Fanboy News! eBay Fraud Ring! Autograph Tumbles! Drake Gets Sued By Collector! Jon Stewarts Son Puts Dad’s Memorabilia Up For Auction! And More!
Ohhhh so much interesting stuff today!
First a 2 million dollar eBay autograph fraud ring has been exposed! Say wha? Fake autographs on eBay? Nooooo… How not to ask for a sports autograph! Doh! And Drake gets sued by an autograph collector!
Check it out below!
$2 million Ebay sports autograph fraud uncovered in the Valley
Assistant Mahoning County Prosecutor Martin Desmond tells 21 News that the four men convicted are only small players in an alleged enterprise involving phony autographs on sports memorabilia that cheated 25,000 people out of more than $2-million.
Little did Tinker Owens know the little boy he signed an autograph for would someday be OU’s starting quarterback
Tinker Owens hadn’t thought too much about the package he’d sent off over a decade ago.
Owens, Oklahoma’s All-American receiver in 1974 and ’75, was just trying to do a nice thing for a couple of young Sooners fans when he sent off a package to the Austin, Texas, area in 2005.The mailing included an autographed football and photos of both Owens and his brother, Steve, another Oklahoma legend.
AUTOGRAPH SEEKER SUES DRAKE
Mike Trout Talks Autographs And If He Minds If You Sell Them [VIDEO]
August 27, 2015 8:58 AM
JON STEWART NICKS SON’S JOHN CENA AUTOGRAPH TO FLOG ON EBAY ‘COS “DADDY’S RETIRED”
But before his official duties got under way, Jon – who, if his scruffy AF appearance is anything to go by, is loving not being professionally made-up every day – walked the corridors of Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center with his 11-year-old son Nathan.
"I'm gonna throw this right up on @ebay, OK?" – Jon Stewart with @JohnCena's autograph at @SummerSlam… #SummerSlam pic.twitter.com/LBr9rJCqix
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) August 23, 2015
How not to get an Usain Bolt autograph: Twitter reacts to Usain Bolt’s epic fall
Usain Bolt’s celebrations after completing a world championship sprint double came to a painful halt on Thursday after he was knocked over by a cameraman on an electric scooter.
The bizarre accident happened when the cameraman strayed too close to a barefoot Bolt as he posed for photos following his gold medal run in the 200 metres in Beijing.The local television journalist bumped into a fixed railing and went flying off backwards, shooting the scooter into Bolt’s legs from behind and sending the Jamaican crashing to the ground.