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Weekend Plans With Andrea Kremer: Juggling Media/Academic Roles, Finding Family Time

For much of her career as a trailblazing and accomplished sports journalist, ANDREA KREMER had fairly well-defined roles for ESPN and then NBC Sports. But when she left her job as NBC's NFL sideline reporter in '11, she got a chance to forge her own path to an even greater degree. The two-time Emmy winner since '07 has reported for HBO's "Real Sports," and she also serves as an NFL.com correspondent while co-hosting CBS Sports Network's "We Need To Talk." On Friday, she hosts the BU College of Communication's second annual Sports Summit with the theme, "What's Next In Sports," an event she created and booked all the speakers for. Kremer also teaches a course at BU, and the event grew out of her receiving the school's ANDREW R. LACK Fellowship in '15 and collaborating with fellow BU professor SUSAN WALKER.

CONFERENCE CALLING: Last year, we had 18 speakers and five panels. This year we decided to make it a little smaller since it's Good Friday, with four panels and 14 speakers. My students are really involved. They have to help to produce the video openings for each panel, and I empower them to contribute to the talking points. In creating this event, having been to a lot of conferences, we've got to say, "What do we like? What do we not like?" After a while, how many different panels can you see of people just sitting there talking? Which is why we wanted to break it up with these video elements -- something to advance the conversation. But it's ambitious technically. 

GIVE ME A BREAK: When I stopped doing 'Sunday Night Football' in '11, my husband (archaeologist JOHN STEINBERG) and I realized that we had known each other for 20 years and never had spent weekends together. My husband kept thinking, "Well, now I have to entertain her." I said, "No, no. Go and do what you want. I'm very happy to sit and watch football. I've never been able to do this in my life." Now, I guard my weekends very jealously. There are times I still have to work, but I don't always have to travel unless I'm shooting a story. I did game reporting for so long, and I'm grateful I got the opportunity, and it was great. But I must admit that I do not miss it. Having a son who is going to go to college in the not-too-distant future, I'd like to hold onto that time for as much as he's going to be around. The simple things, like family dinner on a weekend, turn out to be important.

SUPER BOWL SUNDAYS: NBC "SNF" Exec Producer FRED GAUDELLI, in my opinion, is the best live event producer of our generation, and he and I have known each other my entire professional life. He'd be the first one to tell you that he's not a guy that's given to sentimentality. But the morning of Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, I awoke to an email from him, where he basically said, "Not sure we're going to get a private moment today. But I want you to think about, when you're standing on the field before the game, your parents up in heaven looking down on you, that little girl who used to sleep on her NFL sheets. And take that in, appreciate how far you've come." It's 7:00 the morning of the Super Bowl, and I'm bawling. But I did what he suggested, and I probably had one of my best games ever, on the biggest stage.

JOB(S) SEARCH: Even though it's Easter weekend and I'll be recovering from this event at BU, I'll be in prep mode for "We Need To Talk," which starts its spring run on the 24th. There's always a "What's Next?" That's what I love about my jobs. Another show, another project, another story.

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