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The second 18-card installment of Topps/Wal-Mart cards will be available when Series 2 blaster boxes go on sale. The Series release date is June 14, but it may take a few days for the product to actually make it to store shelves.
Once again the cards will be in three-card cello packs available exclusively in 2006 Topps baseball blaster boxes sold at Wal-Mart stores. The cards feature Hall of Famers and today’s stars in the designs of Topps cards issued over the years.

Collecting cards is a great hobby. When you can add to your collection and help a good cause, it’s that much better.
Well, now’s the time to step up to the plate and help folks doing the research to find a cure for prostate cancer.
Each year around Father’s Day the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) raises money for research by securing pledges for its Home Run Challenge.
It’s a pretty simply proposition. You pledge money and then donate based on the number of homers slugged during 60 selected Major league baseball games from June 7 through Father’s Day, June 18.

What is that they say, yesterday I couldn’t spell blogger and now I are one? Then again Microsoft Word’s dictionary doesn’t recognize blog either.
Hard to believe a journalist who started out inhaling toxic lead fumes in a composing room backshop and learning how to read type upside down and backward (a handy skill when interviewing someone who has typed memos on the desk), would eventually end up blogging. But here I am.

Choices, choices, choices.

When you're a sports fan this time of year, you've always got choices to make.

The weather is nicer, the sun stays up longer, and the running trails and tennis courts and basketball hoops become more enticing.

Then again, becoming a couch potato is awfully beckoning, too.

The NBA and NHL are holding their playoffs simultaneously. There are always major-league baseball games on. And the choices get harder in May when the infernal networks wind up all of their popular shows with fresh episodes and cliffhangers during the sweeps.

Duke University cancelled its men's lacrosse season and accepted the resignation of the team's coach.

Let's hope the administrators at Duke know what they are doing. Because on the surface, it sure looks like they overreacted.

In case you missed it, the Duke lacrosse team held an off-campus party on March 13, and hired two women to, um, entertain them. OK, the ladies were exotic dancers. And they were black.