You have to admit that us Americans are pretty spoiled with the wide variety of sports we can play. From my house I can walk across the street to a nice indoor basketball court available to me at almost any time of day for free. There are baseball diamonds, basketball hoops and football fields within […]

When I heard about a new line of trading cards Upper Deck was sending out to collectors this week, I was immediately interested. As a huge fan of horse racing, it’s a little tough as there’s not that much for us die-hards to collect and unfortunately horse racing does not do a lot to promote […]

There’s so much going on in sports right now: we’ve got a heated Yankees/Phillies World Series, the start of the NBA season, the NFL is at the halfway point, and hockey is revving up too. Yet with all of these great sports options this time of year, there’s one particular event starting this weekend that […]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that bad news sells. After spending two in-person sessions with a Sports Illustrated journalist named Luke Winn, I was excited to see the story he had written on the 20th Anniversary of the Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card. After sharing all the exciting positives […]

Last February, inside its 2009 Upper Deck Series One Baseball product, Upper Deck released a nine-card insert set entitled: “Historic First Predictors.” The sports card giant made nine bold predictions for 2009 and stated that if any of them came true during the course of the year that it would do “something big.” Well, something […]

Since we started the Brag Photo of the Week on this blog, nothing ceases to amaze me. We’ve shown items featuring figures like Napoleon (https://upperdeck.com/?p=603) and Bill Clinton (https://upperdeck.com/2009/08/brag-photo-of-the-week-clinton-hardball/), and I’m always on my toes waiting for the next email from the game-used room. Check out the latest item to come in: This would be […]

Right now, Tiger Woods is on the warpath after a debilitating injury that could have put many athletes out for good. After spending close to a year on the shelf with a surgically repaired knee, he is coming back with the roar we have become accustomed to seeing. Because Woods has already won a slew […]