Connections: Sports Edition — August 1, 2026
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!
Reveal the full answer
Golf Clubs
IRON · DRIVER · HYBRID · PUTTER
Can Precede "Bowl," In NFL Context
SUPER · PRO · ICE · FOG
An Atlantic 10 Athlete
SPIDER · RAMBLER · BILLIKEN · FLYER
___ Sox
AQUA · RED · WHITE · WOO
This puzzle by the numbers
- ___ Sox
- BILLIKEN
Counted from our own archive of Connections: Sports Edition answers — not published anywhere else.
