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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Two of Eddie Van Halen’s Guitars Are Going to Auction

Eddie Van Halen is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. In addition to an incredible legacy, the revolutionary guitar virtuoso also left behind two guitars that are set to head to auction later this year. The new dynamic duo of Julien's Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock 'N'…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sondors MadMods Customizable Mopeds

On the surface, the moped is either a motorcycle you can pedal or a bicycle with an engine strapped to it. Neither one of those options is bad, but few companies can pull off the combo as stylishly as what Sondors did with their new MadMods Customizable Mopeds. Based off…

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Reebok ‘Ghostbusters’ Ghost Smashers Sneakers

Reebok is continuing their recent trend of film-inspired collaboration sneakers this year. All it takes is one look to know these sneakers are straight out of Ghostbusters. In order to create the Reebok Ghostbusters Ghost Smashers Sneakers they started with the only silhouette that would work--the popular Alien Stomper Sneaker from that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Jim Beam Lineage Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Standard Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey is ubiquitous, although it's not top-shelf, by any means. Offerings such as Blanton's, Booker's, and Basil Hayden's, however, are part of the more premium stable from the Jim Beam Brand. Yet their first true luxury bourbon whiskey called Lineage marks a real milestone. The deep…

By Amos Kwon
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Inside Information: Sneakerheads

Ever since it was first released more than three decades ago, the Nike Air Max has been one of the most popular sneakers to ever wear the swoosh badge. Even though we've seen all the various iterations over the years--check out the documentary The Story of Air Max: 90 to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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