Lady Gaga won a Sports Emmy before even trying to win a Tony? Judas! Gaga won her first Emmy Award on May 20 — a Sports Emmy for Best Music Direction for her pre–Super Bowl performance of “Hold My Hand” on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Dedicated to the victims of a New Year’s Day attack, in which a man drove his truck into a crowd, leaving 14 people dead, Gaga played piano alongside a band and choir. The Sports Emmys were hosted by Roy Wood Jr. at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Gaga beat Prime Video’s Evolution of the Black Quarterback, HBO’s The Lionheart, ESPN+’s “Noche UFC: For Mexico, for All Time,” and Netflix’s The Turnaround.

With this award, Gaga is now technically just one Tony Award away from an EGOT. Of course, she has won multiple Grammys, most recently Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Bruno Mars for “Die With a Smile,” and an Oscar for Best Original Song for A Star Is Born’s “Shallow.” If she were to win a Tony, Gaga would become the first EGOT winner to do so with a Sports Emmy. All previous winners won their EGOT with either a Primetime or a Daytime Emmy. She was previously nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for her 2016 Super Bowl LI halftime-show performance — an award she lost to the 2016 Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden. Has she just been avoiding Broadway out of spite?

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 Winning a Sports Emmy before a Tony does feel cosmically wrong.