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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition offers a wide range of categories. If you’re having trouble solving today’s riddle but still want to solve it, read on for tips and answers.
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Tips for Connections Groups: Sports Today’s Edition
Here are four clues for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group index: Put money on an option.
Green group index: Takes place on an NFL field.
Blue group index: Think Billie Jean King.
Purple group index: Not a meadow, but…
Connections Group Answers: Today’s Sports Edition
Yellow group: Bet.
Green group: Pre-snap football moves.
Blue group: Tennis racket brands.
Purple group: ____ field.
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What are the answers from today’s Connections: Sports Edition?
NYT Connections: Sports Edition completed for March 1, 2026.
NYT/Screenshot by CNETYellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is betting. The four answers are gamble, risk, stake and gamble.
Green words in today’s Connections
The theme is pre-snap football moves. The four responses are audible, hard count, movement and shift.
Blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is tennis racket brands. The four answers are Babolat, Head, Prince and Wilson.
Purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is the ____ field. The four answers are Progressive, Right, Soldier, and Wrigley.
