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PEBBLE BEACH, California—Phil Mickelson has beaten Tiger Woods the last five times they have played together in the final round—but never like this.

This was a pounding at Pebble Beach. Mickelson shot a 64 on a day when no one else could do better than 67. Woods had a 75 on a day when only four players—none of whom were in contention—shot worse.

One guy left with the trophy, the other guy left with a lot to think about.

DALLAS—For the second-straight game on this three-game homestand, the Dallas Mavericks kept fans in their seats until the waning seconds.

Dirk Nowitzki tallied 22 points and the Mavs overcame some anxious moments to slip by the Los Angeles Clippers, 96-92, on Monday night before 20,436 at American Airlines Center.

Jeremy Lin’s one-week rise from backup to the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Eastern Conference Player of the Week helped drive shares in his boss, Madison Square garden Co., to a record high and produced the league’s best-selling jersey.

Since the beginning of the weekend, the Modell’s Sporting Goods Inc. outlet on 34th Street and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, near the Knicks’s home court, has run through multiple shipments of Lin gear, including his No. 17 jersey and T-shirts celebrating “Linsanity,” the catch phrase adopted by the team since the Asian-American Harvard University graduate led the club to a season-best five straight wins in eight days.