Amazing. Potentially more amazing than the Rasheed Wallace Buzzer Beat earlier in the week! The Wizards tried to celebrate and run the clock out when Peterson caught the celebratory heave and launched it high into the air and in… to force overtime. And like the Pistons did earlier in the week, the Raptors won in overtime as the Wizards were both baffled and deflated.

The Wizards appeared to have a victory secured until Michael Ruffin’s celebratory heave toward the rafters landed in the hands of Raptors guard Morris Peterson, whose 3-pointer from 31 feet tied the score at 109 as the horn sounded ending regulation.

Mo Peterson’s 3-pointer at the fourth-quarter buzzer to tie the game for Toronto at Washington was his only field-goal attempt of the game. The last NBA player whose only field-goal attempt either won or tied the game with less than one second left in either the fourth quarter or overtime was Milt Palacio. Palacio hit a 3-pointer with less than one second left to win a game for Boston at New Jersey on Dec. 28, 2000

Michael Phelps amazing week continues - and to be in such peak condition in a non Olympic year is truly special. Phelps is 6-for-6 at the World Championships with two races remaining. He will walk away with several world records - all of which were shatterings of the former records. Simply amazing as he broke the 200 IM and 200 Butterfly by a combined seconds! And his 200 freestyle world record erased one of the greatest records on the board - Ian Thorpe’s! And to think that Phelps strongest has never been free!

Michael Phelps 200 IM World Record Swim

Michael Phelps Butterfly World Record Swim

Michael Phelps 200 Free World Record Swim

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From Sports Guy - who is dead on. Tony Parker has officially jumped the shark. Roughly a kajillion readers sent this link to me this week, and with reason: Apparently Tony Parker is trying to obliterate the Unintentional Comedy Scale. Between this video and the gushing Sports Illustrated feature about Tony and Eva’s relationship (which should have been headlined, “The Day Sports Illustrated Officially Died”), I think Tony needs an intervention. And soon. I keep picturing a grim Gregg Popovich and an equally grim Tim Duncan taking him to dinner right before the playoffs, making small talk for about 45 minutes, then one of them saying, “Look, Tony, we need to talk … ”

The ferrari wasn’t even his - it was the producer’s! In the end, this might be the best promotion his movie gets since we all know it is going to flop - particularly with Will Ferrell’s movie coming out this weekend:

Just amazing. No time remaining. Down three. Without the ball. And Rasheed *still* forces overtime with an amazing 2/3rd court shot. This occurred last night and the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets in OT:

While Jeremy Hunt might have been en fuego (just like his hair) - no one else on the team was yesterday. Hunt scored 26 points for Memphis (all of which should be attributed to the hair) and his teammates - none of which had a similar shaving - failed to match… putting Oden and company into the final four.

How can you not love Greg Oden? What a huge block - nearly two-handed - and right at the buzzer. Tremendous.

This is absurd - in game footage of OJ Mayo (who is going to USC for one year of college hoops before cashing into the NBA). This is his final game as a high school player and, after a monstrous dunk, he throws the ball into the stands (again - the game is in progress!) and starts a wild celebration. Good sportsmanship…

From SportsGuy on ESPN: Did you see OJ Mayo’s last play as a high schooler? He threw a sick pass to himself off the backboard, dunked it home and threw the ball into the stands in celebration IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME (well, a minute to go). He’s lucky George Teague wasn’t around. I’m torn between it being sick and ridiculous.

This is a move I’ve been suggesting all off-season… the Red Sox have a terrific frontline of pitchers but, until today, had no true closer (but a variety of good setup men). Why not move Papelbon (who was lights out last year!) into the closer spot for one more year and bring Clemens into the starting rotation. Clemens is dying to make a splash into a World Series race and would fortify the Red Sox staff as the #1 in baseball (especially with Dice-K’s spring success) and give Roger a chance to cement his name as a Boston legend. Thoughts?

From ESPN: The Boston Red Sox didn’t have to search long for Mike Timlin’s replacement as closer.

Two days after announcing that the 41-year-old Timlin will start the season on the disabled list, multiple team sources told ESPN’s Erin Andrews that the Red Sox have decided Jonathan Papelbon has regained the closer’s job.

Papelbon had 35 saves and a 0.92 ERA last season as a closer in his rookie year, but a shoulder problem detected late in the season led the team to decide he would move to the starting rotation in 2007.

Because of Papelbon’s shoulder issues, there will be restrictions on how he is used: He won’t throw when he is tired and he won’t appear in more than three games in a row, Andrews reports.

The news comes after manager Terry Francona announced that Timlin, who has been bothered by a strained oblique, will start the season on the DL.

Right-handers Joel Pineiro, Brendan Donnelly and Julian Tavarez were originally being considered to close games in Timlin’s absence.

“Those are still the guys we’re strongly looking at,” Boston pitching coach John Farrell said Wednesday.

In the Boston Herald on Thursday, Papelbon voiced his willingness to return to the bullpen.

“My door is always open to better a ballclub. That’s what it boils down to,” Papelbon told the Herald when asked if he’d consider a return. “If it betters a ballclub, my door is open, let’s talk about it, figure it out. For me, I’m going to do what’s best for the team. If they go out and get somebody, or somebody finally steps up, and says, ‘Hey, I want this role’ … then we go about our business, and everyone’s happy.

“If not, then we’ve got to figure something out,” he told the newspaper. “Whether I go back [to the bullpen] or whether I stay starting and wait until the All-Star break, and do something then, we’ll have to see. It’s not an easy decision.”