be at Aloha Stadium on Jan. 30, the Sunday before the Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas.The Pro Bowl had historically been played in Honolulu the week after the Super Bowl, but was changed when the all-star game moved to Miami this year.Ratings were up for the AFC-NFC matchup that was televised on ESPN.