Panini America, ESPN’s Trent Dilfer Partner for Panini Super Bowl Kid Reporter Contest
Panini America, the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company and an official licensee of the NFL and NFL Players Inc., announced today that ESPN NFL analyst and Super Bowl XXXV champion Trent Dilfer will serve as special ambassador and coach for the company’s Super Bowl XLIX Kid Reporter contest. Now in its second year, the Panini Super Bowl Kid…
Panini America to Deliver First Jay Williams Autographs Since 2003-04 NBA Season
In the sports card industry, nine years might as well be an eternity. So you'll understand when basketball fans and collectors respond to the Jay Williams autographs in Panini America's 2012-13 Past & Present Basketball as if they'd never seen any before. For the record, collectors haven't seen Williams cards of any kind since the 2003-04 season. Williams, you may recall,…
Panini America’s Bringing the 2013 Industry Summit to You: A Black Box Contest
LAS VEGAS -- Tuesday at the 2013 Industry Summit provided arguably the most exciting stretch of the entire show, and Panini America was at the center of it all -- all day long. The day started with a stirring corporate address from CEO Mark Warsop, Vice President of Marketing Jason Howarth and Vice President of Sales D.J. Kazmierczak inside a…
Panini America Inks Trading Card Deal with Projected No. 1 Overall Pick Geno Smith
NEW ORLEANS -- Panini America, the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced on Friday that it has reached an autograph and trading card agreement with former West Virginia superstar quarterback Geno Smith for the 2013 NFL season. The deal is Smith’s first officially licensed NFL and NFL PLAYERS trading card deal and will include Smith's first licensed autographed trading…
Panini America Presents . . . the Rick Reilly Interview You Can’t Afford to Miss
In the interest of full disclosure, know this: I am an unabashed, unapologetic, geek-level Rick Reilly fan. His is one of the four faces proudly carved into my Man Crush Mount Rushmore, right alongside John Elway's, Tim Tebow's and Eminem's. When it comes to the pantheon of great American sportswriters, they get no greater than Reilly, a gifted scribe who…