Simply, the best baseball memorabilia collection ever

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/33505957

 

Boardgamenews.com – NHL Ice Breaker: A Top Sports Game

Sports Games of All Sorts (Part Two)
By Dale Yu

So, what makes a sports game good?  In the end, the same things that make any game good or bad.  Is the game fun?  Does it have nice components?  Do I want to play it again after a game?  Some special considerations that I take into account for a sports game include:  Does the game capture the flavor of the real sport?  Would the game succeed if it had another (non-sports-based) theme?  But in the end, I judge a sports game on essentially the same criteria I would for any regular game…

NHL Ice Breaker: The Card Hockey Board Game

Type of Game: card game with hockey theme

Why I like It: This is a nice game that I first saw at Origins in 2006.  It is a cousin to Card Football (a game which didn’t quite make the cut for Football games).  It uses the same rules and special 54-card deck.  In this game, each player uses a 54 card deck (standard 52 cards and 2 jokers) – and each card in the deck has a special hockey action on it.  During play, players take turns playing cards, and the highest card (or poker combination) played wins the hand and gets to use the special action printed on their card.  While this sounds like the classic card game War, there’s a bit more to it.  Players can continue to play cards (up to 5) after the initial showdown. So, if I play a King and you play a 7, you might choose to play another 7 to make a pair.  Now, I have to either play more cards or stop.  There is a board representing a hockey rink, and as you win hands in the card game, you are able to control the puck and move the puck towards your opponent’s goal.  There are also special spaces on the board which trigger special “icebreaker” rules.  But, the overall goal is to move the puck forward enough that you get into the “shooting zone” – when the puck is in this area, you now have a chance to shoot at the goal. The game plays quickly (maybe 30 to 45 minutes), and it is an enjoyable take on War…

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Poll: Top 10 Texas Longhorn football teams of all-time

Help CSE Games put the final touches on our college football board game. Give us your opinion – what are your choices as the 10 best teams in Texas Longhorns football history?

Disney to Pay $4 Billion for Comic Giant Marvel

By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY

LOS ANGELES — In a deal that redraws Hollywood’s architecture, the Walt Disney Company said Monday that it would acquire Spider-Man and his Marvel Entertainment cohorts for $4 billion.

Disney will pay a combination of about 60 percent cash and 40 percent stock to acquire Marvel, the comic book giant whose stable of 5,000 characters includes some of the world’s best-known superheroes: Iron Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Captain America and Thor…

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/media/01disney.html?em

Perfect Michael Jordan Rookie Card sells for $82,000

By Chris Olds

A BGS 10 Pristine copy of Michael Jordan’s 1986-87 Fleer Rookie Card sold on eBay for $82,000 on Thursday evening just weeks before His Airness is enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The 10-day auction closed at 5:58 p.m. Pacific after 87 bids…

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Dream Come True: Tavares Gets Ready For His Rookie Card

TSN.CA STAFF

Growing up in Sweden, Victor Hedman was a big fan of countryman Peter Forsberg. How big, you might ask? Big enough that the young Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman says he owns 201 different hockey cards featuring Forsberg’s image.

Soon enough, Hedman can start collecting cards with his own face on them, if he wants.

Ask any up-and-coming NHL’er about his biggest moments in hockey, and chances are that being drafted and putting on his team jersey for the first time would be near the top of the list. But let’s not kid ourselves – there isn’t a hockey-playing youngster out there who hasn’t at least given a passing fantasy thought to having his own hockey card. And for a select few, it’s about to happen.

On Wednesday, the first step to that fantasy becoming reality took place in Mississauga, Ontario, where 14 of the NHL’s top picks and prospects participated in a photo shoot for Upper Deck trading cards. The company plans on using the images in their upcoming sets for the 2009-10 season…

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NHLIB: The Future of Hockey Cards?

One writer thinks so…

By Simon Breedon
eHow Contributing Writer

Hockey cards have had a rich history over the past 100 years, and since the lockout in 2004, a new-found value has been placed on collector items such as cigarette pack cards, the legendary cards like the Wayne Gretzky rookie and even the new era of Hockey game cards with the Ice Breaker brand. Collectors might find there is a goldmine in that old shoe box in the attic.

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Significance
Collecting hockey cards has played a significant part in helping fans familiarize themselves with the sport. The backs of the cards contain a lot of information, from scoring statistics to which players are the best golfers. In the early years, hockey cards were not seen as collectors items, so one could have a Bobby Orr or Wayne Gretzky, card mixed in with the lesser known players…

The Future of Hockey Cards
The future of hockey cards can be seen in the new NHL Ice Breaker card board game. These games are centered on the basic premise of a 52-game deck but with a hockey card collector theme.

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The Collegiate Licensing Company Names Top Selling Universities

ATLANTA, Ga., (August 14, 2009) – The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), a division of IMG Worldwide, is pleased to announce its annual list of top-selling institutions and manufacturers. These rankings represent royalties reported July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 on all collegiate merchandise sold.

Notes of interest:

• This marks the fourth consecutive year The University of Texas at Austin has ranked No. 1 in CLC’s fiscal year-end rankings.
• University of Georgia was the biggest mover amongst top-10 institutions. The University gained four positions and finished the year at No. 3.
• Nike USA Inc. has occupied the top spot amongst collegiate apparel licensees since 1999.
• EA Sports has maintained its No. 1 status in non-apparel licensees since Q3 of 2003.
• Top local licensee J & W Interests Inc., a State College, Pennsylvania-based collegiate apparel and non-apparel manufacturer and retailer, produces and sells officially licensed product for The Pennsylvania State University.
• Top royalty producing non-apparel categories for CLC’s fiscal year-end include video games, domestic, housewares, and home furnishings, respectively.
• Top apparel categories for 2008-09 include T-shirts, fleece, women’s, and headwear.

Top-75 Universities
(1.) The University of Texas at Austin
(2.) University of Florida
(3.) University of Georgia
(4.) Louisiana State University
(5.) The University of Alabama
(6.) University of North Carolina
(7.) The University of Michigan
(8.) The Pennsylvania State University
(9.) University of Notre Dame
(10.) The University of Oklahoma
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http://www.clc.com/clcweb/publishing.nsf/Content/Rankings+Annual+2009

 

Collegiate Licensing Company, Upper Deck Announce Multi-Year Exclusive

As reported by Beckett Media, the Collegiate Licensing Company officially announced Thursday morning that it has reached an exclusive five-year agreement with Upper Deck.

The agreement, which goes into effect April 1, 2010, gives Upper Deck exclusive rights in the trading card category to the team and word marks for more than 200 collegiate institutions…

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Topps Lands MLB Exclusive for 2010

The New York Times is reporting tonight — and sports business reporter Darren Rovell is tweeting — that Topps has landed an exclusive MLB trading card agreement for 2010.

The announcement comes as quite a surprise, and on the heels of Upper Deck’s annoucement early last month that it had secured an MLBPA extension. At that point, officials from MLBPA had no additional licensing details to report.

Officials from both Topps and Upper Deck could not be reached for comment Wednesday night…

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