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Today’s issue
Game No. 667’s issue: 2.5 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for July 22, 2026
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Yellow: POND
Green: FIGHTER
Blue: FLATS
Purple: TIE
Connections: Sports Edition answers for July 22, 2026
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Yellow
Places the place an errant golf shot lands: BUNKER, OUT OF BOUNDS, POND, ROUGH
Green
Sports movies, with “the”: FIGHTER, KARATE KID, NATURAL, WATERBOY
Blue
College soccer stadiums, with “the”: BIG HOUSE, FLATS, HORSESHOE, SWAMP
Purple
_____ break: FAST, HYDRATION, SERVICE, TIE
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever sport, a day by day puzzle designed for gamers to search out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 based mostly on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or gadgets that appear to belong to a number of classes!
Category examples:
Sports ____ : Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
U.S. Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles
Each class group is assigned a shade, revealed as you resolve, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to difficult (purple).
Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?
That’s me! My identify is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for school sports activities right here at The Athletic. I used to be beforehand The Athletic’s managing editor for breaking information.
The subsequent puzzle will probably be accessible at midnight in your time zone. Thanks for taking part in — and share your scores within the feedback!