larry: i ll put it this way. is he the best you ever saw? reporter: well, no, i saw jack nicklaus. as long as tiger woods is going to say jack nicklaus is the best, and i saw jack nicklaus i m going to say jack nicklaus is the best. larry: doug, is he the best player you ever saw? reporter: a little more unfair for me, larry, because i only saw jack when he was 46 and won his sixth green jacket. i think tiger s the best of his generation. that s the only way you can look at this. jack was the best of his. hogan was the best of his. jones, you can go all the way back. just look at what you got today. larry: thank you both very much. we ll be checking back with you. jim gray and dug ferguson. here with us now, steven a. smith in new york, the nationally syndicated radio host for fox sports radio and the columnist for the philadelphia enquirer and former nba star broadcaster and commentator on the passing scene, john sally.