Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for April 23, 2026, puzzle No. 577

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Game No. 577’s problem: 3 out of 5

Connections: Sports Edition hints for April 23, 2026

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Yellow: ROUND

Green: NFL

Blue: CAL

Purple: MARYLAND

Connections: Sports Edition answers for April 23, 2026

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Yellow

Draft choose info: ROUND, PICK, POSITION, ALMA MATER

Green

Can precede “draft”: FANTASY, MOCK, NFL, SUPPLEMENTAL

Blue

Associated with Fernando Mendoza: CAL, HEISMAN, INDIANA, QB

Purple

Non-QBs picked first in NFL Draft: FISHER, LONG, MARYLAND, PACE

What is Connections: Sports Edition?

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

The recreation’s goal is to group phrases or objects into 4 teams of 4 primarily based on commonalities inside every group as rapidly as attainable. Find the teams with out making 4 errors. Each puzzle has precisely one answer, so be careful for phrases or objects 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 coloration, revealed as you remedy, starting from easy (yellow) to medium (inexperienced) to difficult (blue) to tough (purple).

Who creates the puzzles for Connections: Sports Edition?

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