Sports Edition answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections: Sports Edition, every day.

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Today’s four groups followed a deceptively simple theme structure: each one related to an ordinal number, First, Second, Third, and Last, but figuring that out required more than just a hunch.