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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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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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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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‘The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife’

There are quite a few different things we'd like to revisit from our childhood, but chief among them is our adolescent love of cracking open fresh wax packs of baseball cards. There's just something about a newly opened collection of fifteen cardboard ball players and a stick of bubblegum that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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FUEL Motorcycles “Rally Raid” Jacket

Created for far more than just racy looks, the Rally Raid Jacket was purposefully designed for long rides through Africa. The team at FUEL are avid riders and intentionally used a breathable cotton/polyamide shell that's water-resistant, too. Inside there's additional inclement weather protection thanks to a waterproof membrane and a…

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Zenith DEFY 21 Land Rover Edition Wristwatch

The long-awaited return of the legendary Land Rover Defender SUV brings modern tech, materials, and construction to an off-roading icon. Now, the brand has commissioned Swiss watchmaker Zenith to build a watch to celebrate the Defender. The titanium timepiece gets treated in a matte-finish micro-blasted coating for its tonneau case…

By Amos Kwon
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Tesla Cybertruck Bulletproof Tee

With all his rockets and cars and transportation inventions, there's no denying the fact that Elon Musk is a straight up genius. He's also way ahead of the curve when it comes to marketing and owning failure. He sold a twenty dollar hardware store flamethrower for ten times the price…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Damon Motorcycles Hypersport Electric Superbike

When does an electric motorcycle look like a gas-powered track rocket? When it's built by Damon for the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. The very yellow and very fast superbike uses none other than Blackberry’s QNX operating system to help the motorcycle utilize radar, cameras, and sensors to manage the road…

By Amos Kwon
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