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July 14, 2023
Happy Friday from your friends at The Ringer! Here are some things you might have missed on our site this week. 

College Football

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Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired this week following hazing allegations—and it was the university's journalism students that helped break the news. 

Best Quote: “As a Northwestern fan and alum, I kept hoping that a swarm of players or coaches would come forward and say that this never happened. That never materialized." —Rodger Sherman

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NBA

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As we wait for more deals to be finalized, it's time to unpack all the right and wrong moves from the 2023 NBA free agency period. We determined which teams came out on top, and which ones flopped. 

Winners and losers of 2023 NBA free agency

Movies

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Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt to battle AI in Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One this weekend, but he's also challenging the artificiality of moviemaking with dangerous motorcycle stunts. 

Best Quote: "If you were to make a list of the things that make Tom Cruise (as opposed to Ethan Hunt) very upset, the no. 1 entry (above Matt Lauer, psychiatry, streaming platforms, and The Master) would surely be the kind of digital manipulation practiced by the Entity and Hollywood alike." —Adam Nayman 

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Television

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While 2023 may only be halfway over, the television gods have truly gifted us with some exquisite content. Find out which series landed on our list of the best shows of 2023. 

Best Quote: “To the dads of the world: Add The Diplomat to your Netflix queue ASAP.” —Miles Surrey 

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Bill chats with Stephen A. Smith about balancing workloads, critiquing athletes, and the state of the Knicks.

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