The Milwaukee Bucks rookie guard, who skipped college ball by playing a year in Italy to satisfy the NBA age requirement, is all-of-a-sudden the talk of the league. Through nine games, the overall 10th pick in this year's draft is averaging 24.8 points a game, thanks in part to scoring 55 against the Golden State Warriors last Thursday.

In an attempt to meet the needs of its consumers, Topps has recently announced some changes that collectors will likely be glad to hear. Although the 2009 Topps T206 Baseball selling information solicited autographed cards featuring stickers, Topps is pleased to announce that 80 percent of the autographs in the product are signed on-card. Topps T206 (100th Anniversary Ed.) just shipped and guarantees two autographs and/or relics in every box.

Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera won their fifth World Championship together this year by besting Philadelphia in the Fall Classic. Now the two hurlers are joining forces with Upper Deck to sign autographs for the company’s 2010 Baseball releases. They reunite with their teammate and Upper Deck exclusive spokesman Derek Jeter on the company’s list of impressive championship baseball talent set to sign for Upper Deck in 2010.

GetFugu, Inc. (a mobile search tool), announced Nov. 19 that it has partnered with, Topps. Topps, the exclusive trading card of Major League Baseball, is using GetFugu’s “See It, Say It, Find It, Get It”, vision, voice and location recognition services to enhance the “Legends of the game” cards in 2009 Topps Baseball Series 1, Series 2 and Updates and Highlights.

Upper Deck Company announced its latest promotional sports program – “Hockey Card Heaven” – which is designed to inspire shop owners in Canada to host more in-store events to engage kids in the art of card collecting and to create excitement surrounding this year’s top-notch rookie class. The shops that run the most creative promotions that translate to increased sales, those that merchandise new hockey cards the best ways possible and the ones that orchestrate the most lucrative in-store events will all be in the running for great prizes.

A circa-1933 game-used home jersey worn by the New York Yankees’ immortal Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig, tops an all-star lineup of sports apparel, equipment and memorabilia in Grey Flannel’s Holiday Auction, with absentee and Internet bids accepted from Nov. 16 through Dec. 9.

It has been a wild season in sports with Brett Favre unretiring again and going to the Packers’ biggest rival, the Penguins wild ride to their Stanley Cup victory and another amazing season for baseball’s best hitter, Albert Pujols. With that in mind, we’re going to take a look back at some of the top performers and their impact in the sports card market.

It’s been a tough year financially for a lot of hobbyists, but the good news is that it doesn’t have to be lean times under the Christmas tree. And as we all know, when it comes to eBay, the thrill of chasing bargains can be almost as fun as watching the person open his or her present on Dec. 25.

Michael Vick is easily identifiable as one of the most tantalizing athletes in professional sports. Drafted with the No. 1 pick in 2001, he was a three-time Pro Bowler and was once recognized as the premier quarterback in the National Football League with the Atlanta Falcons. In 2006 he rushed for 1,039 yards, the most by a quarterback in a single season in NFL history.

Very exciting news from our friends at McFarlane: Todd McFarlane has announced a new variation program called the McFarlane Collector Level. McFarlane reports the following: