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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Topps Basketball Launch Turns Fifth Avenue Into a Hobby Frenzy
The 2025–26 Topps Basketball launch turned Fifth Avenue into a scene of collector frenzy, as fans lined up for hours—and NYPD stepped in—to celebrate the brand’s first NBA-licensed release since 2009.
THE ATHLETIC: Topps regains NBA trading card license, first set to be China exclusive
Then-Topps employee David Leiner witnessed the company losing the NBA license firsthand more than 15 years ago.
BLEACHER REPORT: Cooper Flagg Named 2025-26 Topps Basketball Cover Athlete Ahead of NBA Rookie Season
Ahead of his much-anticipated rookie season, Dallas Mavericks phenom Cooper Flagg is going to be the face of Topps' basketball cards.
VARIETY: Disney Launches Collectible MLB Trading Cards With Topps, Featuring Disney and Pixar Characters
Disney is getting into the MLB trading card business.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Shoeless Joe Jackson gets Bowman 1st Card
With Bowman Chrome set to release on September 23, Topps released one last chase to the product on Wednesday. Within the release, collectors can go after "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's 1st Bowman Retrofractor.
THE ATHLETIC: Topps announces ‘Collector Appreciation Day’ rewards at MLB parks and retail locations
Topps will hold its first ever “Collector Appreciation Day” across the country on Sept. 20, where card collectors can unlock a variety of rewards at several MLB ballparks as well as retailers by simply showing a Topps card.
THE TIMES: Regent Street’s Trendiest Shop? An American trading card import
Queues for West End stores are nothing new. Cult fashion brands like Supreme have a permanent security team; the Chinese store Pop Mart sells “blind box” Labubu collectibles and has a consistent crowd snaking down Oxford Street towards John Lewis.
CNBC: Fanatics is building a loyalty program for sports, rewarding fans with merchandise, tickets and experiences
Fanatics is launching a new loyalty program, reflecting its continued growth and reach in the sports business industry.
AD WEEK: New Fanatics Loyalty Program Introduces Fans to the Brand's Growing Team
Whether a sports fan knows Fanatics as the place they buy jerseys, the spot they find trading cards and memorabilia, the casino where they place bets, or the promoter of their favorite festival, the company increasingly wants them to tie all of those experiences together.
USA TODAY: Caitlin Clark rookie card sells for $660,000, breaking women’s sports card record
Last year, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark set records on the court. Now, thanks to her popularity, she is smashing them off the court too.
ESPN: Signed 1-of-1 Caitlin Clark rookie card sells for $660,000
An autographed Caitlin Clark Logowoman rookie card sold for $660,000 (including buyer's premium) at auction Thursday night, nearly doubling the record paid for a women's card.
TALKSPORT: Topps continue to innovate as Premier League brand new 2025/26 products announced
Premier League fans are about to get more as Topps return as a licensee.
THE ATHLETIC: Top NBA prospect AJ Dybantsa signs exclusive deal with Fanatics
Fanatics and Fanatics Collectibles announced Wednesday they’ve signed incoming BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa to a multi-year exclusive deal, dubbing the pact one of the company’s “most significant NIL deals ever.”
BILLBOARD: Quavo ‘Ready to Bring It Home’ to Perform at The Players Party Ahead of 2025 MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta
With major league baseball quickly approaching the halfway point of the regular season, that only means one thing: The MLB All-Star Game is right around the corner.
BLEACHER REPORT: Josh Harris Buys $500K Jayden Daniels Card In Front of QB at Fanatics Fest
Washington Commanders managing partner Josh Harris has made yet another major financial investment in Jayden Daniels one year after the quarterback was selected with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft.
THE ATHLETIC: Why Fanatics Fest’s ‘Museum of Greatness’ almost didn’t include Tom Brady’s Super Bowl jerseys
Walk to the end of the “Museum of Greatness,” a one-of-a-kind exhibit at Fanatics Fest in the Javits Center and you’ll see the centerpiece of a collection full of centerpieces: seven of Tom Brady’s game-worn Super Bowl jerseys, including his Super Bowl LI jersey, which was stolen after the game and eventually recovered by the FBI.
COMPLEX: Fanatics Fest's Museum of Greatness to Feature $200 Million of Memorabilia From LeBron and More
Over $200 million worth of various inarguable examples of greatness in action will be housed in the newly announced Museum of Greatness.
YAHOO! SPORTS: Topps introduces Debut Patch card for UFC
Topps is expanding its popular event-worn autograph cards to the UFC.
COMPLEX: Tom Brady Stars in the Debut Episode of the New Complex and Fanatics Series 'Card Shopping'
Complex and Fanatics have partnered for a new series that explores the world of trading cards with some of the biggest names in pop culture.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: David Ortiz Sees the Future of Baseball in Latest Collaboration with Topps Trading Cards
Long before he was a 10-time MLB All-Star, a three-time World Series champion, and a first-ballot Baseball Hall of Famer, David Ortiz was just a kid from the Dominican Republic, dreaming of one day playing in the big leagues.
