NYT Connection Today: Sports Tips, January 20 Answers, #119

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Today Compatibility: Sports Edition they found me again with the purple band. Fortunately, if you do well on the previous three, that one will automatically resolve itself. Read on for tips and answers to today’s Connections: Sports Edition quiz.

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Tips for today’s Connections: Sports Edition

Here are four points for today’s Connections: Sports Edition teams, which range from the simple yellow team to the purple (and sometimes weird) team.

Tips for the Yellow team: Do not climb up

Tips for the green team: Expect ten

Tips for the Blue team: Empire State Schools

Tips for the purple team: Sounds like a hoopster

Current Answers for Connections: Sports Edition Teams

Yellow group: Going down

Green group: Swimming words

Blue Team: New York colleges

Purple group: Homophones for NBA player names

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Are Today’s Connections: Sports Edition Answers?

Yellow text in current Connections

The theme is descent. The four solutions are drop, jump, slide and fall.

Green words in modern Connections

This theme is a swimming phrase. The four solutions are barrel, crest, swell and shake.

Blue text in modern Connections

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

Purple words in today’s communication

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