Yet the risk of playing up good news, of course, is that it may encourage complacency.
At the risk of playing Sinead O'Connor to his Miley Cyrus: professor, please stop.
"Who will take the risk of playing with fire and ruining his reputation?" Jean-Marie Leblanc, the head of the organizers, said.
At the risk of playing Cyrano de Bergerac with too small a snout, I suggest writing your guy a letter in what remains of summer break.
Williams said that he wanted to sign before the Olympics in London to avoid the risk of playing there without a guaranteed contract.
To make decisions on individual performances would be churlish at this stage, but the risk of playing two wide workers on the outside of Scott Parker and Gerrard needs to be considered.
Some of Sehgal's more interactive work runs the risk of playing too ingratiatingly to the crowd — a little too much pizzazz and his interpreters are Jellicle hoofers, pawing the family in the third row at the Winter Garden theatre.
Mayne-Nicholls, whose technical report warned of the high risk of playing in Qatar in the summer, said on Thursday he was still deciding whether to stand against Blatter and would make his decision in the New Year.
The game at Cardiff against Australia will be a more pressurised affair than that Test in Bridgetown and the risk of playing an unknown quantity, which was not taken in the Caribbean, will be greater.
So anyone considering this sort of thing has to ask: Is the insurance industry overstating the risk of playing along with this cutting-edge idea, is RelayRides underestimating your exposure, or both?
