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As much as I love baseball, the NFL is a mighty juggernaut that just can't be stopped. Football is quickly becoming the sport that everyone talks about year round. I know I was excited about this year's NFL Draft and now that it's over some new 2013 football products are starting to release. I thought about doing a box or two of Topps Archives, but then I checked out 2013 Score and the hobby only jumbo boxes are absolutely loaded! Check it out:Each Score Jumbo Box contains Three Autographs/Memorabilia Cards, Fifty Rookies, Ten Hot Rookies, and Ten Parallels!Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Score Football with Rookie Cards inspired by the landmark 1989 design!The first officially licensed 2013 Rookie Cards with updated draft information. Rookie Cards fall five per hobby jumbo!At least two autographs per box!Find Road to the Super Bowl subset featuring the Super Bowl Champions!Look for the 1st official Rookie Cards & Rookie Cards Autographs!PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:25TH ANNIVERSARY: 110 Rookies, five per pack, based on the 1989 Score design, updated to reflect drafted team & round information, look for limited Black & Purple parallels.HOT ROOKIE SIGNATURES: Combination of their new pro uniforms along with their 1st rookie card signatures will certainly makes these cards theearly highly prized chase cards of the season, look for rare Showcase, Artist's Proof & Showcase Artist's Proof versions.ROOKIE SIGNATURES: The 1st autographs of the incoming 2013 Draft Class within weeks of the draft.Printing Plates: Look for 1 of 1 Printing Plates of the Commons, Subsets, Rookies & Hot Rookies.Hot Rookies: The top picks of the 2013 draft are featured in their new pro uniform, one per Hobby Jumbo. Look for Hobby limited Showcase, Artist's Proof & Showcase Artist's versions.Inscriptions: Current stars (Peyton Manning/Adrian Peterson) & rising stars (Colin Kaepernick/Andrew Luck) are featured in this limited autograph insert.10 Packs Per Box, 50 Cards Per Pack I think Panini has done an excellent job "upgrading" the Score brand from previous years. If we act now we can bust on jumbo box using a 2 team per slot format.16 two team slots available. Pick one team of your choice. Once all the slots have been filled, then the unclaimed teams will be randomly assigned to all participants. Each two team slot will only cost you $10.00 shipped! Pretty good, huh? To sweeten the deal I'll send each participant extra cards of the team you choose. There might even be some extra loose packs tossed into the break.Now I'm asking if you are interested in this break to claim your team and make your payment immediately. To claim your first team please leave a comment in this post with your choice.Send your gift payment via PayPal to: cardboardcollections @ yahoo . comPlease also e-mail me your mailing address to the same e-mail above.The faster we can get this filled up the faster we can get to breaking!If you have any questions please let me know. Of course if we don't get enough interest in this break I'll gladly refund everyone's money.01) Carolina Panthers (Cardboard Collections)02)03)04)05)06)07)08)09)10)11)12)13)14)15)16)

