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AKRON, Ohio -- Any other year, Jordan Spieth would feel this has been a very good season.Just not this year.At the halfway point of 2016, he already has two victories. One of them was an eight-shot runaway against a winners-only field at Kapalua. The other was even better, earning his first PGA Tour title in his home state when he birdied the last three holes at Colonial. He was in serious contention to win a major. He is approaching $4 million in earnings in just six months.Yes, it would be a really good year, he said Tuesday. Does it feel like one? It feels like a good year. It doesnt feel like a great year yet.Theres still time, of course. Spieth has the Bridgestone Invitational this week, and he has yet to win a World Golf Championship. He still has two majors remaining. He might have the Olympics. He has the Ryder Cup.He also has last year as a benchmark.An encore was never going to be easy. He is coming off what historically can be viewed as a once-in-a-career season. It just happened to be when he was 22. He won the Masters and U.S. Open and had close calls in the other two majors. He won five times on the PGA Tour and set a record with over $12 million in earnings, and that doesnt include the $10 million bonus for winning the FedEx Cup.On Tuesday, reality set in; topping 2015 will be next to impossible. But he was basing that on 10 years, not one year.Whats interesting is every year from when I was about 12 years old, I had a more significant accomplishment than the year before, he said. I felt like I was a better player than the year before. And this is the first year where I dont have -- to his point -- an amount of significant accomplishments that I can say, `Hey, that was a stronger year than last year. Every single year before that, I can say that.His teen years were filled with a pair of U.S. Junior Amateur titles, or weekend contention at a PGA Tour event when he was 16. He won a national title at Texas. In his first year as a pro in 2013, he won the John Deere Classic and played on the Presidents Cup team.And in 2014? He didnt win on the PGA Tour, but he made the Ryder Cup team, won twice at the end of the year in the Australian Open and Hero World Challenge and ended the year at No. 9 in the world, up 13 spots from the previous year.And this year, he said, it hasnt felt that way because it hasnt been, in all honesty.The Masters still stings, but only in times of reflection. Spieth didnt have his best stuff that week at Augusta National and still had a five-shot lead on the back nine until one bad swing led to a triple bogey, and he never recovered.One hole from still having a few wins and a major, which ... I wouldnt call that anything below exceptional, he said.Still, only the British Open and PGA Championship remain. He would have to win both of them to match his major total from a year ago. And the FedEx, Spieth said with a smile, offering a reminder that last year was special beyond a pair of majors.So it can be done. Im not hosed, he said, pausing before he added, If I dont win the Open, Ill be hosed.No golfer ever wants to be told what he or she cannot do, though history was never in Spieths favor. In terms of chasing the Grand Slam, only three other players since 1960 have won the first two legs -- Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. None of them ever got another chance at it.His total ranking for strokes gained, the statistic that measures performance against the field, is at No. 8. Last year, he was at No. 2. Thats not a huge difference. His two victories at the halfway point are one fewer that last year (minus two very big majors). The perception will always change after a big year.Can it be better? Spieth knows the odds are ridiculously long, but hes not ready to concede just yet.I still believe that given the events and the magnitude of the events that are coming up, I still think we have what I would consider half the season left, he said. The number of tournaments wouldnt tell you that, but a lot of very big events left in this season to create a great year out of it.I think, he said, its a good year still. Wholesale Custom Athletics Shirts . World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187. Tony Phillips Jersey Large . PETERSBURG, Fla. http://www.customathleticsjersey.com/ . At a Manhattan federal court hearing, attorney Jordan Siev said his law office has gotten more evidence nearly every day to support its lawsuit accusing MLB and Selig of going on a "witch hunt" to ruin Rodriguezs reputation and career. 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He rebounded by kicking four field goals in the second half Sunday as Minnesota beat the Tennessee Titans 25-16.But Walsh also missed an extra point, leaving Minnesota coach Mike Zimmer disappointed and expecting improvement.Hes going to have to kick them through, Zimmer said. Hes our kicker so theres no question about that, but he needs to kick better.Walsh had all offseason to dwell over the 27-yard field goal he shanked in a 10-9 loss to Seattle in the playoffs last January when holder Jeff Locke couldnt spin the ball to get the laces out.The kicker told reporters after Sundays game he would love the first two attempts back and was grateful he got four more chances along with the victory. His first kick from 37 yards missed left, and he badly yanked consecutive attempts from 56 yards short and left just before halftime even after Tennessee tried to ice him with a timeout.I was trying to kill it because I had to get it there, Walsh said of the distance. Thats usually the result when youre trying to do that too. Thats how I looked at them. I dont think theres anything ... more you can take from it than that. Ill have to watch a little bit more to see exactly whats going on.Being mad at himself in the locker room at halftime seemed to help refocus the kicker.dddddddddddd In the third quarter, Walsh got the defending NFC North champs on the scoreboard with a 50-yard field goal.I knew that one was well within my range, Walsh said. And you know, Ive been around a little while. I think I can bounce back and Ive shown that. Like I said, I want to make it smooth from the beginning, and its something I need to work on.He added a 33-yarder and looked back in rhythm until missing the extra point after Eric Kendricks 77-yard interception return late in the third. Walsh was 33 of 37 on extra points last season.Walsh shook off that miss and added field goals of 45 and 30 yards in the fourth quarter.Now in his fifth season, Walsh has five game-winning field goals in his career, and he now has 24 field goals from 50 yards or longer in his career. That ties him with former Minnesota kicker Ryan Longwell and the late Rob Bironas for 15th in NFL history from that distance.Walsh wants to take any drama out of sending him out for any kick.You want to have those kicks that are dead center from the beginning and make it smooth the whole time rather than fighting through it and getting in a rhythm, Walsh said. Were too good to do that, and I know better than to do that.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AP-NFLFollow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalker ' ' '