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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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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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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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Feeling the Burn

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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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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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

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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series

Hail the return of Merc-AMG's Black Series. As great as the SLS was to drive, the new and future king is the 720 horsepower Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. The 4.0-liter twin-turbo flat-plane crank V8 qualifies as the brand's most powerful AMG V8, ever, moving this track-hungry GT to 62 mph…

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Royal Enfield Factory Customs MJR Roach Motorcycle

There are plenty of great bike shops out there taking stock motorcycles and turning them into rolling works of art. This is particularly true when it comes to Royal Enfield because we've seen their bikes turned into phenomenal pieces from the likes of Bandit9, J&D Custom Co. and Thrive, among others.…

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‘Adidas vs Puma – The Family Argument That Gave Rise to Sports Marketing’

For most of us, sibling rivalry isn't something we think much about once everyone in the family becomes an adult. But there are a few specific cases where family feuds have led to the splitting of multinational organizations into individual entities greater than the sum of their parts. One such…

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Gateway Bronco Is Going to Start Building F-Series Trucks

When it comes to vintage restomod Broncos, few shops do it as well as Gateway Bronco. Whether you're talking about their 1972 Restomod Fuelie, 1974 Modern Day Warrior or any of the other Broncos they've built, each vehicle that comes out of their shop in Illinois is expertly restored, kitted out…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Olson Form Desk Accessories

Despite the fact most of us spend the majority of our work time in front of a screen clickety-clacking our way to productivity, there are a lot of other pieces of desktop hardware that make work life easier. We're talking about phone stands, business card holders, pens, paper clips letter…

By Cooper Fleishman
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