ESPN was barely a blip on the sports radar screen. Home computers were still more than a decade away. No blogs. No YouTube. No college hoops on TV every night. Whatever hype surrounded the 1979 NCAA Championship game was largely because the country had read about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in their daily newspapers or issues of The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated or … [Read more...]
Topps Pays Quarterly Dividends; Contacts Shareholders
The Topps company has announced it's quarterly dividend to shareholders (it ain't much) and wrote them all on bended knee, urging them to fly the bird at the group trying to take control of the card maker. … [Read more...]