NYT Connections Sports Edition #477: Hints and Solutions for January 13

Each day, the New York Times invites sports fans to find order in apparent chaos — sixteen words, four hidden threads, one chance to prove that knowledge stretches across eras, coasts, and disciplines. Puzzle 477 of Connections: Sports Edition arrived on January 13th asking players to move fluidly between New York franchises, fencing's French vocabulary, college basketball's cathedral arenas, and the curious fact that four famous Bills have all coached the Buffalo Bills. It is, in its quiet way, a small meditation on how much we carry inside us without knowing it — and how a single word can be