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2B Daily News– Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Chad Ochocinco, right, declined to call himself the No. 1 receiver for the Miami Dolphins during his debut for the team. Ochocinco said he is changing his name back to Heat's Wade plays through custody battle Chad John- son on July 4. MCT file photo Ochocinco subdued in Dolphin debut DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Chad Ochocinco made a quiet debut with the Miami Dolphins, on and off the field. playing and to be able to wear the teal and orange, it's a pretty good feeling.'' First he made a few nice sideline catches, then took a subdued approach in his first interview since signing with the Dolphins last week. ''It's been very good the past couple of days,'' Ochocinco said. ''Enjoying an opportunity to come here and play at home, play with a great organization. A lot of changes being made here. The coaching staff, I'm enjoying it. ''I'm just having fun. It feels good to have a fresh start and I'm looking to do whatever I can to improve not only on my game but to help this organization get back to where they want to be.'' Ochocinco spoke for 1 minute, 43 seconds before saying he had answered all the questions anyone might have. He finished by saying, ''I love you. Enjoy the show.'' One of the only three questions Ochocinco answered dealt with him playing for his hometown team after spending his first 10 NFL sea- sons with Cincinnati before playing for the New England Patriots in 2011. ''It's been a childhood dream of mine, growing up watching the Marks Brothers (Mark Duper and Mark Clayton), watching Dan (Marino), some of those guys,'' Ochocinco. ''It's awesome. Throughout the years, I've always played Madden, I've always used the Dolphins no matter where I was The Dolphins signed Ochocinco on June 11, four days after he was released by New England. His one season for the Patriots was a forgettable one, as he caught only 15 passes for 276 yards. It was by far the worst production of his career. Ochocinco had caught at least 53 passes every season since a 28-catch rookie season in 2001. The Dolphins signed Ochocinco after putting him through a work- out, and his new teammates say they've been impressed by how the six-time Pro Bowl selection has looked on the field. ''He definitely has 'it,''' corner- back Sean Smith said. ''I know a lot of people had written him off because of his numbers last year, but he's out here, his routes are crisp, he's coming out of his breaks, he looks good. He's definitely going to be one of those guys that turns heads this year.'' Smith was covering Ochocinco one-on-one during Tuesday's prac- tice when the receiver made a leap- ing grab of a back-shoulder throw from quarterback David Garrard. Later in the practice, Ochocinco caught another back-shoulder pass from Garrard, this time on the left sideline against Vontae Davis. ''Chad is just trying to prove to everybody he's still Chad,'' Garrard said. ''The things I've seen of him, moving on the field, he's still very quick in and out of his breaks. That's usually the No. 1 decline for an older receiver, and I don't see that. I definitely don't see it with the hands, because he's making some catches, going up over DBs and making the catch. Those are things you want to see him go do, and he's still doing it. He also can talk a lit- tle bit, too. He's got to be able to get back to that, too.'' almost exactly three months after the Dolphins traded three-time Pro Bowl selection Brandon Marshall to the Chicago Bears in exchange for a pair of third-round picks. Even though he's never been shy about making predictions in the past, Ochocinco declined to pro- claim himself the No. 1 receiver on his new team. ''I was never good with math,'' he said, ''so I'm not good with numbers, either.'' The addition of Ochocinco came MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade has asked a Chicago judge to suspend his ex-wife's right to visitation with their two children after a weekend incident that delayed the boys' return to his custody and led to her arrest. Wade's attorney, James Pritikin, filed an emergency motion and appeared in court Tuesday to have it heard, hours before the Miami Heat guard was to play in Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder. A hearing was set for June 26, which would be the date of Game 7 if the Heat and Thunder extend the series to its limit. Wade told The Associated Press that his sons have been with him in Miami since about 6 a.m. Sunday — ''That's what mattered most to me, getting them here to be with me on Father's Day,'' he said — and that the incident has not adversely affected his play in the championship series. Siohvaughn Funches-Wade was charged with two counts of attempted child abduction, two counts of unlawful visita- tion interference and one count of resisting arrest, Cook County Sheriff's spokesman Frank Bilecki told The AP on Tuesday. Another woman at the home at the time, Nadgee Alarcon, was charged with one count of resisting arrest, Bilecki said. All the charges are misdemeanors. Funches-Wade posted $10,000 bond on Monday, Bilecki said, and is due back in court in August. It was not known if she had an attorney. ''Once again, S.L. has used our