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Lifestyle
The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

Crack. Sip. Ahhhhhh.

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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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Featured Stories

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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Outdoors
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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Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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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Watches
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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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Watches
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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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YETI V Series Stainless Steel Cooler

The YETI Tundra is one of the best hard shell coolers on the market, and YETI Rambler Bottles are some of the best portable beverage containers out there. YETI took the cold-holding power of the Rambler and the innovative design of the Tundra cooler and combined them in their latest…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Whiskey: A Tasting Course’

In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks bestowed the name of uisce beatha--literally "water of life"--to whiskey. We weren't around back then, but we've had no problem treating the distilled spirit as such since then. If you've ever been on any distillery tours, spoken with any industry experts or spent…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
Even More SOG Tools Are Now Available in All Black

Any discussion about knives and multi-tools will most definitely involve the brand SOG because they've been involved in the production of some of the best EDC tools for over three decades. Whether you're talking keychain knives, the best multitools, everyday carry gifts or anything else tool or blade related, SOG has…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Now’s Your Chance to Own a 19th Century Sea Fort

For as long as we could remember, we've always dreamt of owning a secluded space we could call our own that was filled with all the necessities. As we've aged, that dream has evolved from batting cages and laser tag to whiskey bars and five-star dining, but the ultimate ideal…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Marshall Mini Fridge

A handful of years ago, one of everyone's favorite amp and speaker manufacturers--we're obviously talking about Marshall--released a perfectly sized dorm room and man cave mini-fridge. That release--the Marshall Fridge--would prove to be one of the brand's first forays into general consumer goods, and now, they're releasing a new version…

By Cooper Fleishman
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