| 100% | STLOUISCITYSC | 13 | Major League Soccer expansion team in Missouri expected to play its first game in 2023 (4 wds.) |
| 75% | SANDIEGOWAVEFC | 14 | National Women's Soccer League expansion team in California expected to play its first game in 2022 (4 wds.) |
| 54% | SEATTLEKRAKEN | 13 | National Hockey League expansion team in Washington State that played its first game in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 42% | ATLANTABRAVES | 13 | Major league baseball team that plays its home games in Georgia: 2 wds. |
| 41% | STL | 3 | Mo. city whose MLS team will play its first game in 2023 |
| 40% | ORLANDO | 7 | City that played its first ever major league pro sports game in 1989 as part of the NBA expansion draft |
| 34% | DEVILRAYS | 9 | MLB expansion team that played its first regular season game against the Tigers on March 31, 1998 (2 wds.) |
| 34% | MIGHTYDUCKS | 11 | NHL team who played their first game in 1993 (and the team featured in the Disney films with cameos by the answers to the starred clues) (2 wds.) |
| 34% | ALYSSANAKKEN | 12 | First woman to coach on the field of a Major League Baseball game, for the San Francisco Giants in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 33% | DEVILRAYS | 9 | Now-renamed MLB expansion team that played its first regular season game against the Tigers on March 31, 1998 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | UTAHJAZZ | 8 | NBA team that plays its home games in Salt Lake City: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LIONELMESSI | 11 | Argentine soccer star who left a French club to play for Inter Miami in 2023: 2 wds. |
| 31% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | First Japanese-born position player to play Major League Baseball: 2 wds. |
| 31% | MIGHTYDUCKS | 11 | NHL team whose first game was played October 8, 1993 (and the team featured in the Disney films that had cameos by the answers to the starred clues) (2 wds.) |
| 31% | TEXASRANGERS | 12 | 2023 American League wildcard team that defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks to win their first World Series title (2 wds.) |
| 30% | CHICAGOCUBS | 11 | National League Central MLB team for which Chuck Connors played 66 games in their 1951 season (2 wds.) |
| 30% | MANON | 5 | ___ Rheaume, first woman to play in any of the major North American pro-sports leagues |
| 30% | MINNESOTA | 9 | ___ United FC, MLS team based in Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that plays in Western Conference of Major League Soccer(MLS) |
| 30% | JACOBY | 6 | Ellsbury who was the first Native American of Navajo descent to play in Major League Baseball |
| 29% | DRAW | 4 | It adds one point to a soccer team's standing in the English Premier League |
| 29% | MARINERS | 8 | Other than the Nationals, only current Major League Baseball team never to have played in a World Series |
| 28% | THEJETS | 7 | New York team that plays its home games in New Jersey |
| 28% | BUFFALOBILLS | 12 | Only N.F.L. team that plays its home games in New York |
| 28% | RYANHOWARD | 10 | Baseball first baseman who played his entire MLB career with the Philadelphia Phillies, before joining teams in the minor leagues: 2 wds. |
| 28% | EXTRALIFE | 9 | Another chance to play, in video games: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ICEHOCKEY | 9 | Popular winter sport whose origin may be disputed but the game in its contemporary form was first played in Montreal, Canada: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ASTROS | 6 | First baseball team to play in a dome |
| 27% | HOUSTONDYNAMO | 13 | Texas team that has won two Major League Soccer championships (2 wds.) |
| 27% | POLO | 4 | Game in which it's illegal to play left-handed |
| 27% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,653 regular-season games with the Mariners, Yankees, and Marlins: 2 wds. |