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Connections: Sports Edition — August 1, 2026

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Hints — one at a time

Hint 1 of 5

Today's sports board spans golf equipment, NFL game-day terms, small-college team nicknames, and baseball-adjacent wordplay.

Hint 2 of 5

The most familiar group lists pieces of equipment you'd pull out of a golf bag.

Hint 3 of 5

Another group lists words that can pair with a football championship game — think conference title games and weather-delayed matchups.

Hint 4 of 5

A trickier group names mascots for schools in a mid-major college athletic conference stretching from Richmond to St. Louis.

Hint 5 of 5

The hardest group all precedes the word for hosiery — pairing with a minor-league mascot color, a Boston MLB team, a Chicago MLB team, and a Worcester farm team's nickname.

The answer — spoilers!

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  • yellow

    Golf Clubs

    IRON · DRIVER · HYBRID · PUTTER

  • green

    Can Precede "Bowl," In NFL Context

    SUPER · PRO · ICE · FOG

  • blue

    An Atlantic 10 Athlete

    SPIDER · RAMBLER · BILLIKEN · FLYER

  • purple

    ___ Sox

    AQUA · RED · WHITE · WOO

This puzzle by the numbers

Hardest group (purple)
___ Sox
Longest word on the board
BILLIKEN

Counted from our own archive of Connections: Sports Edition answers — not published anywhere else.

A solved Connections Sports Edition board: sixteen sports word tiles in four coloured groups of four — equipment, venues, golf scores and tennis scoring
Same rules as Connections, sports categories only. Example board, not today’s puzzle.