Mar 10th, 2010 · An antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA seeks a potential payday for athletes who have been merchandised. The case over the use of players' likenesses in video games and memorabilia may change the essence of the NCAA. What if college players were no longer seen as amateurs?
Dec 8th, 2009 · In his article Tiger for Sale, on the Daily Beast, Duff McDonald explores the impact the Woods scandal is having on the golf champion's memorabilia market and on his merchandise in toy stores. McDonald says Woods action figures at some retailers were selling at 33 percent less than their regular price.
Oct 13th, 2009 · You, too, could own just a little bit of the King. A Chicago auction house is selling what it claims to be Elvis Presley's hair. You could also buy some of his sweat-stained scarves and other memorabilia.
Sep 16th, 2009 · Pro-Israel bloggers suggest that a military analyst for Human Rights Watch shows an anti-Jewish bias by collecting German military memorabilia from the Nazi era. The human-rights group suspended the analyst but says it stands behind his work, including reporting on human-rights violations by the Israeli government.
Sep 4th, 2009 · Simpson is serving nine to 33 years for kidnapping and robbing two sports memorabilia dealers in September 2007. He asked to be let out of the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada while he appeals, but the court said he hadn't met the "heavy burden" required to be allowed to post bail.
Jul 21st, 2009 · The Austrian creator of Pez dispensers is suing a small museum in Northern California that displays a huge Pez snowman outside its doors. The museum is full of Pez-related material, but the company claims trademark infringement, saying: "It's only Pez if we say it's Pez."
Jul 3rd, 2009 · Since Michael Jackson died last week, his trading cards, old albums and autographs are selling for huge amounts of money. A letter Michael Jackson wrote to an unknown "Greg" sold for $20,000, and an album signed by all of the Jackson 5 sold for $27,000.
Jun 1st, 2009 · The footballs, jerseys and framed photographs that put O.J. Simpson in a Nevada prison are in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and likely headed for the auction block, an attorney for longtime Simpson nemesis Fred Goldman said Monday.