Today’s NYT links: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for January 26, #125

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Links: Sports Edition There is one of these purple categories today that cause players to tear their hair. Words are not really sports words, but they sound like a sports word. OOF. Read about hints and answers for today’s links: a puzzle for a sports edition.

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Tips for today’s Links: Sports Edition Groups

Here are four hints for the groups in today’s links: a puzzle of the sports edition, ranked by the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow Group Hint: Things don’t look.

Green group hint: Attach ten.

Blue Group Hint: Empire State Education.

Purple Group Tip: It sounds like a hoop.

Answers to today’s Links: Sports Edition Groups

Yellow group: Decline.

Green group: Surfing conditions.

Blue Group: New York Colleges.

Purple group: NBA Player Names Homophones.

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What are today’s links: The answers to the sports edition?

The yellow words in today’s relationships

The topic is a decline. The four answers decrease, dip, slide and drop.

The green words in today’s relationships

The topic is the terms for surfing. The four answers are barrel, comb, swelling and wool.

The blue words in today’s relationships

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

Purple words in today’s relationships

The theme is the homophones of the names of NBA players. The four answers are barns, connection, heart and hero.