NYT Connections Sports Edition hints & answers: Monday, July 13, 2026

Updated: Monday, July 13, 2026 · Hints reviewed by Omer Liban · New puzzle daily at midnight local time — free from The Athletic. · Puzzle editor: Mark Cooper.

This page has every level of help for the NYT Connections Sports Edition puzzle of Monday, July 13, 2026: 3 spoiler-free hint tiers that narrow things down step by step, followed by the complete answers with explanations — each behind its own tap-to-reveal card.

Stuck on today's Sports Edition? Same drill as regular Connections: work the tiers below from a single answer per group up to the full explained solution, revealing only as much as you want.

Connections: Sports Edition works exactly like regular Connections — four colour-coded groups from easiest 🟡 yellow to trickiest 🟣 purple — but every category is sports: players, teams, rules, moments. It's made by The Athletic and free to play.

Sports Connections hints (July 13, 2026)

1One answer from each group

Yellow (easiest): one of its answers is “DIRT”.
Green (easy): one of its answers is “JAYHAWKS”.
Blue (tricky): one of its answers is “INTER MIAMI”.
Purple (trickiest, usually wordplay): one of its answers is “ROCK”.

2Category hints (no answers)

Yellow (easiest): the theme is “Materials found on a baseball field”.
Green (easy): the theme is “Teams in kansas”.
Blue (tricky): the theme is “Lionel messi teams”.
Purple (trickiest, usually wordplay): the theme is “Starts of mlb team names”.

3One full group revealed

Yellow (easiest) — the connection is “Materials found on a baseball field”, and its four answers are: DIRT, GRASS, CHALK, RUBBER.

Sports Connections answers — July 13, 2026

★Today's full Sports Connections answers, explained

Yellow (easiest) — the connection is “Materials found on a baseball field”. The answers: DIRT, GRASS, CHALK, RUBBER.
Green (easy) — the connection is “Teams in kansas”. The answers: JAYHAWKS, WILDCATS, SHOCKERS, SPORTING KC.
Blue (tricky) — the connection is “Lionel messi teams”. The answers: INTER MIAMI, ARGENTINA, BARCELONA, PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN.
Purple (trickiest, usually wordplay) — the connection is “Starts of mlb team names”. The answers: ROCK, BLUE, WHIT, MARL.

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Sports Connections — common questions

How is Connections Sports Edition different from regular Connections?

Same rules — sort sixteen answers into four colour-coded groups — but every category is sports: players, teams, rules, kits, moments. It's made by The Athletic (the NYT's sports newsroom), it's free, and it lives on The Athletic's site rather than the NYT Games app.

What time does Sports Connections reset?

At midnight in your own local timezone, like Wordle — not at midnight Eastern like regular Connections. Wherever you are, the new puzzle arrives when your clock strikes twelve.

What do the colours mean in Sports Connections?

The same difficulty ladder as regular Connections: yellow is the easiest group, then green, then blue, and purple is the trickiest — often wordplay or a sneaky link between the leftover answers.

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