And yet so-called senior England professionals are publicly holding a gun to the head of the game's hierarchy.
Brendan Shanahan, whose position as the league's director of player safety isn't to be confused with Valentine's old job, apparently had seen enough by the time the Phoenix Coyotes' Raffi Torres leveled the Chicago Blackhawks' Marian Hossa with a hit to the head in the third game of their first-round playoff series.
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In a head-to-head test with the GameCube, Jon played new versions of a game called Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on both machines.
"It depends on the role and certainly to be a head coach in rugby you need to have a pretty good knowledge of the game and I would suppose to be a manager of a soccer team you'd need the same, " he said.
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It has decided to immediately take any child with a head or neck injury out of the game, and to require a doctor's note to allow that child to play again.
Carlos Ramos or "Carlinhos the Waterfall" - the man from whom Mr Diniz is accused of taking money for favours while head of the Rio de Janeiro state lottery - is thought to be a kingpin of the Rio numbers game.
New Jersey defenseman Anton Volchenkov sat out the first game of a four-game suspension for elbowing Boston's Brad Marchand in the head on Wednesday.
Cahill managed to get behind the wall of Galaxy defenders to perfectly head home a crossing pass from Juninho for the game winner.
The game is the brainchild of Adam Blumenthal, a longtime Dead Head and chief executive of Ashville, N.
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"We just didn't execute down the stretch, " said Red Storm assistant coach Rico Hines, who ran the team for a second game while head coach Steve Lavin was away following the death of his father last weekend.
Now, in this second game back, the 6-6 Giants head to Dallas for a game they are openly saying is the equivalent of a playoff game.
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As Bob Reischauer, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office, puts it, both sides are indulging in a game of chicken.
Soon after kick-off the game had to be halted for 10 minutes because of a worrying head injury to the Dragons' teenage flanker Dan Lydiate.
That would effectively end the oft-used move of lowering your head and nailing an opposing defender, a tactic as old as the game itself.
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Bopara, England's form player across all formats of the game, got England under way with a cut over point's head for four, but the second delivery of Mohammed Aamer's international career did for him.
The CEO of Under Armour, Kevin Plank, explained that a serious issue to address is the tendency of athletes to minimize injuries and head trauma to avoid being removed from a game.
Things came to a head with a mistake on the final play of the Monday night game that cost the Green Bay Packers a victory against the Seattle Seahawks.
Mark Lamia, Treyarch studio head, said his developers did a lot of research to set the game in a plausible future.
Trouble continued to follow Balotelli around and he was given a four-match ban in January 2012 after appearing to stamp on the head of Tottenham's Scott Parker during a Premier League game.
"Football is a mirror of society, and sadly the same ills that afflict society -- in this case violence -- also manifest themselves in our game, " the head of world soccer said in a statement on FIFA's website.
The suit alleges a long history of coverup by the NFL about the effects of the game's head trauma.
This is a stealth game about a bald guy with a barcode tattooed to the back of his head.
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Sporty travellers can also head to the Silent Arrow desert camp, 2.5km west of town, for a game of Desert Archery.
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, says naming and shaming is a dangerous game to play.
Abdelkader appeared to catch Lydman square in the side of the head with his left shoulder, and he was given a major penalty for charging and a game misconduct with 4:49 remaining in the second period.
Shashank Manohar, head of the BBCI's tour fixtures panel, said venues "may be allowed to swap a game with another state association" if adverse weather is forecast.
"He really needs to get his head sorted out and get into physical shape because he's been out of the game for a long time now, " Irvine told BBC Sport Wales.
But shoppers have been conditioned to shop only for deals, and David Bassuk, head of the global retail practice at consulting firm AlixPartners, said the next few weeks could set up a "game of chicken, " with consumers waiting to see if retailers' prices will come down before buying.
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