Today's Connections: Sports Edition presents a challenging puzzle featuring numerous proper nouns. For those seeking assistance, hints and the answers are available online, alongside daily solutions for various other games like Wordle and the Mini Crossword.
Published by The Athletic, this puzzle does not appear in the NYT Games app but can be accessed through The Athletic's own application or played for free on their website.
Hints for today's groupings include: Yellow group – gap between two opponents; Green group – skier's essentials; Blue group – manufacturers of baseball gloves; and Purple group – players in the NFL punting role. The corresponding answers for each theme are: advantage, edge, lead, margin; boots, poles, skis, snow; Mizuno, Nike, Rawlings, Wilson; and Anger, Haack, Stout, Way.
For those interested, the completed puzzle for December 24, 2025 is also available for viewing.