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		<title>Featured Retailer: New York’s Card Shack Celebrates 25 Years in the Hobby!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We love to spotlight our Certified Diamond Dealer partners and some reasons why you need to visit their stores. We especially love to share stories about shops who have managed to become successful for a long time. And that is the case with Card Shack in Lynbrook, New York. Steve Cardi is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brag Photo: 2011 Upper Deck Exquisite Football Cards Continue to Arrive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we first announced that there would be a 2011 Upper Deck Exquisite Football set at the 2012 Las Vegas Industry Summit, the room buzzed with excitement. And there was plenty to be excited about as Certified Diamond Dealers in attendance enjoyed seeing the return of UD Black and the new Exquisite Dimensions autograph cards. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brag Photo: Upper Deck’s College Mascot Patch Card Complete Set</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new College Mascot patch cards found in 2012 Upper Deck Football have been white hot in the secondary market and more than a few collectors have made the decision to put this set together. We put together a set and grabbed the guys who built the product to talk about what components made it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winnipeg Jets Fans Love Superstars Sports Collectibles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 22:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve known Al Franklin, the owner of Superstars Sports Collectibles, for quite awhile now and he is one of the best store owners I have ever met. I feel this way primarily because he works very hard to provide his customers with a store that is very well maintained and an experience they will not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Agent Phil Coulson’s Vintage Captain America Trading Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw Marvel’s The Avengers and the acclaim it is getting is well deserved in my opinion. It was great watching The Avengers “assemble” and without a doubt one of the main reasons they did so was because of Special Agent Phil Coulson’s vintage Captain America trading cards. That’s right, had it not been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send Your Birthday Wishes to Jeff Skinner and Score!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Jeff Skinner’s birthday and we have enjoyed a great relationship with him thus far in his young career. Whether it was working with him at the NHL All-Star Game in North Carolina or helping him learn how to handle the dreaded man-crush fan, we have really had a lot of fun with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LeBron James is Proving to Be a MVP On and Off the Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After LeBron James made “The Decision,” most basketball fans immediately resented him. Maybe that is putting it mildly. The LeBron haters swiftly came out of the woodwork and have been pumping a steady stream of angry rants against the NBA star since he moved south to play in Miami. It didn’t help when the Cleveland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Moms Collect Upper Deck Trading Cards? You Better Believe It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend we asked our Facebook fans if there were any mothers out there who like collecting Upper Deck cards and we were surprised to receive so many responses. Having a mom that collects has got to be a dream come true for their kids and such is the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Wrestlers Deserve a Place in Multi-Sport Trading Card Sets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up as a closet wrestling fan spending my Saturday mornings watching Hulk Hogan, Sgt. Slaughter, Nikolai Volkoff, the Iron Shiek, George “The Animal” Steele, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and so many others squaring off in the ring. For me back then, it seemed like the fate of the world hung in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UD Makes Collectors a &#8220;Priority&#8221; at the Sports Cards and Collectibles Expo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year Upper Deck makes a trek to Toronto,  Canada for the Sports Cards and Collectibles Expo where thousands of rabid hockey fans turn out in droves. And we don&#8217;t come empty handed. UD spends a lot of time (and money) putting together one of the most appreciated autograph card sets in the [...]]]></description>
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