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The card brands change on a seemingly weekly basis at the local Walmart. On Monday, I picked up two 15 count packs of Panini Chronicles football at $8 each, plus tax. Five days later, I was back, and the Chronicles were replaced with Panini Elite NFL and a ton of leftover 2021-22 NBA. 30 count packs for $12.

Hello, inflation.

Just because Panini is the only game in town when it comes to football, basketball, WWE, & UFC, the latter two licenses recently acquired

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By now, you've heard about Direct Action Everywhere's latest pathetic stunt for attention.

Before we go any further, DAE is staging these in game protests, first during the NBA playoffs six months ago, and now during NFL games, to call attention to two of their number being on trial for abducting two piglets from a Smithfield Farms-affiliated farm five years ago, claiming the farm abused the piglets and other animals. Smithfield is owned by Glen Taylor, whom I believe closed the deal

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This was posted first on one of my personal blogs off-site earlier this morning. Edited because the photo that was included didn't transmit in transition:
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Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins shredded the officials after Memphis lost to Minnesota on Saturday, calling the NBA zebras "inconsistent" and "arrogant".

Jenkins has never met baseball umpire Angel Hernandez.

With the

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Topps 2022 series 1 just went live less than a week ago. I waited until today to take a run up to Walmart to see about scoring some packs or a blaster box.

Turns out that was a mistake. Nothing was left. Only a few 2021 factory sets, priced at $60 each, were available, plus some WNBA and Nascar merch that went live earlier in the winter.

A clerk told me the shipments arrive in the morning, and, apparently, the card hoarding pseudo-investors of 2020 are back, lying in

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I wrote this on one of my personal blogs earlier:
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Mention the name "Touchdown" Eddie Brown to fans of the Albany Firebirds in the 90's, and you hear a lot of praise. Brown and the 'Birds left town after winning the 1999 ArenaBowl, but to many, Brown remained an area legend.

Sadly, the same cannot be said for his son, Antonio, who quit on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday while the Super Bowl champions were trailing the Jests

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