This week’s top 5 Hottest Sports Cards Boxes :
1.) 2009 Leaf Certified Football

Certified is loaded with 4 game used memorabilia or autograph cards per box. With the 2009 season in full swing, many rookies are having solid seasons, and many are emerging on a week to week basis. Certified is a great box of football [...]

Topps Triple Threads Baseball is scheduled to release the first week of October. Topps has added a special “Camelot Card” to the product, paying tribute to the Kennedy Brothers – John, Robert, and Ted. The card is limited to just 5 and will be inserted into random packs of Topps Triple Threads Baseball Cards.

The always [...]

A couple interesting/entertaining links around the sports card world.
*If you haven’t seen it yet you may want to check out Andrew’s interesting box break and packs to the people videos. You can see the “Manhunt Break” of 2008/09 Upper Deck OPC Hockey Here, and You can check out the packs to the people video here.
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A few notable links from the past week:
* Topps Sues Upper Deck over design similarities as resported on MSNBC.
* More Coverage of the story at WaxHeaven and the Beckett Media Blog.
* Upper Deck utilizing Facebook Account to give direct feedback and new product images.
* Panini to have access to the NFL Draft Memorabilia as reported [...]

Donruss has announced that it’s fourth and final baseball release of the year will be 2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball Cards. The “Contenders Baseball” cards were originally debuted in the company’s last release, 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts 4 Baseball.

Contenders Baseball will also feature the first edition of Contenders Basketball rookie cards, including OJ Mayo, Derrick Rose [...]

With the upcoming release of 2009 Topps Barack Obama Trading Cards, Topps has announced 4 additions to the product:
1) White House Puppy redemption card — 1 per case. There is tremendous interest in this but the Obama’s will not make their selection for a few months from now. When they do, we’ll mail the actual [...]

Starting this Monday, November 17th we will be launching our Holiday Promotion which runs until 12/31. Look for full details and our Holiday Specials next week!

Donruss is launching Americana Sports Legends in December. The cards build off the success of the Sports Legends Inserts from the Americana series.
Check out some of the preview cards below:

Topps has announced a deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship that gives the trading card manufacturer the exclusive rights to produce UFC brand trading cards featuring current, future, and former UFC athletes. The deal lasts through May 2011 for UFC trading cards and stickers.
Topps GM of Sports & Entertainment Warren Friss had this to say, [...]

Upper Deck has released parody cards of V.P. candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. The cards will be sprinkled into 2008 Upper Deck SP Authentic Baseball, which releases next week.
Upper Deck’s director of Sports Marketing had this to say, “Our goal is always to be timely and topical,. And with so much at stake in [...]