Here Are the Winners and Losers of the 2020 NFL Draft

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- SPORTS -
It's time to take a look at the winners and losers of the 2020 NFL draft. [Rodger Sherman]

After you read our winners-and-losers list, join us for the 2020 NFL draft first-round grades. [Danny Kelly]

The Packers have their Aaron Rodgers succession plan. What happens now? [Kevin Clark]

Draymond Green has nothing but time ... to talk about Kevin Durant! [Paolo Uggetti]

Defining moments of the NBA season: LeBron passes Kobe, then pays homage. [Haley O'Shaughnessy]
 
- POP CULTURE -
Thirty years ago, Hollywood won the battle against the X rating. But it lost the war. [Keith Phipps]

“Queens Get the Money”: The Story of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous at 25. [Paul Thompson]

The current L.A.-centric season of Top Chef is an ode, a memory, and a reminder of a city before the coronavirus. [Alison Herman]

In a master class of persistence, strategy, and negotiation, Tony Vlachos shocked the island—and injected Winners at War with some needed new life. [Riley McAtee]

First-Round QB Picks

The Chargers need Justin Herbert to be a star. Is he up to the task? [Danny Heifetz]
The Dolphins drafted Tua Tagovailoa with the fifth overall pick Thursday night, and despite his injury history, his future in Miami looks bright. [Riley McAtee]
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The Ringer’s Kevin Clark is joined by Danny Kelly and Rodger Sherman to analyze the first round of the NFL draft.
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The Rise of the Celebrity TV Recap Podcast

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“Probably lots of people right now are going, ‘Oh, shit, let’s start a podcast,’” says actor Zach Braff, who just started a podcast. Braff’s podcast, a collaboration with former Scrubs castmate Donald Faison, launched on March 31. The show, a weekly iHeartRadio production called Fake Doctors, Real Friends, is an opportunity for the titular friends to rewatch the sitcom they starred in and relive the period when their guy love began. Scrubs started almost 20 years ago, so when I call the cohosts, I ask them how well they’ve recalled the series so far.

“I’m going to be honest with you,” Faison says. “So far, I don’t remember anything.”

“That’s not true, Donald,” Braff protests.

To settle the dispute, I point out that on the podcast’s debut episode, Faison professed to remember what Braff was wearing at the first table read for Scrubs: brown corduroys and a T-shirt.

“I don’t know if I’d trust that,” Braff says. “I don’t think I would have rocked brown corduroys to the table read.”

“I really believe you did, man,” Faison says. “You always wore brown corduroys.”

This second dispute sets off an extended exchange.

“Now that you brought up the corduroys, I have a memory of you making fun of me for wearing corduroys in the summertime.”

“Yeah, you used to do that. I’m sure it’s pretty clear that corduroy is winter clothing.”

“I didn’t know that corduroys in the summer was a fashion faux pas until you laughed at me.”

“Just think about it. It’s an extra layer to protect you from the cold.”

“I wouldn’t do it now, but probably because my brain goes, ‘How about those? No, Donald will laugh.’”

“Well, I’m glad I taught you something.”

As I listen to the tangent—and vainly try to interject with a question about something other than pants—I can almost hear George Costanza saying, “See, this should be the show!” Like the sitcom George and Jerry pitched on SeinfeldFake Doctors, Real Friends is sometimes talk about nothing. That’s the “real friends” part. But because “fake doctors” comes first, it mostly is about something: Scrubs. Week by week and hour by hour, Braff, Faison, and friends like Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence and costar Sarah Chalke are reminiscing about every episode of the nine-season series—or at least the first two seasons, after which, Braff says, the two will take each other’s temperature (presumably with a fake thermometer).

[Read Ben Lindbergh's piece on the rise of the celebrity TV recap podcast and what it means for the industry.]

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