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Of the nine conferences with a Division 1 basketball team in New England, four conferences do not sponsor a football team at any level (though some member schools do have a football team in other conferences). Name three.

MAAC, Atlantic-10, Big East, America East

Games

Magnus Carlsen is currently defending his world chess championship for the fourth time. Name his opponent (or, if the spelling is too daunting, give the first four letters of that opponent’s last name).

Ian Nepomniachtchi, or "Nepo"

Racing & Combat

Downhill Racer

The fall of 1969 was a banner period in the career of Robert Redford. In late September, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hit theaters; one month later saw the release of his star turn in Michael Ritchie’s movie about Olympic skiing. Another actor in that film, playing a US Ski Team assistant coach, was a law school dropout in one of his first major movie roles. Name this actor, who abandoned the nine-to-five real world for Hollywood, and would later portray a sportswriter named Slap Maxwell in a 1980’s sitcom?

Dabney Coleman