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What's Buzzing Today: Rat-bone Relic reactions, 1990s insert cards, 2015 Panini National Treasures baseball cards. 2015 Leaf Ultimate tennis cards and 2015 Panini Select soccer cards.

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Super Bowl 50 is coming soon and Panini America teased the first of its plans for the big game's milestone event on Friday -- and that includes commemorative cardboard for the past as well as the present.

A 20-card Super Bowl Highlights set will be found at the company's booth during the Super Bowl 50 NFL Experience, a nine-day interactive that starts on Jan. 30 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

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Have you struggled to find some of the autographs in Panini America's 2015-16 Panini Contenders Draft Picks basketball set?

Perhaps that's because your player is a short-print. The company revealed its lists of two short-print types on Thursday.

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Chip Kelly is your new coach of the San Francisco 49ers after two tumultuous seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles but none of that -- the good or the bad -- probably matters when it comes to his Rookie Cards from 2015 Panini Contenders.

Why? Because they're already selling.

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Soccer is a sport that many collectors probably overlook because it's not the traditional America-based pastime, but Panini America's recently released 2015 Panini Select set shows there are a few reasons that they should pay attention.

A few thousand (dollar) reasons.

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Mike Moynihan
Also known as: Moyni
Website: None
Email: gonzaleznut@hotmail.com
Location: Texas
Work away from cards: Financial planner
Collecting since: 1981

Main focuses: I collect Hall of Famer autos and Hall of Famer game-used cards. I also have big Josh Hamilton (almost 2,000 different and more than 100 1/1s) and Ivan Rodriguez (more than 2,500 different with 60 1/1s) player collections. I also have every Topps base set from 1973 to present as well as a bunch of Topps Heritage sets.

Favorite players/teams: Texas Rangers are my favorite team, and I am a big Josh Hamilton and Ivan Rodriguez fan.

Current collecting projects: I am trying to complete the 2015 Panini Immaculate Accolades Materials set. I only need one more card -- the Babe Ruth /5.

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Tom Gaydos
Also Known As: hudsonfan15
Website: www.youtube.com/user/hudsonfan15
Email: hudsonfan15@gmail.com
Location: Connecticut
Work away from cards: Client services for a furniture and textiles company
Collecting since: 1989

Main focuses: Rare items of my favorite player/team.

Favorite players/teams: Tim Hudson, Colts, MMA -- especially Cowboy Cerrone.

Current collecting projects: Always looking for anything rare/nice of Huddy.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: The Steiner Sports Cleveland Browns trade-in, Nick Saban's greatness, some Panini America NBA and baseball cases and one mighty pack of Star Wars cards.

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This week's new release schedule is a bit icy, a bit historic and a bit patriotic despite there being just six products set to arrive in hobby shops.

Coming on Wednesday is 2015-16 Upper Deck Trilogy hockey, which will include one rookie autograph, one memorabilia card and one "premium" autograph per box. Among them will be Tryptichs like you can see above and variations based on stats and debut seasons. The wide mix of possibilities should make these eight-pack boxes ones that get ripped quickly.
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Kevin Durant will remain a part of the Panini America team for an extended and exclusive amount of time after signing a new deal with the company that was announced on Monday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder star will be a global spokesman for the company's trading cards and its Panini Authentic memorabilia line -- an exclusive deal that applies with cards, autographs, marketing and business development.

“Kevin Durant is one of the most recognizable professional athletes in the world but he transcends the game of basketball,” said Mark Warsop, Panini America CEO, in a prepared release. “The way he carries himself on and off the court is as inspirational to us as it is to millions of fans throughout the world. We’re proud to be entering this new exclusive relationship with Kevin and the Panini family and look forward to a bright future with him. He’s meant so much to our company, our products and our brand and we’re excited to expand that relationship through both Kevin’s business sense and his fanbase.”

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: National Treasures hits and case breaks, the dirty Cincinnati Bengals, the dirty Pittsburgh Steelers, Carlos Correa, Panini Rewards and more ...

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Panini America revealed two lists of short-printed autographs found in packs of 2015 Panini Contenders baseball cards on Saturday.

One is a list of cards limited to 50 or fewer cards. The other notes cards with less than 200 copies.

Keep reading to see them all.

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The newest edition of Panini America's highest-end baseball brand is here with a mix of big names from the past, big names from today and some potential stars of tomorrow, too.