Alex Wilson writes; Phoenix Comic Con is happening right now this weekend and guess what? I’m here covering the convention for all of you. I picked up some great little treats at the convention. In the order of what I purchased: Supurbia by Grace Randolph (Rich Johnston has a nice little quote on the cover), Ghost Projekt because I’m a sucker for anything Joe Harris writes, and Rachel Rising by Terry Moore (TV show in the works and I thought I should see what everyone is talking about.) I also picked up a small little print from Agnes Garbowska. I love her style so much and she was a treat of a person to meet.   The convention was exciting Friday. A girl’s dress became entangled in the escalator. She was a good sport about the whole ordeal and kept a smile on her face. If my dress had been caught in the gears of an escalator, I would have been crying my eyes out. (I’m kidding. I’m a guy. Why would I wear a dress in public?) Security was trying to get the dress unhinged without tearing it. I always find security at conventions funny as well. They make everyone form a line so they can look in their bags but they really don’t look, do they? You open the bag up, they see you have opened the bag, and the exchange ends there. It seems the checking inside of the bags is glossed over for the most part. Although, I have seen a huge number of Phoenix police officers walking around the convention floor. Every time I see them, for a second, I think they are just great cosplayers. The Bleeding Cool fan awards took place and Saga did very well (I was hoping Revival would get a nod.) Fiona and Brian were not there to accept, though. They had another conflict with another award show I was told. Everyone seemed to have a good time, though. People laughed and gave acceptance speeches for Saga. Scott Snyder and Rob Liefeld won best feud of the last 12 months. Snyder also walked away with best comic writer of 2013 so far. I’m sure everyone who wasn’t there to accept their awards wishes they could have been. The big award of the night, most attractive (fanciable) in the industry, went to Grant Morrison, and what a sexy beast he is. I was surprised to see publishers like Boom, Oni, and Valiant at this convention. Phoenix Comic Con, to my knowledge, is about 30,000 people. I’ve never been to a convention of this size, and what I mean by that is I’ve been to conventions like C2E2, NYCC, and SDCC but also small conventions of no more than a few thousand. This was an in between number and I had no idea what to expect from this con. Needless to say, I have been pleasantly surprised this weekend. There has been some great cosplay this weekend as well. I know everyone loves cosplay photos and I love taking them. Here are a few convention fans that dressed to impress. I have to say my favorite is the Avatar Aang followed by the Halo Spartans. The Umbrella corporation soldiers did a dandy job by coming in a group. The girl in a pink bikini, I can’t say I know what she’s exactly from but she was kneeling over someone’s chest and had prop gun pointed at him. I thought it wasn’t a bad idea to take a photo. Friday, Phoenix Comicon, Cosplay And Swag

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Thousand Words by Jennifer BrownRelease Date: May 21, 2013Publisher: Little Brown Books For Young ReadersAge Group: Young Adult Pages: 288 Summary: Ashleigh's boyfriend, Kaleb, is about to leave for college, and Ashleigh is worried that he'll forget about her while he's away. So at a legendary end-of-summer pool party, Ashleigh's friends suggest she text him a picture of herself -- sans swimsuit -- to take with him. Before she can talk herself out of it, Ashleigh strides off to the bathroom, snaps a photo in the full-length mirror, and hits "send." But when Kaleb and Ashleigh go through a bad breakup, Kaleb takes revenge by forwarding the text to his baseball team. Soon the photo has gone viral, attracting the attention of the school board, the local police, and the media. As her friends and family try to distance themselves from the scandal, Ashleigh feels completely alone -- until she meets Mack while serving her court-ordered community service. Not only does Mack offer a fresh chance at friendship, but he's the one person in town who received the text of Ashleigh's photo -- and didn't look. Acclaimed author Jennifer Brown brings readers a gripping novel about honesty and betrayal, redemption and friendship, attraction and integrity, as Ashleigh finds that while a picture may be worth a thousand words . . . it doesn't always tell the whole story.My Thoughts: I was so excited to read this one! I love Brown’s books and am always excited to see her release more!We are introduced to Ashleigh who is in high school. She likes to run, has a great mom and dad, and has an amazing boyfriend named Kaleb. She has a best friend, and a group of friends that make everything fun. Her life is pretty good.One day at a party, a pool party, she decides she wants to send Kaleb a picture so he won’t forget her. He’s going off to college real soon. Yes, it is that kind of picture. So she gets over her nerves, and snaps away and sends it via text message. Full frontal, naked. Of course he’s thrilled about it. Until he actually goes off to college and realizes he’s just not into the way things are anymore and wants a change. In the process he really hurts her, things are said, and he ends up forwarding the picture on. Many many people see it. Ashleigh is in a lot of trouble. Not just with her friends and the general public, but with her parents and the police as well. Everyone is mean to her. Everyone harasses her. Her parents are upset with her. Her parents jobs are on the line. Her whole life goes from great to horrible in a matter of seconds really. She gets sentenced to community service and we see what she has to go through. We get to experience what that is like. She also meets a few new people there, one of which is Mack. Mack was such a wonderful character and I loved learning more about him and his past. For me, he was the bright light in this dark tunnel. I loved the interactions between Ashleigh and Mack. I loved this book so hard! It was such a serious topic and crazy but it was explained perfectly. This is real life, it could actually happened and has many times.Brown always takes these serious subjects and expands on them and really makes you take a deeper look and really think about it.I have to say this is probably my favorite book up to date by Brown. But all of her books are awesome.Overall: AMAZING! Loved it! Even though at times it was hard for Ashleigh, I enjoyed reading her story and what she had to overcome. Great story. Cover: I really like it too. It would draw me in at the bookstore. Enough to pick it up and take it home with me to read. What I'd Give It:

