Today's Connections: Sports Edition includes some Olympics-connected sports. The yellow and green categories should be simple, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck.

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.

Today’s Connections has categories about the DL, the U.S. and more. Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #775, on July 25. Green group hint: How one might shorthand spots on the U.S. map