Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Today’s four groups followed a deceptively simple theme structure: each one related to an ordinal number, First, Second, Third, and Last, but figuring that out required more than just a hunch.