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Looking for the most recent<\/strong>\u00a0regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n Today’s\u00a0Connections: Sports Edition\u00a0is a fun one. That purple category — oof, it’s a typical Connections brain-buster. If you’re struggling but still want to solve the puzzle, read on for hints and the answers.<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/strong>NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta<\/p>\n Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.<\/p>\n Yellow group hint<\/strong>: Bunch of players.<\/p>\n Green group hint<\/strong>: College division.<\/p>\n Blue group hint<\/strong>: Knock it out of the park.<\/p>\n Purple group hint<\/strong>: You’ll find a hidden word in these four team names.<\/p>\n Yellow group<\/strong>: Club\u00a0<\/p>\n Green group<\/strong>: ACC teams<\/p>\n Blue group<\/strong>: Hit hard, like a baseball<\/p>\n Purple group<\/strong>: Pro team names that end in another pro team name.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Oct. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n <\/span> NYT\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n The theme is club. The four answers are group, side, squad and team.<\/p>\n The theme is ACC teams. \u00a0The four answers are Demon Deacons, Eagles, Hurricanes and Wolfpack.<\/p>\n The theme is hit hard, like a baseball. The four answers are belt, club, mash and wallop.<\/p>\n The theme is pro team names that end in another pro team name. The four answers are Hornets, Red Wings, Seahawks and Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking for the most recent\u00a0regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s\u00a0Connections: Sports Edition\u00a0is a fun one. That purple category — oof, it’s a typical Connections brain-buster. If you’re struggling but still want to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[994,991,993,834,832,15157,992,831],"class_list":{"0":"post-30640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-answers","9":"tag-connections","10":"tag-edition","11":"tag-hints","12":"tag-nyt","13":"tag-oct","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-todays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\n
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups<\/h2>\n
What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?<\/h2>\n
The yellow words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The green words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The blue words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n
The purple words in today’s Connections<\/h3>\n