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…

[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…

[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.

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…

The lovely and talented Amanda Lee Modano — stage name “Willa Ford” — made her ballyhooed sports trading card debut earlier this month in 2010-11 Donruss Hockey‘s Fans of the Game insert. Turns out the do-it-all entertainer perhaps best known for being easy on the eyes, “Dancing With The Stars” and marrying NHL legend Mike Modano also happens to be a rather spirited signer. Ford penned no…

Look, we’re just going to come right out and say it: We want more people to follow the Panini America Twitter account. And we’re not afraid to use cardboard bribes, either.   So in the spirit of giving and receiving this holiday season, here’s our proposal: From now until, well, the forseeable future, we’re going to award one of the 15 sweet…

Last week we launched our second ‘Whose Autograph Arrived Today?’ contest and asked loyal The Knight’s Lance visitors to guess the identity of 14 random, recently received autographs. Once again, the response was overwhelming and we sincerely appreciate everyone’s participation. In all, just six out of the more than 30 respondents correctly identified all 14 signatures correctly. We dropped those six names…

The long-awaited release of 2010-11 Limited Hockey finally arrived today to rave reviews. Of course, the product also arrived with a few redemptions (if you ask us, even one redemption is one too many). But passionate hockey collectos can take solace in knowing that a good many of those outstanding signatures requiring redemptions — including must-haves like Mario Lemieux and…

From the day I first saw the preliminary designs for 2010-11 Donruss Basketball, I was convinced it would be one of the most spectacular-looking hoops sets of the decade. That feeling was only intensified when I saw some of  the inserts being printed last week. Now that the product has been printed and the Panini America basketball product development team has completed the…

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPg9mwt4lY&fs=1&hl=en_US] Clint Hall and Scott Prusha have their way with two early boxes of 2010-11 Limited Hockey, in which they pull one of the sweetest oversized Sidney Crosby swatches you’ll ever see. Watch to find out more, including who Hall spent time with last night.