What's Buzzing: Big things coming for Caitlin Clark collectors, Chase Burns, 2025 Topps Series 2, The National, MLB chatter and "the flood of 1/1s."

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1 -- Panini is readying a massive Caitlin Clark release ... (teaser video here)

2 -- "The flood of 1/1s"

3 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

4 -- More MLB chatter is here

5 -- Chase Burns debut reactions

6 -- The National section

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What's Buzzing: Chase Burns arrives, 2025 Topps Series 2, The National, that new Brewers SP with a long name and more in this edition.

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1 -- All your MLB chatter is here

2 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

3 -- Chase Burns gets the call

4 -- Living in a bubble?

5 -- Talking that new Brewers SP with a long name

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: Kevin Durant traded, NBA champs crowned, new card chatter and more for a new week.

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1 -- Thunderstruck: We've got new NBA champs

2 -- Kevin Durant to the Rockets

3 -- 'Fest chatter

4 -- The Lakers have a new owner

5 -- All your National chatter

6 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

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What's Buzzing: The NBA Finals end tonight, 2025 Topps Series 2, James Wood cards, The National and more.

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1 -- New NBA champs take throne tonight

2 -- A Series 2 break

3 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

4 -- James Wood cards are worth the look

5 -- All your National chatter

6 -- Big-picture thoughts these days

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What's Buzzing: The NBA Finals head to Game 7 on Sunday, new MLB pulls, 2025 Topps Series 2, "nerd stats did this" and more in this Saturday edition.

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1 -- New NBA champs take throne on Sunday

2 -- "Nerd stats did this"

3 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

4 -- Case hits ...

5 -- New MLB pulls

6 -- All your National chatter

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What's Buzzing: The NBA Finals head to Game 7, 2025 Topps Series 2 and more on collectors' minds.

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1 -- NBA Finals are going seven games

2 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

3 -- Feeling 'Festive ... 

4 -- Talking Ken Griffey Jr. cards

5 -- Tampa Bay Rays to be sold

6 -- All your National chatter is here

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What's Buzzing: 2025 Topps Series 2, NBA Finals, inside some 2025 Donruss, new pulls, Nick Kurtz and more.

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1 -- Breaking down a Donruss box

2 -- Talking Nick Kurtz

3 -- A Hall of Fame question 

4 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

5 -- New MLB pulls

6 -- NBA Finals working toward a champion

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Buzz buys a lot of stuff these days and for a few reasons, really. Sometimes it's just bargain-hunting, sometimes it's just something that strikes me. And other times it's a lot -- a group of things -- and that has happened enough lately I figured I'd try something different as a regularly appearing item. Sometimes my lots will be wins, sometimes they won't be ... but I'll let you decide. 

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RARER FROM RINGSIDE 
The Lot: 14 Ringside tier SPs/parallels from 2023 Panini Select WWE
The Price: Not much more than a blaster at some retail chains (with tax)

Keep reading for more on this one ...

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What's Buzzing: Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge? That's the question leading the way in this midweek edition.

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1 -- Ohtani or Judge?

2 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

3 -- This thread is kind of a big deal

4 -- New MLB pulls are here

5 -- A slab question

6 -- NBA Finals chatter

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What's Buzzing: The NBA Finals heat up, new pulls, NFL chatter, The National, Rafael Devers and, of course, 2025 Topps Series 2.

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1 -- NBA Finals reactions

2 -- New MLB pulls are here

3 -- The National is coming

4 -- Lots of NFL topics 

5 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

6 -- Reactions: Rafael Devers to the Giants

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What: 2025 Panini Prizm K League soccer cards
Arrives: July 7
Box basics: One autograph per 10-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Prizm turns its colorful spotlight to the footballers of South Korea in a release that packs a lot into each box and offers many of the traditional chases from the brand.

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What's Buzzing: Rafael Devers to the Giants, Shohei Ohtani returns to the mound tonight, 2025 Topps Series 2, NBA Finals, The National and ... a lesson for the future?

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1 -- Reactions: Rafael Devers to the Giants

2 -- Talking 2025 Topps Series 2

3 -- Shohei Ohtani makes Dodgers pitching debut tonight 

4 -- A lesson for the future?

5 -- NBA Finals chatter

6 -- The National section is open

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What's Buzzing: 2025 Topps Series 2, new The Cup pulls, Bowman blasters deliver, grading chatter, The National and the NBA Finals.

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1 -- Talking 2025 Topps Series 2

2 -- Some finds from The Cup

3 -- Bowman blasters for the win

4 -- Talking grading

5 -- NBA Finals chatter

6 -- The National section is open

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What's Buzzing: MLB chatter, The National, Frank Gore Jr.'s autos, the NBA Finals and more in this Friday edition.

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1 -- All your MLB chatter is here

2 -- Eleven years?

3 -- NBA Finals chatter

4 -- Still on their minds: 2025 Topps Series 2

5 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s autos ...

6 -- The National section is open

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USA Baseball is still on Panini America's team.

Both parties revealed on Thursday that a third extension of their licensing deal that launched in 2012 has been signed, giving Panini the exclusive rights to create baseball cards for its stable of teams. That includes the Collegiate, 18U, 15U and 12U National Teams as well as its National Team Development Programs. It will also usher in the first cards for the USA Baseball Women’s National Team.

“For 14 years, Panini America and USA Baseball have collaborated to provide unparalleled early access to cards of the game’s next generation of stars,” said USA Baseball COO David Perkins in a prepared statement. “With today’s announcement, we are pleased to continue our partnership, and now also capture and deliver USA Baseball’s national team players, gold medals and other defining moments for the organization to Panini Instant.”

