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NFL Diary: Week 1
Every week this season Ryan Bradley will be reviewing the NFL weekend that was. —– Week one of the NFL season is in the books, and what a week it was. Denver bulldozed the defending Super Bowl...
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NFL Diary: Week 2
Can Eli turn it around? Why did Jason Garrett settle for the field goal? Are the Seahawks really that good? Ryan Bradley runs down Week 2 in the NFL. Leave it to traditional sports media outlets to...
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NFL Diary: Week 3
Jay Cutler playing well in a contract year, Colin Kaepernick struggling behind a struggling O-line, and Eli Manning doing his best Mark Sanchez impersonation. Week 3 of Ryan Bradley’s NFL diary. Three...
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NFL Diary: Week 4
Vince Wilfork is done for the season, the Saints expose the Dolphins, and Kiko Alonso performing just as Ryan Bradley predicted. Week 4 of the NFL Diary. For the most part, the 2013 season has been...
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NFL Diary: Week 5
The Super Bowl looks as far off as ever for Gonzalez, Romo’s O-line playing like sieves, and Jeff Tuel basically told by coaches he doesn’t have what it takes after only 20 pass attempts. Ryan Bradley...
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NFL Diary: Week 6
Ryan Bradley plays couch coach in Week 6 of his NFL Diary. His advice: fire Tom Coughlin, bench Eli Manning and Matt Schaub, and sign you know who. We’re far enough into the season now to start...
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NFL Diary: Week 7
Maybe it’s the fact that Halloween is just around the corner, but Ryan Bradley can’t help notice that this season just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Week 7 of his NFL Diary. Sometimes it seems...
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NFL Diary: Week 8
The season is halfway home and it’s time to distribute some hardware. In Week 8 of his NFL Diary, Ryan Bradley hands out his first half awards. It’s hard to believe we’re eight weeks into the NFL...
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NFL Diary: Week 9
In last week’s diary, Ryan Bradley handed out his awards for the first half of the NFL season. This week he hands out his anti-awards. It’s one thing to give out awards but it’s another to give out the...
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NFL Diary: Week 10
Some fans root for teams to go undefeated. Ryan Bradley’s more interested in who might go winless. He was sorely disappointed by Week 10. For some, the most interesting storylines of a football season...
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NFL Diary: Week 11
Week 11 of his NFL Diary is all about the Broncos and Chiefs. Ryan Bradley breaks down what we learned from Sunday night’s showdown. In week ten both winless teams won their first games of the season....
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NFL Diary: Week 12
In Week 12 of his NFL Diary, Ryan Bradley tells us what he’s thankful for. And what he’s thankful for is football on Thanksgiving. Maybe it’s just me, but Week 12 in the NFL felt incredibly uneventful....
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NFL Diary: Week 13
When his second son was born, Ryan Bradley hoped he’d grow up to be a sports fan. In Week 13 of his NFL Diary, he tells us that you should always be careful what you wish for. As the Broncos—Chiefs...
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NFL Diary: Week 14
In Week 14, Ryan Bradley dissects Chip Kelly’s success in his inaugural season as an NFL coach, the Eagles having won 5 in a row and poised to make the playoffs. Remember after Week 8? The...
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NFL Diary: Week 15
Last week, Ryan Bradley jinxed the Eagles. In Week 15, he wonders why Tony Romo has to share so much of the blame for the Cowboys’ struggles when his defense might just be the worst in franchise...
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NFL Diary: Week 17
Ryan Bradley’s a big enough man, a good enough man, to admit what he got right this year, and what he got wrong. He looks back in Week 17 of his NFL Diary. When I first started writing this column it...
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NFL Diary: The Coaching Carousel
After the NFL’s “Black Monday,” 7 coaches are out and 3 new ones in. In a playoff version of his weekly NFL Diary, Ryan Bradley looks at the coaching carousel. Are teams making the right hires? Who...
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NFL Diary – Super Bowl Preview
In the Super Bowl Preview version of his NFL Diary, Ryan Bradley calls bullshit on the idea that Peyton Manning needs to win to cement his legacy. The Super Bowl is nearly here. The thing all NFL...
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Un-Defining Manhood
*** I once posed for photographs in high heels and women’s lingerie. I was twenty. The pictures were meant to go with an April Fool’s edition of my college newspaper, but got nixed by the university...
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The Discomfort of the Mirror: Silver Linings Playbook, Bipolar, and Me
— Ryan W. Bradley squirms through a film about a man like he was, not long ago: undiagnosed, violent, and about to hit bottom. It’s disconcerting to watch a movie about yourself. Maybe even more so...
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