Derek Jeter’s Sports-Card Trading Platform Raises $10M
Arena Club, a card-trading platform co-founded by baseball Hall-of-Famer Derek Jeter, recently raised $10 million in Series A funding as it looks to put the ‘trading…
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Sporticast: Athletes Shed ‘Hired Help’ Ethos as Tech Presents New Options
On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including takeaways from a…
Sports Trading Cards Evolve Into a Viable Alternative Asset Class
PWCC Marketplace recently established a $175 million asset-based credit facility with WhiteHawk Capital Partners, a private credit investment manager. The trading-card…
Ken Kendrick’s Cards Are Worth 9 Figures. They’re Not for Sale
The 42nd National Sports Collectors Convention took place this past weekend at the Atlantic City Convention Center, and drew tens of thousands of trading card, autograph…
NFTs Keep Low Profile at National Sports Collectors Convention
The National Sports Collectors Convention—so esteemed that regulars know it simply as “The National”—is an event built on nostalgia. Attendees at this week’s…
Fanatics Makes Major Push Into College Trading Cards
Fanatics’ $10.4 billion trading card venture is expanding into college sports. The group says it has inked exclusive and non-exclusive licensing deals with more than 100…
Fanatics-WWE Deal Covers E-commerce, Licensed Goods, Cards and NFTs
Fanatics has signed a wide-ranging partnership with WWE, the first of what it hopes will be a number of deals that reflect the rapid expansion of the company. The…
A Tom Brady Card Just Sold for $1.23 Million. It Could Be Worth More Now
A Tom Brady rookie card sold for more than $1 million over the weekend and that could turn out to be a real deal for its new owner, according to Robb Report. An…
Booming Sport Card Industry Charts Digital Future Amid Disruption
Jason Masherah, who has been at Upper Deck since 2005, remembers how people used to react when he’d tell them he worked in the trading card industry: “They’d say…
WWE Leaves Topps for Panini Amid Swiftly Evolving Card Landscape
Today marks the debut of the SporticoU newsletter, a twice-monthly roundup of news and analysis for readers in the university community. Sign up for it here. And now…
NHL, Union Extend With Upper Deck Amid Trading Card Upheaval
The National Hockey League and its players’ union are extending their trading card relationships with Upper Deck, a long-term renewal that will make the legacy…
From Bobbleheads to Buffalo Wings, Supply Chain Chaos Hits Sports
From Chicago Sky championship gear to youth football helmets, pandemic-related effects are continuing to wreak havoc on supply chains more than 18 months after COVID-19…
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