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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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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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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

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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

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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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2024 Toyota Grand Highlander

As good as the current Toyota Highlander is, there was room for, well, more room. Since the brand pretty much kept the back two rows in the Highlander the same size as the previous generation, some buyers called foul. The answer has arrived in the form of the Grand Highlander.…

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Bring Cold Therapy to Your Yard With This Cold Plunge Tub

If you haven't yet experienced the myriad benefits of a cold plunge, you don't know what you're missing. From elevated energy levels and boosted recovery, to increased performance and improved circulation, there are a lot of real benefits to throwing yourself into a freezing bath on the regular. As it…

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Bowlus Heritage Edition

Bowlus turns trailer camping into an art form, and it just introduced its more affordable model. It's quite a bit less than the quarter-mil+ Terra Firma, but it still has that unmistakable tapered Bowlus look. The Heritage Edition sleeps four and has a king-size bed in a suite, dinette that…

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The Best Classic Movies on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now

Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight. Schindler’s List. Each of these films enjoy a spot in film’s pantheon, and qualify as modern classics. This will inevitably make more than a few folks who grew up in these movies’ eras wither on the spot. For them, “classic” refers to films made before…

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Legendary Supercar Designer Frank Stephenson Just Created His First Watch

There’s a lot of overlap between car guys and watch guys. A new Szanto Icon watch from Time Concepts takes the overlap into high gear by tapping a supercar designer legend: Frank Stephenson, who was the director of design at brands like Ferrari, McLaren, Maserati, and Fiat, and has designed…

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