Art of the Matter: Panini America Releasing New Sketch Cards at 2012 Toronto Fall Expo

You know, you can learn a lot about a professional athlete by giving him nothing more than a few colored Sharpies, a blank trading-card canvas, about five minutes and one simple two-word request: Draw something. What you're likely to discover -- as we have at Panini America during the last few years -- is that the resulting artwork is sometimes primitive,…

Details are Sketchy: Panini America Unveils One More Surprise for the 2011 National

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The hits keep coming for Panini America wrapper redeemers at the 2011 National Sports Collectors Convention. And in this case, the hits are hand-drawn works of art from some of the top rookies in the NFL. And while we could talk all day about the small number of original 2011 NFL Rookie Sketch Cards randomly inserted inside the company's wrapper-redemption program, we…