Here are the hints and completed answers for NYT Connections: Sports Edition #573 (April 19), including AL East teams and Premier League managers.
Looking for a quick path through today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition? Here are hints and the full set of answers for April 19 (#573), with a few extra clues to help you spot the patterns.
For today’s puzzle. Misryoum found the game leaning hard into familiar sports categories—starting with the blue and purple groups that tend to feel the most “bizarre” when you’re not in the right mindset.. If you’re stuck. the good news is that each color group is built around a tight theme. so once you catch the framing. the rest usually clicks.
Yellow group hint (easiest): Play ball. In Misryoum’s solution set, that category lands on **AL East teams**: **Blue Jays, Orioles, Rays, Yankees**. It’s a straightforward set if you’re thinking in terms of MLB divisions rather than individual franchises across the league.
Green group hint: Gridiron roles. This one is all about the *first words* of common football position descriptions. Misryoum’s answers are **defensive, running, tight, wide**—a reminder that Connections often rewards wordplay like prefixes and standard phrasing, not just the concept itself.
Blue group hint: Like Ted Lasso.. That cultural reference cues the Premier League coaching world.. Misryoum’s completed blue category is **Premier League managers**: **Emery, Guardiola, Moyes, Slot**.. If you recognized the “coach” vibe from the show but needed the specific names. these are the puzzle’s intended match-ups.
Where today’s tricky purple category lands
Purple group hint: LA team that came from Brooklyn.. The theme is *nicknames for the Dodgers franchise, over time*.. Misryoum’s purple answers are **Bridegrooms, Dodgers, Robins, Superbas**.. The key is historical: the Dodgers brand didn’t start with the modern name. and the puzzle is fishing for the earlier monikers.
The patterns underneath the sports themes
Misryoum sees a common thread across all four groups: today’s Connections isn’t only testing sports knowledge—it’s testing whether you can jump between leagues. eras. and “starter” framing.. AL East teams ask you to think geographically.. Football roles ask you to think linguistically (the first word of a position phrase).. Premier League managers ask you to think culturally through coaching archetypes.. The Dodgers nicknames ask you to zoom out into history.
That mix is why the game can feel unpredictable even when the answers are “fair.” Connections often builds categories that look unrelated at first glance, then rewards the solver once they identify the mechanism—division grouping, phrase components, role-based naming, or historical evolution.
From a practical standpoint. this is also a good example of how to approach any stuck round: don’t just hunt for sports trivia.. Instead. look for the shared *format*—names of teams. the first word of positions. the category label implied by a pop-culture reference. or time-based nicknames.. Once you lock in the format, the remaining words usually fall into place quickly.
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