🔥🎤 Alright fam, grab your popcorn because today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition is about to hit different! 🚀🎮 🧩 **Puzzle No. 313**: More thrilling than that time my mom caught me playing Fortnite instead of studying! 📚💀 🍔 Here’s the tea 🥤: If you’ve got the brain power of a squirrel on caffeine, fear not! 🤡🐿️ I got you with some *heavily researched* hints 😂: 1. Think of sports where people literally jump through hoops like they’re training for a circus 🤹‍♂️🙃. 2. We also got balls — the bouncy kind, not the ones your ex gave you (cope, seethe) 🏀🍑. 3. Don't sleep on races that’ll get your heart racing faster than my internet connection during a Zoom call with my boss: laggy 😩💨. Leaked developer quote: “Honestly, I just picked the first 4 sports I thought of while waiting for my coffee!” ☕🤖 And let's be real, if you can’t solve this, just scream “this is fine” and pretend to be a professional procrastinator! 🔥🤷‍♂️ **Unhinged prediction**: Brace yourselves, in 5 years, NYT is releasing a *VR sports experience* where you can *actually* play with players through a virtual reality pizza party. 🍕👾 Based or cringe? You decide! 💭✨