Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today's Connections: Sports Edition could be tricky.

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words.

NYT Connections answers June 6 puzzle challenges players with clever word groupings, especially the tricky purple category hiding dog breeds inside bigger words. Today’s puzzle groups include newspaper jobs,