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The Beginner’s Guide to Getting Into Tennis
By John A. Paradiso
I Lead a Run Club at My Bar. Here’s What I Wear.
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I Lead a Run Club at My Bar. Here’s What I Wear.

We road-tested the best casual running gear to wear—solo, with friends, or at the brewery post-jog.

By John A. Paradiso
Hit the Court in Style With the Best Tennis Gear from Nike
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Hit the Court in Style With the Best Tennis Gear from Nike

Get in the spirit of the U.S. Open later this month with Nike’s best tennis apparel and equipment.

By John A. Paradiso
The Gear You Need to Get Started in Tennis, From Shoes to Rackets to Training Apps
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The Gear You Need to Get Started in Tennis, From Shoes to Rackets to Training Apps

As with any sport, getting into tennis has a learning curve. The right gear and training tools makes that curve a little shorter.

By Brett Braley
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Bomber & Company B-2 Dog Tag Nano Blade Pocket Knife

A few years ago, Bomber & Company released their original B-2 Nano Blade Tactical Pocket Knife, a blade that would raise almost half a million dollars in funding and go on to become one of the world's most successful pocket knives. Bomber is back with a complete redesign of that…

By Ben Dahl
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Nissan ProPilot Self-Driving Golf Ball

Nissan's new Skyline is equipped with various driving assistants, route-driving, high-precision map data and the ability to overtake, branch and take exits--a technology they called ProPilot 2.0. In order to show off what the technology is capable of, Nissan used it as the starting point to build... The ProPilot Golf…

By Ben Dahl
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JOOLA Infinity Table Tennis Training Robot

If your ping pong game needs more game, perhaps you need to train under the tutelage of someone who will spend more time sending you expert shots instead of just criticizing your grip, form, and tenacity. The JOOLA robot was created to do just that by providing a huge range…

By Amos Kwon
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Satisfy Running Belt

Long-distance running of more than a few miles requires hydration and oftentimes a bump of energy gel. Running belts meet that need, but most of them are too bulky and cumbersome to be practical. Now French label Satisfy has made a Spartan but truly useful running belt that packs what…

By Amos Kwon
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Spalding Is Recreating Their Original Basketball from More Than a Century Ago

Spalding is an American sporting goods company founded in the last quarter of the 1800s. The sport of Basketball was founded not too many years later at the end of the 1800s. Spalding founder A.G. Spalding produced the first basketball for official use in 1894, and the brand is celebrating…

By Ben Dahl
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