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Week 0 kicks off August 29 with Belichick in Dublin and USC on NBC. Bowman University Chrome Football does not release until October 31. That two-month gap is the most useful thing…
Read More →Two core boosters land five weeks apart, and one of them has been legal in Japan since July. Here is how to use the OCG head start, what 18 anime-import cards does to a set, and ho…
Read More →Whatnot reports 6.4 million sports cards bought per month in the U.S. and more than $8 billion in live sales GMV, with sports cards as its number one American category. That volume…
Read More →Pokemon's 30th anniversary set makes every card in the expansion a foil, with 30 unique Pikachu illustrations as the chase. Here is the full pack breakdown, both Elite Trainer Box …
Read More →The card hobby produces an enormous amount of content, and most of it is someone opening boxes at you. Here are the podcasts, channels, and newsletters still publishing in 2026 tha…
Read More →The 2026 first overall pick is already on collector hot lists, but hockey rookie cards work differently from every other sport. Upper Deck Young Guns, games-played eligibility, and…
Read More →Prerelease events begin August 7 ahead of the August 14 worldwide launch. The Hobbit is the first Tolkien set legal in Standard, it ships with no Commander precons, and two Scene B…
Read More →The industry graded a record 3.5 million cards in June, with PSA alone at 2.5 million while its Value tier stayed closed. Here is where every major grader stands in August 2026, cu…
Read More →Bandai debuted the Naruto Card Game at Gen Con 2026 and confirmed a global Summer 2027 launch. Here is how the Leader and Chakra system actually works, the full event roadmap throu…
Read More →Collectors Holdings owns PSA, SGC, and now Beckett, putting roughly 80 percent of the grading market under one parent. A congressman has asked the FTC to investigate. Here is what …
Read More →TAG Grading graded roughly 52,000 cards in May, up about 40 percent year over year, but sold-out service tiers and a 10 to 25 percent resale gap versus PSA complicate the growth st…
Read More →The trade deadline lands Monday, August 3 at 6 p.m. ET, and wide-open playoff races have created a seller's market. Here is how deadline moves ripple through card prices, and how t…
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