Extra points: Media column gravy I

More football stuff to start the NFL season, before the launch of the Friday media column:

==Fred Roggin's "The Challenge" on KNBC-Channel 4 (linked here), the interactive sports trivia game that gives away stuff like flat-screen TV sets and vacation packages to those who endure the entire season and rack up the most points, makes a return following the NBC Sunday night NFL telecast, but with a few more alterations:
=It's back to a half hour, after trying to expand last season to a full hour.
=By answering at least the first two questions, or the last two, there's a chance to win at the end of the show. Starting in week 2, there'll be giving away three prizes per show.
=The questions are shorter: Only three possible answers instead of four.
Again, the concept: Be on your computer when the Sunday night game ends, or watch it from a sports bar and have your cell phone handy to text the answers, and see how much you know. Unfortunately, we'll be away from the TV set for the season debut, so when we begin in Week 2, you'll have the advantage in the annual "Challenge the Stupid Sportswriter" contest we try to pull off.

==The Southern California TV alignment for this weekend's games:
Sunday:
=New York Jets at Miami (Channel 2, 10 a.m.) with Jim Nantz and Phil Simms (while the San Diego market gets Kansas City-New England as opposed to Houston-Pittsburgh, Cincinnati-Baltimore and Jacksonville-Tennessee)
=Tampa Bay at New Orleans (Channel 11, 10 a.m.) with Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick (as opposed to St. Louis-Philadelphia, Seattle-Buffalo and Detroit-Atlanta)
=Dallas at Cleveland (Channel 11, 1:15 p.m.) with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman (as opposed to, surpringly, Carolina-San Diego and Arizona-San Francisco)
=Chicago at Philadelphia (Channel 4, 5:15 p.m.) with Al Michaels and John Madden
Monday:
=Minnesota at Green Bay (ESPN, 4 p.m.) with Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser
=Denver at Oakland (ESPN, 7:15 p.m.) with Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic and Mike Ditka)

==ESPN, which has reunited Chris Berman with John Saunders and Tom Jackson for a Sunday 4 p.m. "SportsCenter" that will focus more on rehashing the day's NFL coverage, also has its lineup of stories ready for the "Sunday NFL Countdown" (8 a.m.), hosted by Berman with Jackson, Mike Ditka, Steve Young, Chris Mortensen, Keyshawn Johnson and Cris Carter (but no more Emmitt Smith).
About the only one we've vauguely interested in: The "Mayne Event' segment take a look at "how the New York media is reacting to Brett Favre's arrival, from the eyes of three 'fringe' reporters." We have no more explanation than that.
And there's no more scheduled appearances by that 10-year-old kid from Chicago, Jason "Takin' it to the" Krause. Which, really, is fine with us.