SCF’s Live Chat with ITG’s Dr. Price

by Richard McAdam (aka RGM81) and Sean McCafferty (aka 30ranfordfan) On January 6, 2012, In The Game President Dr. Brian Price participated in a chat session with members of SCF. Though the initial impetus for Dr. Price reaching out to SCF to have a di…

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By Karine Hains aka Pheebs888 If the Montreal Canadians made the headlines for the right reasons during their 2009-2010 playoffs run, they are now making them for all the wrong reasons. An abysmal start to the season, a truckload of injuries, a big mon…

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By Andrew Harner aka Intelliracer While New Year’s Day is typically one of the best sports days of the year, it had to wait until Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. But it was worth the wait until the calendar’s read “New Year’s Day (observe…

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By RGM81 aka Richard McAdam The announcement of Montreal Canadiens’ head coach Jacques Martin being “relieved of his duties” reached me while I was at the monthly Halifax card show. Oddly enough, CTV Halifax news anchor Steve Murphy (himself a co…

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by RGM81 aka Richard McAdam Late in the evening on December 5th, the National Hockey League’s Board of Governors announced its plan for what it calls “radical realignment.” The East/West Conference alignment we have known for the past several yea…

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By Jeff Hacket aka txtaz1102 What does card collecting mean to you? To me, growing up it was another way to connect with my parents, they would buy the packs of cards and we would open them and spend time together going over the cards we had gotten and…

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By Michael Reuben aka mreuben Ever since I returned to the hobby in full force a few years ago, I’ve been reading blog after blog all proposing different ideas which would bring flocks of people to the hobby. More high-end products. More low-end prod…

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By TrueIrishFan616 aka Noah Foreman Thanks to ESPN, the sports nation was given a glimpse into the new uniform that Notre Dame showcased for the first time in school history. The newly donned “Shamrock Series” uniform brought many Notre Dame faithf…

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By Paul Deeds aka Bobreaker50 There’s nothing like getting an autograph from one of your sports heroes.  I can remember who I was with, where I was at, and how long it took me to get every in person autograph I own. Over the years, I have been o…

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By Grant Smeyne aka bcct12_sports The National Hockey League regular season is now under way and has provided some insight on how the standings will turn out by the end of the eighty-two game season. The season is just twenty games in and anything can …

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By David Oby III aka CavFanatic21 Have you ever wanted to try to get your own in person autographs? If so, here is a quick guide that will hopefully encourage you to do so and not just confuse you. Although it may sound like a simple process, and can b…

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By Scott Kozlowski aka scottkoz20 When the NHL approved the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment for the purposes of moving the franchise to Winnipeg for the 2011-12 season, the evil R-word (realignment) was going to be …

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By Guy Mitchell aka sweetg1   Total QBR was created by ESPN to evaluate a Quarterback’s total contribution to the game. This would concern not only his passing numbers (as does the traditional Quarterback Rating), but it would also include his sacks…

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By Sarah Earhart aka swampstyle While I have been a Texas Rangers fan most of my life, I have really enjoyed watching them more the past few years than in the past. One might argue that is because they have been pretty freaking hot in the past few year…

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By Kelly Burrington aka yazfan71 Well, I started this as a reply to an article that I had read on here and I didn’t want to seem like I was hijacking the very well written article, so I decided to just make this its own separate thread.   Now, I…

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By Paul Deeds aka bobreaker50 As the 2011 season began the Oakland Raiders were confident that they were going to reward Al Davis with the team’s first playoff berth since 2002. Jason Campbell had a good command of the offense and Richard Seymour had…

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By Jaydoublez aka Joe Alaimo There’s something I haven’t been able to understand for a while now. Something that has really bothered me . We all sit down to watch out favorite sports whether it is football, baseball, basketball ,hockey and even rac…

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By Andrew Harner aka aharner55 Like many others, I am a big believer that teams such as Boise State deserve just as much of a chance of earning the title of college football’s national champion as schools from the power conference do, but under t…

