Does anyone here remember CTA? About 25 years ago CTA tried to come into the grading game. I actually really like their slabs. They also came with a very detailed grade report looking at every quadrant of the front in the back of the card.

The rally towel is the collectable, but the memories of being in the second row to watch my team win their first national championship, an undefeated season, the Heisman winner and coach of the year was unparalleled. And to run the gauntlet and win on enemy turf made it even better. What a game! The biggest turnaround in sports history. I never would have thought it could happen in my lifetime! Hoo-hoo-hoo-Hoosiers!

In the Caribbean and gulf, although beautiful, Lion fish are an invasive species and destroy reef ecosystems. But the are beautiful, and poisonous, and tasty if you know how to spear them and cook them up! This is an amazing limited screen-print by the fantastic French street artist Ardif.

Stunning card, and one of my best Jermaine O’Neal cards. He’s borderline NBA HOF material but I don’t think he makes it in. One of the last few guys to successfully jump from high school straight to the NBA. He developed in Portland before finding all-star caliber success in Indiana and with the Celtics. Great overall big man with soft hands and a nice touch!

While this card does not have a lot of intrinsic value, it has value to me. As an Indiana University graduate, I went to a lot of football games in the early to mid 1990s. I was born and raised in Indiana and have a long-standing relationship with Indiana sports. What has happened over the past two years is not something I ever expected to happen in my entire lifetime. Indiana has never been a football school and has been long overshadowed in the Big Ten.A turn around like this in the last two years is unheard of in sports at any level, really. It’s been so exciting to watch IU have this kind of turnaround… It’s like watching a Disney movie. Let’s see if Mendoza and the Hoosiers can cap off a perfect season with a victory against Miami on Monday night! Go Hoosiers!