Tiger Woods uncertain about return

Tiger Woods painted a bleak picture Tuesday on when he can return to golf or even get back to doing anything more than simply walking.

Woods had two back surgeries in a span of 18 months followed by what he described only as another “procedure” in the same area last month.

Woods is at the Hero World Challenge as the tournament host, not one of the 18 players at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas.

Woods, who will turn 40 at the end of the month, has not competed since Aug. 23 at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., where he attracted record crowds in his first appearance and played his best golf of a bad year.

Yeah, Woods said.

Because as I was alluding to that week and subsequent weeks, I felt my hip was killing me and I didn’t think it was coming from my back.

Everton and Stoke also progressed with victories against second-tier opposition.

Everton won 2-0 at Middlesbrough and Stoke beat Sheffield 2-0 at Britannia Stadium to reach the semifinals for the first time since it won the competition in 1972.

The registrar’s office of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal said it will rule Thursday on whether to overturn a manslaughter conviction against Oscar Pistorius and find the double-amputee Olympian guilty of murder for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.