NBA

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Manu Ginobili scored 28 points and Michael Finley added 24 as the San Antonio Spurs won their fourth straight with a 107-97 victory over Orlando.

Dwight Howard had 24 points and 21 rebounds, his eighth game this season with at least 20 in both categories. Rashard Lewis added 24 points, Keyon Dooling 19 and Carlos Arroyo 17.

Tim Duncan had 19 points and 15 rebounds for San Antonio.

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DALLAS -- Josh Howard took over a tight game midway through the third quarter, carrying Dallas past the L.A. Clippers 103-90 in its first game since losing Dirk Nowitzki to injury.

Dallas, which had lost three straight, led only 60-58 when Howard got rolling. Howard scored 20 of the Mavericks' next 26 points, putting them up by 16 early in the fourth quarter. He finished with 32 points, easily his most since Jason Kidd arrived.

Major League Baseball

TOKYO -- Daisuke Matsuzaka got the Tokyo Dome fans revved up, and Manny Ramirez struck the winning pose.

Ramirez hit his second two-run double in the 10th inning -- admiring his drive from the batter's box, thinking it was a three-run homer -- and Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 6-5 in Tuesday night.

A crowd of 44,628, including fans from Boston, cheered at the Tokyo Dome, which hosted baseball's opener for the third time in nine years.

Reprising the partisan nature of last month's Roger Clemens-Brian McNamee congressional hearing, the leading Republican on that committee released a report Tuesday questioning some of the Democratic majority's conclusions about the investigation.

The 109-page report contains details Rep. Tom Davis believes could challenge the credibility of McNamee, the personal trainer who testified under oath he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998-01.

Minority staff from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will pass along additional information to the Justice Department. The FBI is investigating whether Clemens testified truthfully to Congress.

College Basketball

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Michael Beasley is still grappling with a decision, but his coach expects the Kansas State star freshman to head into the NBA draft.

Frank Martin said in an interview with The Associated Press and the Manhattan Mercury on Tuesday he believes the 6-foot-10 power forward, even though he loves college life, will probably turn pro.

"I think he's going to go, and I think it's the right thing to do, because he's going to be the top pick in the draft," Martin said.

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