Nick of Rhyme: For New Jersey’s Nick Javas, the Pepsi Max NFL Rookie Audible is a Rap
One listen. That's all it takes to know for certain that New Jersey rapper Nick Javas has found his calling. Javas is the rap game's preeminent pigskin poet; a football freestyler spitting prose on pros that's guaranteed to keep you hitting replay again and again and again -- not just because you simply can't stop listening, but also because you want to confirm that he indeed just said what…
What If NBA Superstar Kevin Durant Played Football . . . for the Washington Redskins?
In case you missed it, NBA superstar Kevin Durant dressed up as a football player for Halloween on Monday night. Then the noted Washington Redskins fan went out and displayed to a frenzied throng of onlookers in Stillwater, Okla., that he could more than play the part. According to The Daily Oklahoman, Durant's surprise appearance for the Oklahoma State Sigma Nu fraternity…
The Panini America Drool Gallery: 2011-12 Score Hockey Hot Rookies Updated RCs
The 2011-12 NHL trading card season begins in earnest next week with the highly anticipated release of 2011-12 Score Hockey, complete with the landmark Hot Rookies Rookie Card subset sure to set Panini America's premiere release ablaze. Last week we shared just some of the details surrounding the slew of this season's first-time skaters whose first NHL Rookie Cards will be…
LeBron James to the NFL: What King James’ Football Rookie Cards Might Look Like . . .
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The NFL Rookies are Coming! Stunning New Arrivals Hit Panini America on Friday
As if Week 2 of the 2011 NFL season wasn't enough to get you excited about this weekend, we here at Panini America are about to give you 16 more reasons: Some devastatingly good-looking autographed Rookie Cards slated to ignite upcoming football products such as 2011 Absolute Memorabilia, 2011 Crown Royale and 2011 Certified. The following gallery -- featuring new on-card arrivals…
Panini Peek: 2011 Gridiron Gear Football
When Panini America NFL Product Development team members set out to construct and improve Gridiron Gear Football for a new season, they considered a host of possibilities. Foremost among them, however, was making the still-revolutionary-after-all-these-years Rookie Gridiron Gems -- arguably collecting's most unique Rookie Cards -- more attainable than ever. As a result, the popular RCs, numbered this season to 349 or less, will fall eight per case…
Score Keepers: A Comprehensive Gallery of Every RC Variation in 2011 Score Football
Panini America NFL Brand Manager Carlos Torrez hand-delivered two heaping handfuls of 2011 Score Football cards to me this morning. What at first glance appeared to be dupes of several of the top rookies from the 2011 Draft Class turned out to be something much, much more. In all, there were 86 different cards -- 36 base Rookie Cards from those players who attended…
Panini America Preview Gallery: Your First Look at 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football
During the first 10 years of its existence as a stand-alone product, Absolute Memorabilia built considerable brand equity by consistently delivering some of the most popular Rookie Cards in football every year. But when the venerable brand enters its second decade with the September release of 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football, Panini America product developers are looking to accentuate an already-sterling reputation by delivering, for the first…
Panini America Announces Last Three SPs from 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey
After more than two weeks of gradually revealing the identity of the short-printed Rookie Ticket Autographs RCs that have kept collectors guessing -- and buzzing -- since 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey released on May 18, we've reached the final reveal. Since we felt that releasing all of those Rookie Card SPs at once would kind of remove all the mystery, we leaked them gradually over…
2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey: Two More Rookie Card Short Prints Revealed!
Panini America officials on Tuesday morning continued pulling the curtain back on the array of short-printed Rookie Ticket Autographed Rookie Cards that have kept collectors guessing since 2010-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey released on May 18. Since releasing all of those Rookie Card SPs at once would kind of remove all the mystery, we’ve decided to leak them gradually over the next few weeks. We started just…