Kremer gets more playing time with sideline blog

It's a fantasy come true for fantasy football players.

And a chance for sideline reporters to get off the sidelines and get more involved.

Old faces in new places

Spero Dedes, Marshall Faulk and Warren Sapp will all be taking on new roles with the start of the NFL season.

Dedes, the Lakers' radio play-by-play man, will host a two-hour NFL Network Sunday show, "NFL GameDay Morning," beginning at 7 a.m. Faulk and Sapp will join Dedes as analysts.

While Dedes welcomes the opportunity to expand his resume, the 29-year-old announcer, beginning his fourth season with the Lakers, stresses this is not an audition for a career shift.

"It's exactly the opposite," he said. "The Laker job is something I appreciate every day. It's what I want to do. I won't miss any Laker games because of this."

A common cause

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will join athletes, actors and musicians on tonight's "Stand Up to Cancer" special, to be broadcast on ABC, NBC and CBS beginning at 8. Tom Lasorda and Don Newcombe will represent the Dodgers on the phone banks during the one-hour telethon.

On the tube

The first Sunday of the NFL kicks off at 10 a.m. with the New York Jets, led by Brett Favre, at Miami (CBS) and Tampa Bay at New Orleans (Fox). The second game of a Fox doubleheader is Dallas at Cleveland at 1:15. NBC has Chicago at Indianapolis at 5 p.m. ESPN opens the Monday night season with a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m. It's Minnesota at Green Bay followed by Denver at Oakland. . . . The U.S. Open tennis championship on CBS concludes with the women's final Saturday (5 p.m.) and the men's final Sunday (1 p.m.)

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steve.springer@latimes.com