Gallery: Panini America Sneaks Peek Inside the New 2015 Duke University Card Set
Panini America has reunited some of the greatest athletes in Duke Blue Devils history for the company’s 2015 Duke University trading card set that is available now. The unique set features 50 base cards honoring the school’s most decorated athletes, alumni, athletic structures and traditions. The base set features Silver, Gold (numbered to 25) and Black (numbered to 10) parallels, as does…
Panini America, Sports Legends Pack Punch During 2015 National VIP Party (Gallery)
CHICAGO -- On a postcard-perfect Saturday night at Chicago's iconic Solider Field, in a horizontally sprawling suite tucked majestically behind the iconic structure's trademark colonnades, Panini America's fourth annual National VIP Party unfolded amid considerable pomp and circumstance as more than 250 special guests basked in the brilliance of a fantasy come to life. Bolstered by some of the sports…
Panini America Lands Chicago Cubs Legend Ryne Sandberg for 2015 National VIP Party
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The guest list is complete. And as a result, Panini America's highly anticipated 2015 National VIP Party is shaping up to be perhaps the most epic edition in the event's four-year history. Earlier today, just hours after dropping the morning bombshell that boxing icon Mike Tyson would be attending tonight's gala, company officials revealed the identity of…
Jabari Parker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, More Top 2015 National VIP Party List So Far
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- With each passing day, Panini America's celebrated Saturday 2015 National VIP Party continues to generate more buzz. On Thursday, company official began announcing a start-studded guest list that includes Ricky Williams, Pete Rose, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bobby Portis and John Smoltz. Late Friday evening, company officials dropped another bombshell by revealing that Chicago native Jabari Parker would be…
Panini America Delivers a Gallery Update on International-Only 2014-15 Gala Basketball
A lot has happened in the three weeks since Panini America first announced plans for the international-only 2014-15 Gala Basketball release. The initial news created a still-reverberating buzz throughout the basketball collecting community -- as much for Gala's unique designs and rich product content as for its outside-the-U.S. distribution plan. Today, that buzz promises to gain even more intensity as…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2014-15 Threads Basketball
Our all-out assault on previewing Panini America's Target-exclusive 2014-15 Threads Basketball continues today with our first look at finished boxes of the product's Premium and Blaster Box configurations. In the Teaser Gallery that follows, we rip one box of the Premium SKU (60 cards including two autographs and two memorabilia cards) and one box of the Blaster Box SKU (20…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Spectra Basketball (Gallery)
Ask most hardcore hoops collectors about last season's most surprising products and there's a great chance that many of them -- if not all of them -- will mention Panini America's 2013-14 Spectra Basketball. Last season's maiden voyage under the Spectra banner succeeded thanks in large part to loaded content, limited production and stunning Optichrome technology. All of that, course,…
Panini America Goes Card by Card Through a Case of 2014-15 Gold Standard Basketball
Panini America officials are conducting the company's annual distributor meeting this week, which just so happens to coincide perfectly with 2014-15 Gold Standard Basketball packing out. So instead of the normal Quality Control process, Panini America's Basketball Product Development Team is getting a little QC cooperation from the top sports card distributors in North America while they're in town. Later…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2014-15 Select Basketball (Preview Gallery)
Panini America's groovy-great Tie Dye Prizms that seemed so far-out in 2014 Prizm Football earlier this season are crossing over to the NBA -- and it's safe to say that 2014-15 Select Basketball will likely be a whole lot more funky as a result. But rest assured that the product will have a whole lot more than cosmically cool new…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Early Boxes of 2014-15 Paramount Basketball
Six days into the new year and we're already hurtling full speed into action here at Panini America, what with this week's release of 2014-15 Paramount Basketball (Wednesday) and the hobby edition of 2014 Contenders Football (Thursday). We brought you extended first looks at both products yesterday with respective Quality Control Galleries. Today, we're diving in to the first finished…