As for myself, I drank martinis last weekend and watched only the Jets-Pats game, thus steering clear of the Bombeck multi-game death sentence (although the martinis certainly created a different kind of coma).
Gone are the days when you are going to create a lot of opportunities and convert them - and just one clean line break or moment of genius at the death could have taken the game away from us.
They said that characters who had died during previous games in the series, as a result of player actions, would not be present in ME3, and that other actions in previous games could also lead to the death of supporting characters in the game.
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Newcastle were pushing hard for the try that would have won them the game at the death, and some of their players were incensed when referee John Paul Doyle blew for full-time with one minute and eight seconds still left on the scoreboard at Kingston Park.
The dangerous-looking Westcarr could have killed the game at the death but his shot from just outside the area was expertly denied by Elliot.
Nieuwenhuizen is the second man to die during an amateur football game following the death of a 77-year-old, who was the victim of a karate kick by a 32-year-old footballer during a game on December 3 2011.
John's coach Steve Lavin was on the minds of his Red Storm players as he missed his second game following the death of his father, Cap, last weekend.
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From a pure fairness standpoint for the players and teams, the addition of a sudden death round, should the one-game format be adopted, cuts both ways.
Yet despite the long shadow Lombardi still casts over the game 36 years after his death--he coached the Green Bay Packers to five titles in the 1960s--current National Football League coaches would be hard pressed to agree.
Ninety-five fans were crushed to death as the 15 April 1989 game was due to start.
Death is the end of the game, and all you can do is pop in another token to play again.
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For Chelsea boss Ancelotti, attending the game despite the recent death of his father, there was satisfaction in the manner in which his side responded to their first Premier League defeat of the season at Manchester City.
Players take on the guise of one of the leaders and try to kill off the other two in a Death Match type shoot-out modelled on the Unreal Tournament game system.
Mr. Paterno's death occurred less than three months after his final game as coach, and thus echoed the death of another longtime college football coach.
"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.
The other difference is that game-death is rarely permanent.
The intensity of the game was only magnified by the final whistle and the prospect of sudden-death spot-kicks.
Whereas in most Lords Managers death not only takes you out of the game for a set period, giving the enemy a numerical advantage to hurl at your defences, but also provides a significant experience point boost, rapidly developing their special attacks to devastating effect.
Frisk then received death threats and subsequently decided to retire from the game.
Djokovic, who was playing this week after learning of the death of his grandfather in Serbia, took the first game to love but struggled to maintain that level.
The other scheduled game in the group should have seen Fermanagh play Tyrone but that fixture has been postponed after the death of Michaela McAreavey.
Ancelotti took charge of the game at Stamford Bridge, four days after the death of his father Giuseppe.
But I knew then that if the game experienced any degree of success, it would be sequelized to death.
Ex-children's services director Sharon Shoesmith has said she is "not into the blame game" when asked if she bore responsibility for Baby Peter's death.
And he would rather have seen a creative defeat than the ill-tempered game that made them national champions a few hours after his death.
On any given night, the arena might play host to an American Idol concert, a hockey game or a death-metal mini-festival.
Bennett said Dame Thora "goes down with all flags flying, game to the last" in the drama, which was recorded nine months before her death.
Several Dutch teens are awaiting trial in the beating death late last year of a volunteer linesman who was working his son's youth soccer game.
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