Welcome to Strands: Sports Edition, The Athletic’s newest daily game‎

Ready for a new daily challenge of your sports knowledge and word-finding skills? We’re pleased to bring you Strands: Sports Edition, our version of the highly popular offering from the New York Times Games team. You can play now here, and we’re releasing a puzzle each day at midnight in your local time zone. The basics are easy: You’re looking for thematic terms in a grid of 48 letters that is arranged in six columns and eight rows. One term, called a spangram, will touch opposite ends of the g