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- On Friday, a multibillion-dollar lawsuit was settled to allow colleges and universities to pay their athletes. Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the NCAA will pay $2.8 billion in back damages to athletes who played college sports over the last ten years. For current and future athletes, university sports programs will be able to shell out up to $20.5 million per year for their players. The ruling is in addition to NCAA athletes being able to benefit from Name and Image Licensing deals for compensation.
- Nintendo hasn’t released official numbers, but three different sources are reporting that the company sold 3 million Nintendo Switch 2 units in its first 24 hours of being on sale. The previous record for first-day sales belonged to the PlayStation 4, moving more than one million consoles in its first 24 hours. mThe Switch 2 isn’t without controversy; GameStop is investigating claims that customers in New York were receiving damaged consoles after employees stapled receipts to the Switch 2 boxes, puncturing the screen. Resale scams are also popping up, with sites like Yahoo Auctions banning all Nintendo Switch 2 sales so gaming fans won’t get ripped off.
- The best of the Broadway stage were honored at Sunday night’s Tony Awards. The musical Maybe Happy Ending was the big winner of the night, taking home six awards, including Best Musical. Former Pussycat Dolls member Nicole Scherzinger won for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Sunset Boulevard. Big names like George Clooney, Mia Farrow, and Bob Odenkirk were nominated but did not win. Here are some of the winners in the major categories:
- Best Musical
- “Maybe Happy Ending” — Winner
- “The Buena Vista Social Club”
- “Dead Outlaw”
- “Death Becomes Her”
- “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical”
- Best Play
- “Purpose” — Winner
- “English”
- “The Hills of California”
- “John Proctor is the Villain”
- “Oh, Mary!”
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset Blvd.” — Winner
- Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”
- Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”
- Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”
- Jennifer Simard, “Death Becomes Her”
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Darren Criss, “Maybe Happy Ending” — Winner
- Andrew Durand, “Dead Outlaw”
- Tom Francis, “Sunset Blvd.”
- Jonathan Groff, “Just In Time”
- James Monroe Iglehart, “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical”
- Jeremy Jordan, “Floyd Collins”
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
- Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” — Winner
- Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”
- Mia Farrow, “The Roommate”
- LaTanya Richardson Jackson, “Purpose”
- Sadie Sink, “John Proctor is the Villain”
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
- Cole Escola, “Oh, Mary!” — Winner
- George Clooney, “Good Night and Good Luck”
- Jon Michael Hill, “Purpose”
- Daniel Dae Kim, “Yellow Face”
- Henry Lennix, “Purpose”
- Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
- Francis Jue, “Yellow Face” — Winner
- Glenn Davis, “Purpose”
- Gabriel Ebert, “John Proctor is the Villain”
- Bob Odenkirk, “Glengarry Glenn Ross”
- Conrad Ricamora, “Oh, Mary!”
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical” — Winner
- Brooks Ashmankas, “Smash”
- Jeb Brown, “Dead Outlaw”
- Danny Burstein, “Gypsy”
- Taylor Trensch, “Floyd Collins”
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
- Kara Young, “Purpose” — Winner
- Talia Ashe, “English”
- Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”
- Marjan Neshat, “English”
- Fina Strazza, “John Proctor is the Villain”
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Natalie Venetia Belcon, “Buena Vista Social Club” — Winner
- Julia Knitel, “Dead Outlaw”
- Gracie Lawrence, “Just In Time”
- Justina Machado, “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical’
- Joy Woods, “Gypsy”
- Best Revival of a Musical
- “Sunset Blvd.” — Winner
- “Floyd Collins”
- “Gypsy”
- “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
- Best Revival of a Play
- “Eureka Day” — Winner
- “Romeo + Juliet”
- “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”
- “Yellow Face”
- Best Direction of a Play
- Sam Pinkleton, “Oh, Mary!” — Winner
- Knud Adams, “Enligsh”
- Sam Mendes, “The Hills of California”
- Danya Taymor, “John Proctor is the Villain”
- Kip Williams, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
- Best Direction of a Musical
- Michael Arden, “Maybe Happy Ending” — Winner
- Saheem Ali, “Buena Vista Social Club”
- David Cromer, “Dead Outlaw”
- Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”
- Jamie Lloyd, “Sunset Blvd.”
- Best Choreography
- Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, “Buena Vista Social Club” — Winner
- Joshua Bergasse, “Smash”
- Camille A. Brown, “Gypsy”
- Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”
- Jerry Mitchell, “Boop! The Musical”
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