Andrea Kremer on Laurent Duvernay-Tardif's heroic frontline battle against COVID-19

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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As the COVID pandemic rages on and sports leagues begin to address returning to play, this podcast is temporarily taking a look back at a story that may be of interest not only to Kansas City fans, but all fans interested in the convergence of sports this health crisis.As has been widely reported, Chiefs starting right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has been spending his offseason not training for Kansas City's Super Bowl defense or locked up in quarantine, but serving as a doctor in the battle against Coronavirus at a facility in his hometown of Montreal, Quebec.In 2018, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel covered Duvernay-Tardif's foray as the first active NFL player to graduate from medical school. On Tuesday night, Andrea Kremer followed up the segment with an update on how "Larry" is coping with his new position and the heroic risk he is taking by putting his duty as a medical doctor ahead of his career as a football player.To discuss this segment and much more, Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson are joined by the legendary journalist and two-time Emmy award-winning broadcaster Andrea Kremer. In addition to Andrea's brilliant work on Duvernay-Tardif, they also chat about her contributions to ESPN's The Last Dance, as well as ethics in journalism.Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Yes, sir, sir, welcome to the Yahoo Sports Interfield Podcast.
0:14.0	I'm Yahoo Senior NFL Rader Torres-Payler.
0:17.0	Here my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson and Charles,
0:21.0	feeling like doing some journalism right now, man?
0:24.0	Yeah, yes, I'm here for it.
0:27.0	I am absolutely here for it.
0:28.0	I can't wait.
0:29.0	I cannot wait for people to hear this.
0:31.0	The reason I ask Charles that is because we just concluded an
0:34.0	interview with a legend in the business. Andrea Kramer was obviously a
0:37.6	correspondent on HBO's Real Sports right now and we went for 40 plus
0:41.9	minutes on her interview with Chief's Guard,
0:45.8	La Rond duvene Tardif, who's obviously like battling the COVID-19
0:49.8	pandemic on the front line.
0:51.9	As a medical doctor.
0:53.0	She has a really interesting piece in the latest real sports that just came out about that.
0:57.0	And we talk about that, why she's so interested in Larry's story, but we talked about a lot more than that, didn't we?
1:06.4	The Last Dance.
1:07.8	And I think one specific subject, I think you'll really appreciate Charles that we both did journalism advice if you are an
1:15.5	aspiring journalist or you're someone interested in how the media does his job
1:18.9	I think this is a great podcast for you this is a great interview for you right? Yeah absolutely I I would express to people that not only
1:27.2	do we do 40 to 45 minutes Trest and I did like 20 before and 20 after so it was like 80 minutes working out.
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