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By Sarah Earhart aka swampstyle Part of growing up in Louisiana is the expectation of bleeding purple and gold. Anyone who has ever come into Louisiana realizes that the state is as much a part of the “Tiger Belt” as it is the “Bible Belt”. Whi…

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By Scott Rohlffs aka souperman79 As I write this article, my World Champion Green Bay Packers stand alone with an 8-0 start. I understand that I have some bias in writing this article because I feel the Pack will repeat this year and win yet another Su…

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By Richard Mock aka Paintball The fun in collecting rookie cards is of course to predict who the future hall of famers will be and to collect the rookie cards of these future stars before they become out of reach in price. In today’s market,  this i…

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by RGM81 aka Richard McAdam Nashville Has Their Man The recent signing of Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne to a 7-year, $49M extension with the club has ignited considerable discussion regarding the role and value to a team’s success. After goi…

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by RGM81 aka Richard McAdam There was so much optimism going into this year. Carey Price was coming off a career year. P.K. Subban was going to improve on his rookie campaign in which he tied a Habs’ team record for goals by a freshman blueliner. Max…

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By Matthew Ferreira aka Ferrari5515   This isn’t the first time I’ve written an article for one of these contests. If you recall, a while ago I wrote an article about teen card collecting, and even though my article was passed the submission date,…

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When I joined Sports Card Forum a year back, my first offer was a Seneca Wallace 2003 Sweet Spot Gold Jersey /25. The guy was nice but his cost was too high, and so I passed.A year later and yet another guy on the site offers me another one of these c…

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By Sean McCafferty aka 30ranfordfan If the play on Dickie Dunn’s immortal words in the title was lost on you, you probably won’t get. If you’ve never described a penalty as “two minutes, by yourself, you feel shame, and then you get free” you might roll your eyes as your read on. If the words

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By Stephen Duell aka Spuds1961 First off, let me preface this by saying I’m not too big of a basketball fan to begin with, but these guys are just plain stupid. I find it hard to sympathize with owners or players who have never worked an honest day of hard work in their lives. The

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By Sean McCafferty aka 30ranfordfan NHL Predictions: Western Conference We’re a few weeks into the NHL season, and everyone has played at least seven games now. This does provide a little bit of insight as to how we should expect teams to perform, but with a such a small sample it can also be very

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NHL Predictions: Eastern Conference We’re a few weeks into the NHL season, and everyone has played at least seven games now. This does provide a little bit of insight as to how we should expect teams to perform, but with a such a small sample it can also be very misleading. Fact is, nothing that

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By Drew Pelto, AKA *censored* Please excuse any over-pontificating that I happen to do of this set, but let’s be serious here.  1987 was possibly the best year for cards in my lifetime.  The field was expanded to three companies and all three had something to set their set apart from the rest.  Topps and

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by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored* Some called him Lefty. Some called him Red. Some called him crazy. George Brunet was a well-traveled pitcher, and one you’ve probably never heard much about; mostly because he was a pretty good pitcher who got stuck on some really bad teams.  Over a major league career that went through

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by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored* #9 – 1955 Topps The first set of the Golden Age of Baseball Cards that I get to review! Well, actually that depends on your definition of Golden Age.  To me, the days of the Bowman-Topps rivalry on up to about the mid 1960′s count as the Golden Age. It’s

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by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored* Once again, let’s fast forward through the countdown.  I’ll eventually make these all public in some way either in blog or book form.  Mostly since I really like a bunch of these sets. #24. 1973 Topps #23. 1992 Topps #22. 1963 Topps #21. 1999 Topps #20. 1982 Topps #19. 1960

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by Drew Pelto, AKA *censored* Wow.  Been a while, hasn’t it?  I’ve been a tad busy with work and travel and the hockey season starting (actually the three are synonymous for me) and now that the World Series is about to start, it’s time we go warp speed through the countdown and start with the

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By Joe Mosley aka LGB Cards First off, I am not going to act like I predicted this season cause if anyone did they were the only one. The epic breakdowns by the Braves and Red Sox turned out to be two more notches in the historic disaster column of baseball history. Now we are

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