-
Subscribe
-
Categories
- Announcers
- Authentication
- Autographs
- Beckett
- Bowman
- Box Breaks
- Business
- Card Shows
- Cardcollectingrambler
- Cards
- Cool Sites
- Customs
- Donruss
- eBay
- Grading
- Interviews
- Market Conditions
- McFarlane
- MLB
- NAXCOM
- NBA
- NFL
- NHL
- PR
- Price Guide
- PSA
- SCD
- Site News
- Sportkings
- Starting Lineups
- Topps
- Tuff Stuff
- Uncategorized
- Upper Deck
- Videos
-
Recent Posts
- New SportsLizard Logo
- Good Performance + Sub Par Record = Falling Values
- Now That I Think About It…
- Blogs - How I Think the Card Industry Will Be Saved
- MLB Briefs
- Would We Be Better Without Beckett and Tuff Stuff?
- New Customs Submission Form
- PSA Launches Marketplace on Collectors Corner
- McFarlane Announces Giants Championship Team Set
- Beckett Announces Major Site Overhaul
-
Misc
-
Monthly Archives
- Older Stories
- Older Newsletters
- Older Press
Blogs - How I Think the Card Industry Will Be Saved
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:21 am | Filed Under Cool Sites, Cards, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Authentication
Way back in 2004 when I started SportsLizard I couldn’t find too many other sites where collectors spoke their minds. In the past four years my role in the industry has changed. I went from collector, to collector who owned a collectibles business and wrote about it, to business owner who rarely collects and spends […]
Would We Be Better Without Beckett and Tuff Stuff?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under Cards, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, eBay
Ben Henry runs arguably the best card blog on the web - The Baseball Card Blog. If you don’t already read it, you should. The other day he posed an interesting question: in five years will Beckett and Tuff Stuff have price guides that still matter in the hobby?
With its low prices […]
Beckett Announces Major Site Overhaul
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:45 pm | Filed Under Beckett, Tuff Stuff
Feeling the pressure of sites like NAXCOM and facing a perception that card collecting doesn’t have a place in today’s day and age, Beckett is finally attempting to bring the cards and collectibles industry into the 21st century with a major site redesign. Let’s face it: all collectors use Beckett in some fashion - forums, […]
Tuff Stuff Radio: Some Good, Some Bad
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:56 pm | Filed Under Tuff Stuff
I finally had a chance to listen to Tuff Stuff Radio this morning. Contrary to my earlier report, they are not providing programing 24 x 7 x 365….not even close to it. There is a one hour show every Wednesday at 1 PM and the show is re-aired every hour on the hour until the […]
Tuff Stuff Radio 24×7 - An Odd Move
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 5:48 pm | Filed Under Tuff Stuff
I opened up my inbox this afternoon and saw my weekly Tuff Stuff newsletter headlined with ‘Sports Collectors Radio to debut Feb 15′. I figured it would be a weekly radio show that lasted a few hours and the podcast would be available on iTunes to download and I thought to myself “wow, […]
Random Thoughts on a Slow Week
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:13 pm | Filed Under MLB, NFL, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, NHL, Donruss
Don’t worry, I haven’t been neglecting this blog lately. There just hasn’t been ANY interesting collectibles news lately worth commenting on. Usually a few times a week I see something and say “I need to write an article about that”. Not so much lately. In the interest of not leaving this blog untouched for too […]
Vick Cards Magically Slipping Through
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:49 pm | Filed Under NFL, Topps, Tuff Stuff
From Scott Kelnhofer on the Tuff Stuff Blog:
Five separate Michael Vick cards from the recently released Topps Chrome Football set have sold on eBay in the past week. That’s noteworthy because Topps had announced in early August that it was removing all of Vick’s cards from the remainder of its 2007 product line, and Topps […]
Questions Arise From Poor Attendance at The National
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 3:18 pm | Filed Under Tuff Stuff
The “On Your Side” column by T.J. Schwartz in Tuff Stuff Magazine is my favorite regular column in the magazine because he “tells it like it is” more than any other writer they have. When I flipped open my October 2007 issue I was anxious to read T.J’s column about The National Sports Collectors […]
Autograph Fading and Authentication
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:49 pm | Filed Under Tuff Stuff, Authentication
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of authentication. Just like any collector with half a brain, I see the potential value in it if done correctly, but I also see all of the pitfalls with the way things are done now and am not afraid to criticize. In the “On […]
Tuff Stuff Error - The Derek Jeter Football League?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 6:41 pm | Filed Under Tuff Stuff
Check out the lead story in “Web Stuff” in the May 2007 Issue of Tuff Stuff:
Now take a look at June 2007:
I didn’t know that Derek Jeter, Randy Johnson, and Billy Ripken were part of a football league! Can we get an editor in the house? Someone’s got to catch that before going […]