Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for April 24, 2026, puzzle No. 578

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Game No. 578’s issue: 2.5 out of 5

Connections: Sports Edition hints for April 24, 2026

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Yellow: FLY

Green: MOUNTAIN

Blue: ENGLISH

Purple: GRADE

Connections: Sports Edition answers for April 24, 2026

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Yellow

Move easily: COAST, FLY, GLIDE, SOAR

Green

First phrases of school conferences: ATLANTIC, BIG, MOUNTAIN, SOUTHEASTERN

Blue

Basketball Hall of Famers: ENGLISH, HILL, PIERCE, WEST

Purple

ROAD _____: GAME, GRADE, RACE, TRIP

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

Connections: Sports Edition is TheAthletic‘s first-ever sport, a day by day puzzle designed for gamers to seek out connections between 16 phrases on the sport board.

The sport’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 based mostly on commonalities inside every group as shortly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one answer, so be careful for phrases or gadgets that appear to belong to a number of classes!

Category examples:
Sports ____: Fan, Car, Bar, Radio
US Summer Olympians: Biles, Phelps, Ledecky, Lyles

Each class group is assigned a colour, revealed as you resolve, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (purple).

Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?

That’s me! My title is Mark Cooper, and I create Connections: Sports Edition and work as a managing editor for faculty sports activities right here at TheAthletic. I used to be beforehand TheAthletic‘s managing editor for breaking information.

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