The Panini America Interview: Oklahoma City Thunder Superstar Kevin Durant

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXmDtdKdAg8&w=480&h=390] Panini America announced earlier today that it had reached an exclusive multi-year trading card, autograph and memorabilia agreement with Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant. In this exclusive interview with Durant conducted on location inside Durant's home during his historic first signing session with Panini America, the two-time All-Star discusses his new association with the company, collecting trading cards as a kid…

Quality Controlling . . . 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Patches Basketball (video)

The Panini America basketball team -- Mike Payne, David Porter and Aik Tongtharadol -- spent most of Monday morning taking the good, hard, first looks at 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Patches Basketball, a re-imagined take on a company classic that adds a contemporary twist to the brand's trademark Rookie Ticket autographs. That thread-bearing twist comes in the form of striking manufactured…

Panini America’s Week in Review

Yeah, I guess you could say we had a pretty busy seven days at The Knight's Lance. We had wall-to-wall Super Bowl coverage, an award-worthy Green Bay Packers collector, jaw-dropping galleries of upcoming Panini America products, celebrity box busts, a contest to reward one lucky collector with a 2010 Playoff Contenders Tim Tebow Rookie Ticket and an update on the…

Quality Controlling 2010 Playoff Contenders Football (Gallery & Controverisal Video)

With the official release date of the highly anticipated 2010 Playoff Contenders Football now just a week away, members of the Panini America football team have spent the last two days conducting the product's two-tiered quality control process, first on location at the printing and packing facility, and yesterday at corporate headquarters in Arlington, Texas. I was able to compile a comprehensive…

Houndstooth Hat Trick: Turning a Classic Bear Bryant Collectible Into 100 of Them

One of the most unique trading cards randomly inserted into packs of 2011 Panini Century Collection early last month was the striking Souvenir Stamps gem that included pieces of memorabilia worn by college coaching legends Knute Rockne and Paul "Bear" Bryant as well as U.S. postage stamps honoring both men. The swatch of Rockne memorabilia embedded into each of the 100 cards…

Panini America On Location: That’s a Wrap from the Super Bowl XLV NFL Experience

  DALLAS -- While the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers were battling it out on the field during Super Bowl XLV, workers were busy tearing down an impressive display of football magic. More than 800,000 square feet of the Dallas Convention Center played home to the NFL for two weeks and fans saw some impressive interactive components. If you made it out (and…

Panini America On-Location Video: Scenes from the 2011 Pop Warner Adrenalyn Bowl

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG_VKooLJGs&w=480&h=390] ARLINGTON, TEXAS -- Last Saturday morning, just one day before Super Bowl XLV, Panini America and Pop Warner joined forces to present the 2011 Pop Warner Adrenalyn Bowl at Sam Houston High School, located within an Aaron Rodgers deep ball of the colossus known as Cowboys Stadium. NFL superstars Brandon Lloyd of the Denver Broncos and Kevin Kolb of…

On the Routing Table: February 3, 2011

Leave it to the revealing hearth of the Panini America Routing Table to provide warmth and comfort during this strangely frozen week in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Days marked by wintry mixes, sub-20-degree temperatures and below-zero wind chills left many of us working from home this week. But when I was finally able to make it into the office, I…
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