Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Tips, Answers for January 20 #119

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Today Connections: Sports Edition it came back to me with the purple category. Fortunately, if you do OK on the previous three, that one will resolve itself by default. Read on for hints and answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle.

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Tips for today’s Connections groups: Sports Edition

Here are four suggestions for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the hard (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group tip: Don’t go up

Green group advice: Hang ten

Blue group tip: Empire State Schools

Purple group tip: He sounds like a hoopster

Answers for today’s Connections groups: Sports Edition

yellow group: lowered

Green group: Navigation terms

Blue Group: the colleges of New York

Violet Group: Homophones of NBA player names

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What are the answers today of Connections: Sports Edition?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is the decline. The four answers are decline, dip, skid and slump.

The green words in today’s Connections

The topic is the terms of navigation. The four answers are barrel, crest, swell and wave.

Blue words in today’s Connections

The topic is New York colleges. The four answers are Colgate, Columbia, St. John’s and Syracuse.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The topic is the homophones of NBA players’ names. The four answers are Barns, Connect, Heart and Hero.