Panini Unwrapped World Premiere Video: 2010-11 Timeless Treasures Basketball
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8X0Ef4tvBE&fs=1&hl=en_US] Tracy Hackler spends less than three breathless minutes with the high-end trophy-in-a-tin product known as 2010-11 Timeless Treasures Basketball. How many hits will he uncover? Will he ever recover? Watch and find out.
The Drool Gallery: 2010 Donruss Football Rated Rookie Boxed Set
If you can keep this between us, I'll let you in on a little secret: I got an advance look yesterday at one of the coolest little football products to come along in a long, long time. It's the self-contained, brilliantly-boxed coup known as the 2010 Donruss Football Rated Rookie Boxed Set -- and it's even sweeter than it appeared when we first announced…
Panini Unwrapped World Premiere Video: 2010-11 Donruss Basketball
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L16iNMAUGH4&fs=1&hl=en_US] Tracy Hackler and Scott Prusha help themselves to the serendipitous thrill ride that is a 24-pack box of 2010-11 Donruss Basketball cards. Enjoy this early look at one of the most anticipated hoops products to come along in quite some time.
Panini NFL Rookie of the Week
Tim Tebow, DEN – 308 passing yards and a touchdown, 27 rushing yards and a touchdown (more…)
Panini America’s Hockey Holiday
For children of all ages all across the world, last week was invariably a good one, what with Santa making his Christmas rounds and all. Still, it it's likely that no one in the hobby enjoyed a better week than the Panini America hockey team. To help illustrate just how fruitful the week was, we've made the following list. Be sure to check…
On The Routing Table: National Treasures Football, Pinnacle Hockey, More . . .
As per its custom, Panini America's fabled Routing Table was its resplendent, revelatory self in the last few days before Christmas break. On it late last Thursday evening were scene-setting sneak peeks of such ballyhooed coming release as 2010 National Treasures Football, 2010-11 Contenders Patches Basketball and 2010-11 Pinnacle Hockey. The table provides an eye-candy buffet virtually every time I…
Panini America Personal Collection Spotlight: Hunter Reed’s Gridiron Gems
I got an email from Chicago collector Hunter Reed a week before Christmas week inquiring about the breakdown of the home and away jersey pieces featured in the 2010 Gridiron Gear Gridiron Gems set. A brief email exchange later, I discovered I was dealing with nothing less than one of the preeminent Gridiron Gems super collectors on the planet. As…
Happy Holidays from Panini America!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvfmZbY-ln0&fs=1&hl=en_US] Join Tracy Hackler and Scott Prusha for a very special holiday greeting from Panini America. Oh, and those 12 boxes of sweet sports cards you see are not just there for decoration. They're gifts that you can win by sharing your favorite sports card holiday memories as a comment to this post. Here's wishing everyone out there a tremendous…
Panini America Behind the Scenes: The Trading Card Conference Room
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHxR7qFoAOw&fs=1&hl=en_US] With Panini America headquarters a virtual ghost town on the eve of the holiday break, Tracy Hackler takes collectors behind the scenes of a conference room made for card lovers by card lovers. Consider the trip down collecting's memory lane our holiday gift to you.
Christmas Eve Drool Gallery: 2010-11 Timeless Treasures Basketball
2010-11 Timeless Treasures Basketball, one of the most anticipated, content-rich hoops products of the season, will begin heating up the cold collecting winter when it releases five days into 2011 packing one really big surprise (more on that later). But since we know that some of the only things Panini America collectors love more than the products themselves are the…