Join Max Portman as he interviews Dr Dan Covell of Western New England University, Massachusetts in the United States to talk about his recently published article in our journal 'Sport in History' titled ‘Strictly a power play’: Jack Langer and Yale University versus the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

In what is an aptly-timed interview with the NCAA's premier competition, March Madness, in full swing, Max and Dan discuss how Jack Langer's appearance at the Maccabiah games, often called the "Jewish Olympics," and a major international multi-sport event organized by the Maccabi World Union every four years in Israel, featuring Jewish and Israeli athletes of any religion in 1969, created a political storm in what was already a tense and difficult political relationship with the multiple organisations that were prevalent in American Collegiate sports at the time. These organisations including the mentioned Yale University and the Ivy League Colleges, the mentioned NCAA and the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union).

During this interview they discuss how this political storm had been growing for many years prior and how the effects of it are still felt today, with the potential end of the NCAA, the weakening in power of the AAU and Yale looking at a future free of NCAA control. If you're a fan of collegiate sports, America or just enjoy your sports history and politics, then this is the episode for you.

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