company to drop lance armstrong.ee with oz. tiger is in the deep woods here. david: again, he's not saying he's addicted to anything, even though something like this has happened before back in 2009. john, what do you think? did nike make a mistake in sticking by him? >> no, they did the right thing. phil knight has a long relationship with tiger woods. he's made it a lot of money and nike sticks by its athletes. we don't know the full story. what a shame if nike would have turned tail for him now. david: there have been combacks, ryan lochte, michael phelps, michael vick, i didn't think he'd ever come back from the thing with the dogs. and there are precedents for this. >> yes, it's good for nike to stick with him and they started with him and benefitted from the relationship. other sponsors want to stay on the sidelines and drop him, fine, nike with them gives tiger woods if he can come back the ability to come back. >> with tiger, he's been here before. >> nike would be within its rights to back away from tiger wo