minor children as the proverbial pawns in this contentious dissolution of marriage action,'' Wade wrote in the filing, using initials to protect identities but referring to his ex-wife. ''This court must take action to protect our minor children from further exposure to the present environment S.L. creates while they are in her care and preventing S.L. from exercising her parenting time in a manner that is harmful to our children.'' The couple was divorced in 2010. Wade was awarded custody of the boys in March 2011. His ex-wife's appeal of that decision was denied in December, and the couple is scheduled to return to court in September in an attempt to complete financial terms of the divorce. ''The minor children have been subjected to great deal of drama/trauma as a result of S.L.'s conduct,'' the filing said. According to the filing, the two boys were to be picked up Ochocinco, who has said he's changing his name back to Chad Johnson on July 4, is more con- cerned these days with getting acclimated to his new team and putting behind a forgettable experi- ence in New England. ''For me, it's about me getting back to the basics, going back to the root of how it all started,'' he said. ''Not as far as playing at home in Miami but as far as my game goes and getting back to what we're all used to seeing, the basic fundamen- tals of how I became what I am. I think I kind of lost that and I'm looking to go back to Chad Johnson and just make it live again.'' RILEY (Continued from page 1B) team was and what that team was about,'' Riley said. ''He had absolute confidence being around these types of players, tremendous confi- dence challenged them in such a way that I don't think anybody else could have challenged them.'' Riley's team has some challenges these days as well, of course. MCT file photo Tim Tebow is recognized for helping writers. Tebow wins 'Good Guy' award FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Tim Tebow has won the 2011 Good Guy Award given by the Professional Football Writers of America. The quarterback for Denver last season and now with the New York Jets won the honor pre- sented by the PFWA for his qualities and profes- sional style in helping pro football writers do their jobs. secutive and first member of the He is the fifth con- quarterback Broncos to win. PFWA second vice president Jeff Legwold, who covered Tebow for the Denver Post, cites how Tebow ''not only dealt with the tradition- al media obligations both locally and nation- ally, but he was also the focus of many non-tra- ditional media outlets, both from in Denver and across the country.'' Tebow also was praised for his profes- sionalism and respect for others. finals for the second straight year — and in a touch of irony, Rick Carlisle, who coached the Dallas Mavericks to last year's championship against Miami, is the presi- dent of the association. Carlisle was among the group that selected Riley as this year's Daly award recipient. ''When it came to coaching, Chuck Daly always felt that Pat Riley was the best of the best,'' Carlisle said. ''Chuck was a great admirer of Pat's uncompromising intensity, class and style.'' And style was one of the things Riley and Daly talked about often in the final months of Daly's life. Daly was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer early in 2009, and his con- dition rapidly diminished. He spent much of his final weeks and months around friends and family in South Florida — and Riley often made the hour-or-so drive The Heat are back in the NBA FINALS Game 1:Oklahoma City 105, Miami 94 Game 2: Miami 100, Oklahoma City 96 Game 3: Miami 91, Oklahoma City 85 Game 4: Miami 104, Oklahoma City 98 Thursday at Miami, 6 p.m. x-Sunday at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. x-Tuesday at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. x - if necessary north to see Daly and spend time with the man he spent so many years coaching against. Daly was called Daddy Rich. They had the tailored suits, the perfect hairstyles, the look of success. Riley was Showtime. and very stylish,'' Riley said. ''We talked a lot about clothes, how he loved to go shopping, window shopping, go try on things and stuff like that. And then I used to ask him, how can you wear your polo coaching shirt with your collar up? Every time I saw him, he had his collar up. He laughed about it. It was his trademark. I think we were very proud to be a coach. Coaching was very impor- tant to us.'' ''He was always dapper Turns out, they had much more in common than either of them would have likely envisioned. how we were brought up and why we were so fortunate to do what we do for so long,'' Riley said. ''Two Irishmen, there's a little wall there. You don't go too deep with it. But we had some fun together.'' ''We spoke a lot about Their upbringings were similar in many respects, WNBA Conn. EASTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB 9 2 .818 — Chicago 7 2 .778 1 Indiana 5 4 .556 3 Atlanta 4 7 .364 5 New York 4 7 .364 5 Wash. 2 6 .250 5.