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Today’s issue
Game No. 534’s issue: 3 out of 5
Connections: Sports Edition hints for March 11, 2026
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Yellow: ARIZONA
Green: INNING
Blue: ST. LOUIS
Purple: BRANDON
Connections: Sports Edition answers for March 11, 2026
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Yellow
NFC West groups: ARIZONA, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE
Green
“WHIP” in baseball: WALKS, HITS, INNING, PITCHED
Blue
Hockey Hall of Famers: BOSSY, IGINLA, ORR, ST. LOUIS
Purple
_____ Belt: BLACK, BRANDON, SUN, TITLE
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
Connections: Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever sport, a every day puzzle designed for gamers to seek out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.
The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as doable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one answer, 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 simple (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (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.
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