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

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #756, on July 6.