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Today’s issue
Game No. 624’s issue: 3 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for June 9, 2026
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Yellow: SAINTS
Green: SOUTHERN
Blue: LONDON
Purple: SOUTHAMPTON
Connections: Sports Edition answers for June 9, 2026
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Yellow
NFC South groups: BUCCANEERS, FALCONS, PANTHERS, SAINTS
Green
Louisiana faculties: LOUISIANA, LSU, SOUTHERN, TULANE
Blue
USC WRs in NFL: LONDON, PITTMAN, SMITH-SCHUSTER, ST. BROWN
Purple
Locations of this 12 months’s males’s golf majors: AUGUSTA, NEWTOWN SQUARE, SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHPORT
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever recreation, a every day puzzle designed for gamers to seek out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The recreation’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 based mostly on commonalities inside every group as shortly as potential. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one resolution, so be careful for phrases or objects 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 coloration, 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 title is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for faculty sports activities right here at The Athletic. I used to be beforehand The Athletic’s managing editor for breaking information.
The subsequent puzzle shall be obtainable at midnight in your time zone. Thanks for enjoying — and share your scores within the feedback!