From sweet spot autographs and inscriptions to legendary memorabilia pieces and deluxe books it looks like 2015 Panini National Treasures has a bit of everything for everyone. (Even Buzz's favorite player.)

With that said, here's a gallery of cards collectors have pulled so far on Day 1 of the release as found on eBay. Buzz will add a few hits from BlowoutTV here, soon, too.

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We should all know by now how good Stephen Curry is by his play on the basketball court.

But maybe we should look at his basketball cards, too.

The reigning league MVP and leader of the defending NBA champs has been hot on cardboard for a while now. How hot? Well, you might call it new-car hot as his high-end rare cards are often priced in small-new-car territory.

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What: 2016 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards
Arrives: March 9
Box basics: Five autographs per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: This year's top college stars who have declared for the 2016 NFL Draft will have some of their first cards here with the familiar pro look of Contenders while still showcasing their school colors.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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If you're a regular Buzz reader, then you know all about the popularlity of San Francisco 49ers practice squad member Jarryd Hayne. He's a former rugby player from Australia whose limited NFL time this season sparked some interest in his Rookie Cards.

With the arrival of 2015 Panini Contenders this week, there was a new twist -- the company couldn't land an autograph deal for his Rookie Tickets. However, that didn't stop demand for his cardboard after Panini America decided to release the cards without ink but a stamp -- in short-printed fashion.

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Panini America's high-end standard arrives for the third time in baseball this week and the mystery of what's in 2015 Panini National Treasures has been solved.

What's in it this year? Get the checklist right here.

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For 2015-16 Panini America products that don't get a standalone story here on The Buzz when a final checklist is released, we'll place a link to a PDF of the set's checklist right here.

You'll be able to find all new checklists in PDF form as released by the company and all in one spot. (If traffic stats show us you guys like this format, we'll expand in other directions. If not, Buzz will focus on other stuff.)

Keep reading to see the Panini America checklists posted so far.

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At least one of them is no longer with his team, but there are five "Rookie Cards" in 2015 Panini Contenders that collectors might not expect to see.

And their autographs might go for more than you might expect, too.

Why? They're NFL coaches -- and they, for the most part, don't have any other certified autograph cards.

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Panini America has revealed the checklist for its 2015 Panini Contenders football card set, giving collectors the first look at who's in and what variations there might be for this year's crop of rookies.

Click here to download a PDF of the checklist.

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Way back in 1999, Elton Brand was a star center for the Duke Blue Devils -- a center from tiny Peekskill, N.Y., who was about to make a big impression as the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft.

Fast-forward to today and the former Chicago Bull is coming out of retirement to join the NBA's worst team -- the Philadelphia 76ers, owners of a 3-33 record -- to help mentor another former Blue Devils star and first-round pick, Jahlil Okafor. Okafor, of course, has had issues off the court this season while also picking up the NBA game quickly. It's a match made in Blue Devils collecting heaven.

"He's not unlike most 20-year-olds you probably know, and he's definitely not at all different than most of his fellow players," Brand wrote in a piece for Sports Illustrated's website. "... if camera phones were around when Brad Miller, Ron Artest and I were Jahlil's age, we might've been banned from the league altogether, never mind suspended for a few games."

So, what about Brand on cardboard?

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Panini America starts off the new year with not one but four new products scheduled to arrive this week -- from four different sports, too. Meanwhile, there's only one other brand on the calendar.

The biggest for most collectors is the arrival of 2015 Panini Contenders football cards with the annual chase for the Rookie Ticket autographs one that's been a mainstay for years. Which ones will be short-prints? Which ones are variations and which ones aren't? We'll find out more beginning Wednesday. Each box includes at least five autographs -- and it looks like some of them might be coaches who have never signed before. Will those be short-prints? Should be interesting to watch.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Contenders variations, game-dated Relic confusion, signing 1/1 cards & more

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Panini Contenders baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
19 of 99 (19 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notable names pulled on base cards: Dansby Swanson, Barry Larkin, Aaron Nola, Aaron Judge

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Simply put, it pays to follow @blowoutcards and @blowoutbuzz on Twitter.

Besides the latest info about your hobby and collecting, there are also contests -- and we're here on the first day of 2016 to reveal the final contest winners of 2015.

Boxes of Topps' Star Wars cards, Upper Deck's hockey cards, Topps' 2015 Bowman Draft baseball cards and Panini America's football cards were up for grabs with a simple retweet contest that developed on Twitter Thursday evening.

Were you one of the winners?

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