Connections Sports Edition #727 hints and answers
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Crab cakes, Chesapeake breezes, four proud nicknames
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All four nicknames belong to teams based in the same Chesapeake Bay state.
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One of the four: TERRAPINS
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MARYLAND TEAMS: MIDSHIPMEN, TERRAPINS, ORIOLES, RAVENS
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Hockey packed the moving truck and left town
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Each place once hosted a pro hockey franchise that later relocated somewhere else.
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One of the four: QUEBEC CITY
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FORMER NHL CITIES: QUEBEC CITY, HARTFORD, ATLANTA, PHOENIX
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New faces catching passes on Sundays this fall
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Surnames of first-year pass catchers in pro football, most drafted this past spring.
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One of the four: LEMON
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NFL ROOKIE WRS: LEMON, TATE, TYSON, BOSTON
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A pilot on the radio would recognize these
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Standard code words used over military and aviation radio that also sound like sports talk.
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One of the four: UNIFORM
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SPORTS TERMS IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET: GOLF, UNIFORM, VICTOR, YANKEE
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