on February 24th, 2010 by Brett Lewis
CONGRATULATIONS! You just pulled a redemption! Could it be Percy Harvin or Michael Crabtree? Maybe it’s one of the big name Quarterbacks like Mark Sanchez, Matthew Stafford, or Josh Freeman. Or even a top tier Running Back like Knowshon Moreno, Shonn Greene, Beanie Wells, or Donald Brown. Worst case scenario is a Nicks, Britt, Cushing, Matthews, Oher, Wallace, or some [...]
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on February 24th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White announced today via Twitter that Topps officials have randomly inserted into the just-released 2010 Topps UFC Main Event 10 cards bearing autographs from White and fellow UFC luminaries Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz.
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on February 24th, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
For the second straight week congratulations go out to Michael Molinaro who
scored a 10 last week to Beat the Blogger’s to beat the field to win this week’s
Beat the Blogger contest. Last week’s results are below.
This week’s matchups and the Blogger picks are now posted below so make sure you get
your picks posted before the start of the first game on Saturday.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends on Facebook, Twitter and
anywhere else so they can be a part of the action and we can boost our total list
of contestants, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
With the number of weekly participants slipping a bit the last few weeks I’m making
a call to action to all of our regulars to do some recruiting. While more people
means more work for the Blogger and more people for the Blogger to go up against,
I welcome the challenge and offer this challenge to you: If each player can recruit
10 new players and we can boost the total to 200 or more, I’ll triple the weekly prize.
So spread the word about the contest to all your co-workers, family and friends
and meet that goal and boost the prize.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends so they can be a part of the action, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
This week’s winners are posted below so check to see how you fared against
the field.
While I enjoy giving prizes to several people vs. having just one weekly winner, from
this point forward contestants will be asked to provide a tie-breaker on the week’s
last game so we narrow our winner down to one. Contestants will now b
e
asked to predict the total score from the last game on the list and the closest to
the actual score will be deemed the winner). I’ll also require contestants
to post their e-mail address with their picks so I can track down the winners
easier.
For those unfamiliar with the Beat the Blogger contest, the idea is simple.
The Blogger posts 10 matchups each week and then selects his choices for the winners
of those matchups. Contestants enter the Beat the Blogger contest by clicking on
the “Comment” section below the post with the matchups and then select their
own 10 winners. You can also designate one of your picks as a “Doubler” and
you will receive an extra point if you’re correct so don’t forget to designate your
“Doubler” pick and increase your chances of winning. If you Beat The Blogger’s
total and post the high score for the week, you win. The regular weekly
prize is an authentic signed 8-by-10 color photo of stars such as LaDainian
Tomlinson, Drew Brees, Marshall Faulk, Santonio Holmes, Gale Sayers, Catfish
Hunter and many more. From time to time, the Blogger will sweeten the pot for
the weekly contest so look for special prize packages.
This week’s matchups with Blogger picks in parenthesis
Saturday & Sunday, Feb. 27-28
NCAA Basketball
Kansas at Oklahoma State (Kansas)
Kentucky at Tennessee (Kentucky)
Villanova at Syracuse (Syracuse)
New Mexico at BYU (New Mexico)
North Carolina at Wake Forest (Wake Forest)
Michigan State at Purdue (Michigan State)
NBA
Milwaukee at Miami (Milwaukee)
Houston at Utah (Houston)
Detroit at Golden State (Detroit)(Doubler)
Phoenix at San Antonio (San Antonio)
Tiebreaker: Total points in Phoenix/San Antonio game (205 )
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on February 24th, 2010 by admin
2010 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball is scheduled to release on 25 Jun and will cost about $90 per hobby box. Each box will contain 24 packs with eight cards per pack. Collectors can expect a combination of any THREE of the following cards per box:
- Autograph
- Cut Signature
- Rip
- Relic
- Printing Plate
- One Box [...]
