The box: 2018-19 Donruss Optic basketball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 17 of 150 (11 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards: Anthony Davis, Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, Dennis Schröder, Khris Middleton, JJ Redick, Brandon Ingram, Dwight Howard, Tony Parker

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What's Buzzing Today: Inside 68 Bowman Mega Boxes, NBA breaks, The National and "When did 'prospecting' change?"

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The box: 2019 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 7
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
35 of 100 (35 percent)
Duplicates: 8

Notables on base cards – Joe Namath, Derrick Henry, Amari Cooper, Nick Mullens, Mitchell Trubisky, Leonard Fournette, Terry Bradshaw, Saquon Barkley, Dan Marino, Jerry Rice, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, Cam Newton, Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes II, Michael Thomas, Marcus Allen, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Adrian Peterson

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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Update: Riley has been on fire since his arrival with seven homers and 20 RBI in his first 14 games, hitting .375 (21-for-56) for the second-place Braves.

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The newest Atlanta Braves rookie to watch is here -- and he homered in his big-league debut.

He's outfielder/third baseman Austin Riley and he went 1-for-3 with a home run in his first game last night, a solo shot in just his second at-bat during a 4-0 win over the Cardinals.

Baseball America ranked him as the No. 22 prospect in baseball entering this season and he had torn things up at Triple-A Gwinnett, hitting .299 with 10 doubles, 15 homers and 39 RBI in 37 games this season.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but big pulls, 2019 Bowman Mega Boxes, non-sports breaks and more in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls and National chatter lead the way here with some Ben Simmons heat in the mix.

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What: 2019 Donruss WNBA basketball cards
Arrives: June 26
Box basics: Two autographs per four-pack box (20 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: The WNBA comes to Panini America cardboard for the first time with a brand that gives collectors an Optic option as well as ink within its small but big -- 30 cards -- packs.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of what's to come.

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What's Buzzing Today: Inside 39 White Sparkle packs, big pulls, National chatter and plenty more here.

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The box: 2018 Donruss Optic NFL cards (Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby and FOTL)

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 40
Base set completion: 15 of 100 (15 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards: Deshaun Watson, Christian McCaffrey, Michael Thomas, Landon Collins, Dak Prescott, Tyreek Hill, Joe Flacco, Sammy Watkins, Jerick McKinnon, Emmanuel Sanders, Charles Clay, Keenan Allen, Dion Lewis, Jamison Crowder, Ben Roethlisberger

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What's Buzzing Today: The National forum is now open, new NFL breaks, pulls from UFC and MLB ... and more in today's edition.

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The box: 2019 Score football cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 11
Cards in this box: 132
Base set completion: 
103 of 440 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards: Cam Newton, Carson Wentz, Sam Darnold, Lamar Jackson, J.J. Watt, Christian McCaffrey, Nick Mullens, Alvin Kamara, George Kittle, Todd Gurley, Michael Thomas, Sony Michel, Philip Rivers

Rookie Cards (33) – Notables include Dwayne Haskins, Daniel Jones, Riley Ridley, Deionte Thompson, Damien Harris, Rashan Gary, Darrell Henderson, Terry McLaurin, A.J. Brown, Nasir Adderley, Dexter Lawrence, Alexander Mattison, Bryce Love, Noah Fant, D.K. Metcalf

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The box: 2018-19 Panini Threads NBA cards (hanger box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for previous years)

Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 20
Base set completion: 12 of 100 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – John Wall, Vince Carter, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love, Harrison Barnes, Klay Thompson, Joe Ingles, T.J. Warren, Taurean Prince, Andre Drummond, Tristan Thompson, Dennis Smith Jr.

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The box: 2017 Donruss football cards (retail blister pack)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

Packs per blister: 4 (plus Red bonus card)
Cards per pack: 8
Cards per blister: 33
Base set completion: 
24 of 300 (8 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Jim Brown, Phil Simms and ... see the gallery?

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What's Buzzing Today: New football and baseball pulls of note, card trimming, Chris Paddack and pondering if there's a PSA 10 bubble.

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What's Buzzing Today: Pondering Tom Brady Rookie Card buys, MLB breaks, the Boston Celtics, 2019 Score, plenty more and even more on "alteration vs. conservation."

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What: 2018-19 Panini Immaculate Collection soccer cards
Arrives: June 26
Box basics: Five autograph and/or memorabilia cards and one base/parallel card in every box (six boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate Collection hits the pitch for a sophomore season plenty of hits in a release that "will feature a wide assortment of both club and national teams from around the world."

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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What: 2019 Panini Elite football cards
Arrives: June 26
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Elite is back with this year's new crop of NFL rookies in their pro uniforms and plenty of firepower inside for the long-running and popular brand.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big collecting questions and issues, Nick Senzel's arrival and some new breaks today.

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls and breaks from around the collecting world -- MLB, NBA, NFL -- in today's edition.

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What's Buzzing Today: Peter Mayhew, MLB attendance, Big Heritage pulls, alleged card-trimming and more in today's edition.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

The Card: 2018 Donruss Optic Red & Yellow #153 Baker Mayfield (RC parallel)
The Reason Graded: I found this one in a Mega Box and it was by far the best highlight of the bunch there so that's why you see it here. Mayfield has shown himself to be a spark plug among a good rookie crop since back when I pulled it, so that's another reason. A third? This brand is one that I like more than others. The color scheme of this card, a retail-exclusive, also looked good, so I figured I'd slab it up and see how it looked when it came back. These were very pricey when they first started arriving on eBay but I'm sure they have settled down by now -- still an impressive card to me either way and I'll be tucking this one away in my stash alongside my Bowman Chrome Tom Brady RC for the simple long-term appreciation. (Mine, not financial.)
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: At the point I submitted this one, there was at most one graded and I'm still surprised that there are so few slabbed. I also was surprised with the grade figuring I'd check in at a likely BGS 9 but I'll take it. I think high-grade copies of retail-only parallels found in certain formats could be tougher future finds than people might think.

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but links to breaks here as Buzz is on the DL for today.

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What's Buzzing Today: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., arrives, big pulls from 2019 Bowman and beyond ... and another rookie goes boom.

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Have you seen the latest cool cards from a new release? With so many options for collectors of all kinds arriving every week it's possible you haven't. That's where Buzz comes in -- well at least on one brand you'll see here from time to time in what we're calling Buzz's Pick Six. Simply put, here are six cards from a new arrival that seemed interesting to this collector and we think they might interest you, too.

This week's releases: 2019 Panini Contenders Draft Picks and 2019 Panini Prizm Draft Picks -- a combo since I truly couldn't decide which way to go during this NFL Draft weekend.

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THE TOP GUY ... 
The Card: Kyler Murray 2019 Panini Prizm Contenders Optic Mojo College Ticket autograph (/15)
The Price: $1,250 opening bid (six days remaining)
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This card is perhaps a tad confusing ... it's a Contenders Optic card from Prizm and there's one in Prizm packs, too, but that one is not serial-numbered to 15 according to the checklists. Either way, this is a big pull and it's got on-card ink of the guy who went first in the 2019 NFL Draft last night and also the Heisman winner who is the only player ever taken in the first round of both the MLB and NFL drafts in the same year. There's a lot of attention and storyline here -- especially with the added Josh Rosen drama -- but he might be the biggest name of the bunch drafted so far when it comes to cardboard. (At least until everybody suits up.) This is an actual auction instead of a Buy-It-Now with new-car pricing attached, so we'll see how much demand there is here in a few days.

Keep reading for five more interesting items in this week's roundup ...

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