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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Lisa Borders and WNBA players are ready to move forward.With the league resuming play this weekend after a month-long Olympic break, Borders outlined to The Associated Press a plan to have teams and players hold conversations in the community similar to what Carmelo Anthony and the U.S. Olympic basketball teams did in Los Angeles last month. The WNBA president said that was a solid blueprint for what can be done in each WNBA city.Weve created a guide book which will enable each of our teams to take that same concept and bring it to life in their market, Borders said in an interview with The Associated Press. Our players are ready to start that phase and lead it with their colleagues from the NBA and if there are folks from other sports franchises that want to participate well welcome that as well.Borders didnt give a timetable of when the plan would be implemented. The league had fined three teams and their players last month for wearing shirts to show solidarity after shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The fines were later rescinded a few days later, right before the Olympic break.I think it would be great. Anything would be great, said Liberty center Tina Charles. Its embarrassing that it got to the point that it got to. The fact that president Lisa Borders is willing to take the next step forward, its not about keeping the players happy. Its because you need to show your support in what your players need. Were happy and thrilled that something will get done.Charles had been one of the most outspoken WNBA players in support of the movement. She wore her warmup shirt inside-out in the Libertys last game before the Olympic break even after the teams had been fined.Shes a young woman that has a strong voice, a compelling voice and shes found that voice and is using it in a very constructive way and I am proud of her and I told her that, Borders said. If you call that clearing the air, this is the commissioner saying you go girl. Im very happy with her and for her.Tamika Catchings, who is president of the players association, attended and spoke at the Los Angeles meeting. She said that she and Pacers star Paul George came away from that event planning on doing their own community conversation in Indianapolis. She welcomed Borders idea as a positive move.Its a great step forward. Great that we can come together and do it united and have a united front that we always talk about, Catchings said.Despite the contentiousness before the break, Borders was proud of the players for taking a stance.Any movement in modern history has started with young people, she said. This was no exception. Im a child of the civil rights movement. ... There are issues in the world today in our country that we need to deal with. Our players felt the need to speak up and I think thats a good thing.---Follow Doug on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dougfeinbergLarry Fitzgerald Cardinals Jersey . The 18-year-old American had five birdies in her bogey-free round for a 17-under total of 196. Lee held the overnight lead but mixed three birdies with two bogeys for a 70. 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Cory Sarich also scored for Colorado (3-0-0), which is off to its best ever start.Its the middle of August in a league that craves pass-rushers, and 28-year-old Greg Hardy cant find a job.We all know why, of course, and its tough to dig up a reason to feel bad for him. Hardy paved his own path to air-conditioned August NFL purgatory with a series of grievous missteps. A domestic violence incident for which he has remained disturbingly unrepentant in public. A volatile 2015 season with the Dallas Cowboys in which he openly feuded with coaches on the sideline, aggravated teammates with his attitude and mustered only six sacks in 12 games.But at some point, the odds are, someone will sign Hardy.There is some substantial team interest in Greg, Drew Rosenhaus, Hardys agent, said Tuesday. I do believe he will be signed in the near future by either a team that suffers an injury on the defensive line or a club that realizes it simply needs more talent on the defensive front.A fair bit of agent spin and overconfidence live in that statement, so do some significant truths. This time of year, the reality for any unemployed NFL player who wants to work is that someone will get injured in a practice or a preseason game and open a job thats not currently open. And the reality for a pass-rusher who had 15 sacks in his most recent full season -- even if that was three years ago -- is that plenty of teams are always looking for pass-rushers.The Jacksonville Jaguars recently had Hardy in for a visit and an extensive workout. Sources familiar with their plans said they werent looking to sign Hardy at this time but rather to get a sense of his conditioning -- to see how he sounded in person and looked on the field in case they were to suffer an injury or some other setback at defensive end and decided to look for external solutions.After Junior Galettes latest season-ending injury, Washington discussed adding Hardy as well, but decided not to pursue him. At this point, the only team with which he has met face-to-face this offseason appears to be Jacksonville. Rosenhaus is doing the legwork trying to drum up interest from teams while Hardy works out in Davie, Florida, with NFL combine trainer Pete Bommarito.So what will it take at this point? What kind of internal hurdles will a teams decision-makers have to clear in order to bring Hardy into the fold? Desperation is likely to drive the process, but its clear from talking to NFL coaches and executives the past few weeks that teams have concerns that go beyond public relations.Its not what happened in his past, said one official whose team is not interested in Hardy. Its the way he reacted last year to everything that happened in his past that would concern me. If hed been a model citizen and played at a high level, hed still be in Dallas.But neither of those things occurred, and so a Cowboys team whose best two edge rushers are starting the season on drug suspensions has no interest in bringing him back. That says a lot -- especially to a league in which the Cowboys were the only team that seriously pursued him a year ago.The Cowboys people to whom I spoke about Hardy want to move on and dont seem to bear him any ill will. But they said the issue with Hardy last year wasnt effort. They believe he played hard for them, in spite of the lackluster numbers. People close to the situation say they think Hardys off-field baggage and the questions that lingered about his past became too great a distraction to allow him to focus effectively on football.dddddddddddd Basically, everything that had gone on and was still going on in his life away from the field was preventing him from concentrating enough to play the way Dallas expected him to play on Sundays.Has that changed? According to a May report by Pro Football Talk, Rosenhaus has spent a portion of this offseason informing NFL teams that Hardy has spent time in counseling sessions for anger management, temper management, domestic violence and evaluation for ADHD. The point of this is surely to try to convince teams the problems of 2015 wont resurface in 2016.Rosenhaus and Hardy also make the point that the player was understandably rusty after missing the final 15 games of the 2014 season and the first four of 2015 due to suspensions, and that he could be expected to play better this year without such a layoff. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made a similar point in Hardys defense when speaking to reporters at the combine in February.So you begin to see the ways in which a team could convince itself that Hardy is worth both the gamble and the PR hit that would come with signing a player whos perceived by many as having been insufficiently punished for a frightening domestic violence incident.And you look around and wonder who it could be. You look at teams that run a 4-3 defense, since Hardy seems to fit best as a traditional 4-3 defensive end. Jacksonville fits, as discussed earlier. Atlanta has been looking for pass-rush help, but its possible that the Falcons recent signing of Dwight Freeney takes them off this list. Detroit and New Orleans are pass-rush-hungry teams that run a 4-3.Cleveland is a 3-4 team in the hunt for pass-rushers, and its possible the Browns could fit Hardy into their scheme on the right deal. Buffalo is dealing with a couple of significant injuries in its front seven, and you know the coaches there arent scared of anything.You look at teams that?have confidence in their programs and their leadership. Its possible a team like New England, which just lost Rob Ninkovich for several weeks due to injury and has a ton of capital built up with its fan base, could sell a Hardy signing as a potentially beneficial bargain -- especially if Hardy, as its expected he must, signs a team-friendly deal packed with incentives.You look at Cincinnati, a 4-3 team that has made the playoffs five years in a row but cant get out of the first round. The Bengals havent shied away from difficult character cases in the past, because they know thats a good category in which to find bargains and because they believe in Marvin Lewis ability to hold everything together.The fact that a player of Hardys age and ability is still sitting around in mid-August without a job says everything you need to know about the position in which he has put himself. But at some point, you have to think someone will give him another chance, in spite of everything. Thats the way of the NFL world. Pass-rushers are always in demand, and someones always going to get hurt. ' ' '