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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 28, #643

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Why This Matters

This puzzle highlights the integration of sports themes into popular brain games, reflecting the growing intersection of entertainment and sports culture in the digital age. For consumers and the tech industry, it demonstrates how gaming platforms can diversify content to engage wider audiences, especially sports fans, through interactive and themed puzzles.

Key Takeaways

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.

The World Cup is swinging into the knockout round, and today's Connections: Sports Edition includes a World Cup category. If you're struggling with the 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.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

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: Very cool!

Green group hint: Hoops data.

Blue group hint: Allez les Bleus!

Purple group hint: Where the dunking happens.

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