NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for July 25, 2026

Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you ever went to school in North Carolina. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier, so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.