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What's Buzzing: NBA Finals action, 2025 Topps Series 2, Frank Gore Jr.'s ink, The National and more.

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1 -- NBA Finals chatter

2 -- A lot of patience

3 -- New & on their minds: 2025 Topps Series 2

4 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s autos ...

5 -- Highlights from a Series 2 rip

6 -- The National section is open

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What: 2025 Score football cards
Arrives: July 3, 2025
Box basics: Four autographs per 10-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Score once again kicks off Panini's 2025 NFL lineup soon with new rookies, plenty of stars, all those familiar inserts and more for football collectors.

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What's Buzzing: 2025 Topps Series 2 is here, new MLB pulls, Hidden Gems, Frank Gore Jr.'s ink, NBA Finals and The National.

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1 -- New today: 2025 Topps Series 2 is here

2 -- MLB pulls are here

3 -- Hidden Gems no more

4 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s Topps autos ...

5 -- NBA Finals chatter ... and even more NBA

6 -- The National section is open

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For years now, I've said that every card has a story ... but, every once in a while, a celebrity's meandering tale has chapters you might not even know about and, in a few really rare instances, there might even be some cardboard to go with it.

That's the case for me with this card this time -- I'm a grizzled veteran collector who's seen plenty, forgotten even more and collected all kinds of directions as players come and go in the traditional sports realm. TV shows and movies come and go on other cardboard, too, and times just sometimes change for collectibles ... just like my sometimes-meandering tastes. But this one? It was something that's right in my wheelhouse as a Shotzi Blackheart collector and it's totally new to me so here we are. She's a pro wrestler and a unique, self-made character if you don't know -- find her in WWE boxes here.

Not that long ago, I spotted a set that had me doing a spit-take, then a double-take -- and all of that was followed up by picking up my jaw off the floor, a click to buy and then hoping that the stuff would actually arrive. In short, it was something I'd never, ever seen before -- or even seen in a photo anywhere at any time. It's a card set for Creepy KOFY Movie Time, a watch-along late-night TV series that ran several years on KOFY Channel 20 in San Francisco that celebrated the retro horror movie genre with a surf music-serving house band called The Deadlies, as well as regular characters for bits, guests for other segments and then a regular go-go dancer ensemble on stage at all times called the Cave Girls, which marked Blackheart's TV debut. The series came to an end just as her indy wrestling career was taking off and eventually took her around the world with WWE.

The card set is from 2013 -- the year before Blackheart's pro wrestling debut in the indies with Oakland-based edgy and irreverent promotion Hoodslam where she was aligned with the Stoner Brothers (a parody of a famous team) under a Missy Hyatt-inspired moniker for a debut match on ... April 20. (Get it?) This name, though, which she has used otherwise for the rest of her wrestling career and to this day post-WWE, originated before that -- "Shotzi" comes from a nickname based off a character in a musical called Starmites (and her role in a high-school production) and "Blackheart" was an ode to Joan Jett and her band, The Blackhearts.

That's here captured in this set with some eccentric characters that you'd expect to find with the genre. It was a show broadcast from a "cave" under the TV studio with a demon (Balrok) and a zombie (No Name) as its hosts. This card set came two years before her attempt at WWE fame as part of its Tough Enough reality show -- she made it but then didn't when they found she had a health issue -- and then seven years before her eventual arrival on WWE cards (2020) as an NXT star. In between was a busy indy wrestling run where "The Ballsy Badass" left her red hair behind in favor of her trademark neon green and crafted her horned-helmet, tank-driving ways that she rode right into WWE unchanged.

Now, what's my convoluted headline and that Tom Cruise cameo all about?

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What's Buzzing: Denzel Clarke, Jac Caglianone, NBA Finals, Frank Gore Jr.'s autograph, The National and an impressive Mets autograph booklet.

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1 -- Denzel Clarke's catch has 'em talking

2 -- NBA Finals chatter ... and even more NBA

3 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s Topps autos ...

4 -- Talking Jac Caglianone

5 -- Check out the Mets booklet here

6 -- The National section is open

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What: 2025 Panini Select NASCAR cards
Arrives: Aug. 8
Box basics:  Two autographs and one memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Select once again hits the NASCAR circuit with an array of potential collecting finds with a tiered set, plenty of parallels and a hit in every fourth pack.

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What: 2025 Donruss WNBA basketball cards
Arrives: Oct. 2
Box basics: Three autographs or memorabilia cards per 12-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Donruss WNBA returns to the court with a variety-packed mix of inclusions that will take collectors Downtown (of course) as well as on and off the court.

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What's Buzzing: NBA Finals chatter, The National, hot takes, WWE, MLB and more in this Monday edition.

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1 -- Talkin' baseball

2 -- Big-picture hot takes

3 -- WWE chatter after a busy weekend

4 -- Some NBA Finals Game 2 reactions ... and even more NBA

5 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s Topps autos ...

6 -- The National section is open

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What's Buzzing: Awaiting the next NBA Finals game, MLB chatter, scouting upcoming MLB sets, The National, Frank Gore Jr. and who's next in the NBA?

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1 -- Scouting future MLB release potential

2 -- All your MLB chatter is here

3 -- Who's next in the NBA?

4 -- Awaiting the next NBA Finals game

5 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s Topps autos ...

6 -- The National section is open

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What's Buzzing: NBA Finals chatter, Jac Caglianone's sluggish start, new pulls, pondering 1/1 prices and more.

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1 -- NBA Finals chatter is here

2 -- Talking Jac with his sluggish start

3 -- Some pulls from The Cup

4 -- Pondering 1/1 prices ... 

5 -- So, about Frank Gore Jr.'s Topps autos ...

6 -- The National section is open

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