KU AD Jeff Long to join Missouri counterpart Jim Sterk in online COVID-19 discussion

By Matt Tait Jun 15, 2020

Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long and his Mizzou counterpart, Jim Sterk, will share their thoughts on COVID-19’s impact on college sports in an online discussion Tuesday.

The event, which is being organized by the Kansas City Public Library, is slated for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on the library’s YouTube channel. Former USA Today sportswriter Steve Wieberg will be hosting the discussion.

The website announcing the event says most of the event will be about the pandemic’s impact on sports. However, it says Long and Sterk are also expected to touch on the role student-athletes are playing in various protests and demonstrations for social justice across the country.

The two ADs are also expected to discuss their schools’ Border Showdown rivalry, which was recently renewed and is scheduled to return this season when the men’s basketball teams face each other on Dec. 12 at Sprint Center. It will mark the first official game between the rivals since 2012. The football programs also are renewing the rivalry with a four-game series slated to begin in 2025.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.