Ricky Colton’s influencer column — dry commentary on the sports card creator scene
Back in 2025, Darren Rovell published another “sports card bubble could burst” piece. The evidence, at the time, was a Jay Cutler card hitting $12,000 on eBay. The headline on cllct reads “Bubble could soon burst for lower-end cards.” It was, roughly, the sixth or seventh time he had written this piece since 2022. Darren…
Mr. Wonderful is in the hobby now. Whether the hobby wanted him is a separate question. In August 2025, Kevin O’Leary co-purchased the Jordan-Kobe dual Logoman for $12.93 million — the most expensive sports card ever sold at auction. Then he had Tiffany & Co. encase it in 101 carats of diamonds, 10 carats of…