Arsenal's Olivier Giroud was reminded of this fact with a red card as his team tangled with Queens Park Rangers on Boxing Day.
I love that he drove all the way from Down East to Burlington, Vermont, to watch the University of Maine's women's basketball team tangle with the University of Vermont Catamounts, a game I was broadcasting on radio.
Those two teams tangle again at Fenway on Friday night.
But at least as interesting as the game itself — won with Marc Staal's second-period power-play slap shot, Brian Boyle's empty-net goal and Henrik Lundqvist's 17-save shutout — was the small drama that unfolded around Sean Avery, always a person of interest when these teams tangle.
This would not be the first time Mr. Mason's team has tangled with regulators either.
John E. Roberts, who usually plays defense for the white team, often tangled with Mr. Palazzo.
At some point passion for a team got tangled with aggression, a trait that could use untangling in many locales the world round.
Granger's team got tangled in the old Spanish practices of the NHS, and met no great success in project management.
But one narcotics supervisor who has been involved in the training said the team that tangled with Mr. Dorismond did not appear to have followed one important guideline cited during training sessions: if a confrontation appears to be escalating, move on.
Of course, the Coyotes are not the first team to get tangled in messy financial proceedings.
