There are some pretty cool auctions that are live or coming up this weekend.

Steiner Sports is hosting auctions that end every day in March, with some pretty cool themes. Check them out at http://auction.steinersports.com. For instance, if you're into Notre Dame or Syracuse collectibles, they are offering Luck of the Irish and Syracuse Auction categories. Lots include signed photos, jerseys and signed helmets.

Steiner has exclusive relationships with a lot of schools, teams and athletes, making for some unique pieces. “We’re not just putting lots up like it’s Hallmark,” Steve Costello at Steiner said. “We’ve put a lot of thought into it. People are able to get that buy of a lifetime.”

Look for some cool "prototypes," too. Steiner is taking some of its pieces, say Joe Namath signed mini helmets, pairing them up with, say, a Don Maynard signed mini helmet, and making a framed shadow box display that can't be found anywhere else and offered at auction before similar products are sold on the site.

Plus, they have collectibles starting with $1 bids. How cool is that these days?

Hunt Auctions
This weekend, March 6-7, Hunt Auctions will conduct its live event in Pennsylvania. The 1,164-lot auction is highlighted by numerous private collections. David Hunt expects the growing interest in Negro League material will fuel demand for the private collection of J. Leonard Mitchell, an outfielder with the Negro Leagues in the 1920s.

“This is a pretty special group. You just don’t find intact archives, if you will, like this,” Hunt said. “Given the rarity of that material in its original form, there’s just not that much of it surviving anywhere, let alone finding an intact group that has never been available to the public is pretty exciting.”

For more highlights from this sale, including many more private collections, visit www.huntauctions.com.