Today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle features a range of sports-related topics, offering players a chance to engage with various themes. This edition, published by The Athletic, is not available on the NYT Games app but can be accessed through The Athletic's own platform or played for free online.
The puzzle includes four distinct groupings, with hints provided to assist players. The easiest category, marked with yellow, focuses on football receiving routes, while the green group emphasizes the first names of Hall of Fame centers. The blue group highlights winners of the French Open men's singles, and the more challenging purple category references notable events related to the term gate.
Answers for the categories reveal the following: the yellow group features the words curl, drag, fade, and out; the green group lists Bill, Hakeem, Kareem, and Wilt; the blue group includes Borg, Courier, Laver, and Nadal; and the purple group presents bounty, deflate, spy, and tail.