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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a mix. It helps to know your football, and also, perhaps, to be from a certain mountainous city. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.
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Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Rocky Mountain high.
Green group hint: Gridiron game.
Blue group hint: Big bosses.
Purple group hint: Certain college conference.
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: Denver teams.
Green group: Words that come before
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Dec. 8 #441