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on February 24th, 2010 by SpastikMooss
Hey everyone,I thought I’d let you know that the GSNHOF now has a fan page on Facebook. I was debating doing this for a while, as I don’t know how often I’ll use it (I already deleted my twitter and am lazy about ballhype), but I think a FB fan page c…
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on February 24th, 2010 by JD's Daddy
I like gooooold! More specifically Topps Gold. No, no, no….not gold variations…that would be far too valuable. No, I am talking about Toppstown gold variations! Oh yeah! Can ya dig it?Why on earth would I want such a horrific insert? Its quite simp…
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on February 24th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Andre Dawson 2002 Upper Deck – A Piece Of History
This card is an absolute GEM!!!
With incredible design features and superb quality, this modern-era card probably ranks in my Top 10 of cards issued of Andre since 2000.
I like how Upper Deck used both B&W and color photography together. I have seen this done in the [...]
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on February 24th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 24th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 24th, 2010 by Doc
Being that I deal with professionals on a daily basis that have to fill out countless forms, applications, etc., and are expected to know how to read instructions, I have found myself flummoxed and/or lazy.Would someone please help me figure out how to…
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on February 24th, 2010 by admin
A giant trading card of Los Angeles Lakers All-Star Kobe Bryant unveiled today by Panini America set the Guinness Record for World’s Largest Signed Game-Used Jersey Card. Bryant was at the NBA All-Star Jam Session to autograph the card, which includes a 15-inch-by-15-inch swatch of an official jersey he wore in a game. The [...]
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on February 24th, 2010 by T.S.
A couple of months ago I wrote in one of my Sports Collectors Digest columns
that Upper Deck was adding Joe Jackson to its lineup for 2010 baseball issues
and suggested that wouldn’t it then make sense to consider bringing Pete Rose along
as well.
Turns out, Upper Deck was way ahead of me, and within a couple of weeks
of that column company officials announced that Pete had indeed been included in their
2010 releases (shown here, courtesy of www.4192cards.com website).
“Despite his current ban from baseball, Pete Rose’s signature and game-used
memorabilia cards continue to be sought-after by baseball fans and card collectors
everywhere,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s baseball brand manager. “We are extremely
excited to have Pete be a part of our newest baseball card releases.”
The first Upper Deck product that will include Rose’s game-used memorabilia
cards is 2010 Goudey Baseball, which is scheduled to hit store shelves on March 18.
Chuck Lumb, arguably the world’s greatest Pete Rose fan and the
reader who sent me the link to the mega-cool website (www.4192cards.com) e-mailed
me about my column and reminded me that Pete had indeed a lot of cards over the last
three years.
Since I had said something about how being on MLB’s Permanently Ineligible
List had “reportedly kept both players from appearing in baseball card issues that
carried the Major League Baseball imprimatur,” at first I thought I had made a mistake.
I quickly went to the website (created by Stephen Schauer), and lo and behold, Lumb
wasn’t kidding when he said there were “a lot” of Pete Rose cards over the last three
years.
Most cultures would consider 189 to be a lot, and that’s apparently how
many cards Donruss-Playoff made with Pete from 2008-09. It may be quibbling to note
that these aren’t baseball card issues, but it’s hardly impertinent in these weeks
as we await a federal court trial next month that presumably will address the issue
of MLB licensing in a big way.
But to get back to the number, the big number … 189. Really? Am I just
an old fuddy-duddy to think that’s an amazing number? I guess I need to get with the
program. I’m so out of step I can’t help but feel that number is a little silly. OK,
make it very silly.
Obviously, the cards are mostly inserts with snippets of uniforms and/or
autographs, and the cards themselves feature only a handful of different photographs.
In virtually all of them the team logo on the batting helmet is either obscured or
airbrushed, but on a handful that old Cincinnati “C” is right out there, bit as day.
The backs of the cards point out that they aren’t licensed by any of the teams.
No wonder MLB is getting grumpy about the use of its teams’ markings.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but 189? Really?
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on February 24th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on February 24th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
‘Same Card, Different Paths’ – Card #44
1969 Topps - Card #99 – AKA – ‘The Graig Nettles Rookie Card’
Danny Morris – A 2-year veteran that appeared in just 6 games, Morris had a very brief stint as a major league baseball player. Used in both starting and relief roles, Morris compiled an 0-2 record with a 2.81 career ERA. In [...]
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