Like this Small Cool 2013 contest entry? Favorite it below! Name: Jennifer Location: San Francisco, CA Square Feet: 550 Division: Tiny What I Love About My Small Home: It's our cozy little love shack. Our apartment is decorated and filled with things that are equally loved by both of us. And because of its smaller size, The Cozy Shack makes us curate our lives. if we find something we love and bring it home, we have to get rid of something else to accommodate it. More

Rona Newton-John, the older sister of Olivia Newton-John, has lost her battle with brain cancer. 70-year old Rona was married to Grease star Jeff Conaway from 1980 to 1985. Jeff played Kenickie in Grease. He died in 2011. They have a son, racing car driver Emerson. After her marriage to Jeff she married Brian Goldsmith. Chantoozies star Tottie Goldsmith is her daughter. Rona’s condition turned bad in April causing her sister Olivia to cancel her upcoming dates in Las Vegas. “As a cancer ‘thriver’ myself, as many people are, I am very aware of the importance of love, support and family during this journey she is about to begin,” Olivia said in a statement last month. “I want to thank everyone in advance for respecting our privacy during this difficult time.” Rona had many acting roles including appearances on The Benny Hill Show and the British television series Gerry Anderson’s UFO. In 1972 Olivia and Rona recorded the duet together Just Us Two. Rona and Olivia’s grandfather is Max Born, the Nobel prize-winner. Rona was diagnosed with brain cancer in last month, April 2013.

As the slightly dodgy-seeming but hey-sure-we’ll-trust-it website Cliff View Pilot (via VladTV) reports, the sons of Sugar Hill Records co-founders Sylvia and Joe Robinson have been found guilty of tax evasion. So many people getting screwed by the IRS lately — we’re gonna have to start paying those things, too! Two sons of the Sugar Hill Records co-founders Sylvia and Joe Robinson were sentenced today to 400 hours of community service and three months house arrest for failing to file federal tax returns for several years, which prosecutors said cost the government nearly $1.3 million they should have paid on royalties from recordings by the Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Treacherous Three and others. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Falk fined 47-year-old Leland Robinson $8,000 and his 51-year-old brother, Joseph Robinson Jr., $16,000. A third brother, 42-year-old Rhondo Robinson — also of Englewood — has yet to be sentenced. Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.

Theatrical trailer for Walking with Dinosaurs. For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Walking with Dinsaurs is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art, photo-real 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for the ages. Based on the massively successful TV series and live show, which has grossed more than $250 million in box office worldwide. Directed by Neil Nightingale, Pierre De Lespinios and written by John Collee Filed Under: Walking with Dinosaurs Tags: 20th Century Fox, Action, Adventure, CG Animation, Charlie Rowe

During the two-weeks festival by Intakt Records at John Zorn’s club The Stone in New York’s East Village, Elliott Sharp (guitar), Melvin Gibb (bass) and Lucas Niggli (drums) performed for the first time. Three musicians with diverse backgrounds and biographies, but a very clear common goal: instant composing with hypertension, where Elliott Sharp’s blues, Melvin Gibb’s funk and Lucas Niggli’s drive found perfectly together to celebrate an unique music with no borders, lots of colours and massiv energy. On the very day after the three musicians went for to a brooklyn-studio and recorded the CD Crossing the Waters. Excursions in the adventurous tonal landscapes based on blues, rock and free music. 320 kbps | 126 MB | UL | CL | MC 1. Kunimasu Now (7:03) 2. Flow Fever (9:58) 3. Waving High (4:18) 4. Aquaphilia (7:44) 5. Transatlantic Tunnel (6:16) 6. Kayak (11:47) 7. Forellen (8:56)

The biggest stars in music lit up the stage of Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena for the Billboard Music Awards. But no one beamed brighter than...