The Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for today features a particularly challenging purple category that plays with word spellings. Users seeking assistance can find hints and solutions online, though the puzzle is not available in the NYT Games app.
Published by The Athletic, which is owned by The Times, this puzzle can be played for free through their dedicated app or website. The completed puzzle reveals themes grouped by color, with the yellow group focusing on fishing terms, the green group on baserunning outcomes, the blue group on members of the Chicago Bears, and the purple group on altered names of MLS teams.
Today's answers for the yellow group include bobber, hook, lure, and reel. The green group features pickle, pickoff, steal, and tag. Members of the Chicago Bears represented in the blue group are Kmet, Loveland, Sweat, and Swift. Lastly, the purple group comprises altered MLS team names: founders (Sounders), hire (Fire), limbers (Timbers), and onion (Union).