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE WL Pct GB Minnesota 10 1 .909 — L.A. Phoenix 2 7 .222 7 Tulsa San Ant. 4 4 .500 4.5 Seattle 8 3 .727 2 3 7 .300 6.5 1 9 .100 8.5 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's results New York 73, Atlanta 60 Connecticut 88, Indiana 85, OT Today's games Washington at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Tulsa at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Thursday's games Connecticut at Indiana, 4 p.m. New York at Minnesota, 5 p.m. by Wade's sister around noon Saturday so they could make a 3:05 p.m. flight from Chicago to Miami so they could be in South Florida for the entirety of Father's Day. Wade's sister got no response at the home, and after ''sev- eral hours'' the sheriff's office was called to send someone to the scene, according to the filing. It also said Funches-Wade attempted to leave the home without the children when one of the responding deputies tried taking her into custody. The boys, at that time, were with Alarcon inside the home, according to the filing. Wade eventually hired a private jet to bring his sons home early Sunday, and upon their arrival, his older son told him that Alarcon ''smacked him on the head,'' according to court records. Records show Funches-Wade was transferred to a hospi- tal after the incident on Saturday. She told officers she was experiencing shortness of breath and thought she was having an asthma attack. Wade recently finished writing a book primarily about fatherhood and the custody fight for his sons. It will be released Sept. 4. both preached about the value of work on one's esteem, and both were intensely driven by winning. Their teams met twice in the NBA Finals, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers winning in 1988, Daly and the Pistons beating the Lakers in 1989. ''I took a lot from Chuck in those encounters,'' Riley said. Tequesta, Fla., in 2009, Riley was moved to tears. Many of Daly's best Pistons were there — Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn and Vinnie Johnson were pallbearers. And Carlisle, who was an assis- tant under Daly, attended as well, even though his Maver- icks had a playoff game that night in Denver. Carlisle said missing the funeral was just not an option. He made it to the game in plenty of time. At Daly's funeral in That's how much Daly meant to people. be like him,'' Riley softly said that day. ''We couldn't.'' ''I think we all aspired to The Daly award marks lifetime achievement, but MLB West Division National League WL Pct GB Dodgers 42 25 .627 — Giants 38 30 .559 4.5 Arizona 33 34 .493 9 Colorado 25 41 .3791 6.5 San Diego 24 44 .3531 8.5 East Division WL Pct GB Washington 38 27 .585 — New York 37 32 .536 3 Atlanta 36 32 .529 3.5 Miami Phila. 33 34 .493 6 32 37 .464 8 Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 38 29 .567 — Pittsburgh 35 31 .530 2.5 St. Louis 34 34 .500 4.5 Milwaukee 31 36 .463 7 Houston 28 40 .412 10.5 Chicago 24 44 .353 14.5 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's resuts Philadelphia 7, Colorado 2 Today's games Colorado (White 2-5) at Philadelphia (Blanton 6-6), 4:05 p.m. Thursday's games Colorado at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Riley hopes that his achieve- ments keep coming, that his Heat will deliver what would be the eighth NBA champi- onship of his career as a play- er, assistant, head coach and executive. MLB West Division Texas American League WL Pct GB 41 27 .603 — Angels 36 32 .529 5 Athletics 31 36 .463 9.5 Seattle 29 40 .420 12.5 East Division WL Pct GB New York 41 26 .612 — Baltimore 39 29 .574 2.5 Tampa Bay 38 29 .567 3 Boston 34 33 .507 7 Toronto 34 33 .507 7 Central Division WL Pct GB Cleveland 35 32 .522 — Chicago 35 33 .515 .5 Detroit 33 34 .493 2 Kansas City30 36 .455 4.5 Minnesota 26 40 .394 8.5 ------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday's results Atlanta 4, N.Y.Yankees 3 Cleveland 3, Cincinnati 2, 10 innings Pittsburgh 7, Minnesota 2 Detroit 6, St. Louis 3 Tampa Bay 5, Washington 4 N.Y.Mets 5, Baltimore 0 Boston 7, Miami 5 Kansas City 2, Houston 0 Chicago Cubs 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Toronto at Milwaukee, late Seattle at Arizona, late L.A. Dodgers at Oakland, late San Francisco at L.A. Angels, late Texas at San Diego, late Today's games Atlanta (Hanson 7-4) at N.Y.Yankees (P.Hughes 7-5), 10:05 a.m. Kansas City (Mazzaro 3-1) at Houston (Lyles 1-3), 11:05 a.m. Toronto (Undecided) at Milwaukee (Gal- lardo 5-5), 11:10 a.m. Seattle (Vargas 7-6) at Arizona (Cahill 5- 5), 12:40 p.m. Texas (Darvish 8-4) at San Diego (Bass 2-7), 3:35 p.m. Cincinnati (Arroyo 3-4) at Cleveland (Masterson 3-6), 4:05 p.m. Minnesota (Liriano 1-7) at Pittsburgh (Bedard 4-7), 4:05 p.m. St. Louis (Westbrook 5-6) at Detroit (Por- cello 4-4), 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Hellickson 4-3) at Washing- ton (Strasburg 8-1), 4:05 p.m. Baltimore (Matusz 5-7) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 4-5), 4:10 p.m. Miami (Nolasco 6-5) at Boston (Doubront 7-3), 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 1-1) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 4-7), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Eovaldi 0-2) at Oakland (Milone 6-5), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 6-2) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 6-1), 7:05 p.m. Thursday's games St. Louis at Detroit, 10:05 a.m. L.A. Dodgers at Oakland, 12:35 p.m. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Miami at Boston, 4:10 p.m.