Building on the runaway success of Wordle, the New York Times broadened its puzzle offerings with the launch of NYT Connections — a daily word association game that has steadily gained a devoted fan base.

Drop the puck! Here are hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 254, for June 4.

Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate ...