analyst with the golf channel and amy alcott.olfing great and hall of famer. >> larry: we get into it with with our panel, let's check in with anderson cooper who will host "ac 360" at the top of the hour. >> why do americans pay more than canadians for the exact same drugs? president obama vowed to change that, remember? it's not played out that way. tonight we are keeping drug companies and lawmakers and the president honest. also, a custody battle caught on tape. a boy taken off a school bus by authorities begs police not to make him go to his father. authorities did nothing. now the boy and the father cannot be located and a warrant has been issued for the dad. >>> and tiger woods is also m.i.a. even some of his closest friends can't get in touch with him. charles barkley, filmmaker spike lee. tonight they're speaking out about their concerns. that's just ahead at the top of the hour. >> larry: that is 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. doug, you wrote the article for the associated press. was this a vote of your writers? >> no, it

. >> larry: amy alcott, do you think character should matter at all in voting for an athlete? >> larry, i think character definitely counts. i mean, that's what golf is all about. it is a game of honor it is a game of character. but this athlete, tiger woods, has taken golf to another level of atlanta let cism, of style. there's nobody really that can compete with him as far as being a golfer. i would beg to say being a horse racing fan that this has been a great year for the women, too, as far as rachel alexander. >>. >> larry: would you have voted for tiger? >> you know, it's really hard not to vote for tiger as far as being the most dominant golfer of the decade. he stepped up to the plate and he has made an impact on golf that, you know, is pretty hard to match. >> larry: doug, what do you make of this whole story, there's never been anything like it? >> it's a surprising that just about -- just about everybody, everybody i have spoken to, everyone who has been around him. i think the reason the fall has been so spectacular is that the rise really has been even more specta