Welcome to Athlon Sports, this blog discusses the massive PSA grading backlog 2026 crisis gripping the trading card hobby. Unprecedented submission queues hit historic peaks, shifting how collectors ...

Like the four Cs of a diamond, card grades also work from a four-criteria system. The key determinants that make up a card’s grade are: Corners, Centering, Edges, and Surface. Beckett (BGS) is a card ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2026, baseball card grading sits at the heart of a booming collectables market that values authenticated and slabbed cards far ...

A total of 2.95 million cards were graded across the major grading players in May. Although that's technically down 5% from April, when you look at the data from a per-business-day basis, grading ...

PSA's struggle to keep up with card grading demand carried over to the National Sports Collectors Convention last week. Brooks Peck Trading card grading service Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) ...

Collectors reacted strongly when the PSA grading scandal of 2026 broke in December 2025. A Pokémon collector submitted around 30 identical modern cards that mostly returned as PSA 9 grades. He ...

The restored T206 Honus Wagner card recently graded by CGC. Photo courtesy of CGC Andy Broome wishes he could take credit for tracking down three of the most recognizable sports cards in the history ...

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We started CardGrade because the turnaround time and cost of professional grading creates a real barrier for collectors who want to make informed decisions about their cards.” — Jamie Budesky, Founder ...