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From digital to the throwback, Topps keeps trying to reinvent itself, and give fans a little extra to bring them back to the brand. They are also trying to advance the audience through new partnerships, and this week rolled out the latest: cards with MLB’s approval of players who have ...

Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ only World Series title, author David Krell’s Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture (October 1, 2015; $29.95) brings to life the lesser-known stories of the team’s 125-year history. With the Foreword written by Branch Rickey III, ...

Premium TV network EPIX and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced that EPIX Presents Road To the NHL Winter Classic™ will be returning to the channel and will make its U.S. television premiere Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 10pm ET/PT, 9C.  The weekly series, consisting of four one-hour episodes, will ...

We have heard a good amount about Floyd Mayweather since his mega-meeting with Manny Pacquiao and then his supposed last-ever fight with Andre Berto, but what’s been up with the legendary boxer from The Philippines. He surfaced this week to accept the Asian Game Changers Award from the Asia Society, ...

A trio of preeminent New York Times sports columnists – Dave Anderson, George Vecsey and Harvey Araton – will reflect on the extraordinary life and career of Yogi Berra in a panel discussion at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., on Monday, Oct. 19 at ...

After thousands of online votes, the “Final Five” athletes have been chosen for a chance to be featured on Card No. 1 in 2016 Topps® Baseball Series One, joining a line of players that has included Hank Aaron, Ted Williams and Derek Jeter. It is the first time ever fans ...

Ten of the National Pastime’s legendary voices have been named as the finalists for the 2015 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The 10 finalists for the 2015 Frick Award are: Richie Ashburn, Billy Berroa, Rene ...

‎Fairfield University basketball will present three award-winning sports commentators – ESPN standouts Len Elmore and Jackie MacMullan, and the legendary Bob Wolff – with the Third Annual “Stags Lifetime Achievement Award: Leader of the Herd” for long and meritorious service on Tuesday night, November 10, at the Manhattan Club (@ ...

Next year is an election year, so Topps is letting the fans pick who will be the number one card in their 2016 set. For the first time ever, the official partner of Major League Baseball is letting fans vote for the player currently active today who replace Derek Jeter ...

Nate Checketts has been around big time sports all his life. As the son of former St. Louis Blues owner and President of Madison Square Garden Dave Checketts he probably has a better understanding of the way sports business works, and sometimes doesn’t work, better than most entrepreneurs. So maybe ...