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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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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
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
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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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

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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The Warrior By Honey Play Box Is The Dyson Equivalent Of A Male Masturbator

Cards on the table, talking about solo-male-pleasure is probably something none of us is comfortable talking about--despite the fact we all do it on the regular. If you want an assisted release that's far superior to anything you'd experience by yourself, you need to check out the Wondrous Wank Warrior…

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How to Have Style Like a Wes Anderson Character

Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that Wes Anderson’s singular point-of-view has influenced the fashion world. With a penchant for looking retrospectively at American and European fashion through the decades, Anderson’s oeuvre is a compilation of styles that blend seamlessly into the pastel-colored worlds he creates in his films.…

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Vollebak’s Mars Hoodie is Out of This World

Vollebak's ability to mix function and high art into wearable garments is commendable. Their latest, the Mars Hoodie, is billed as "the most comfortable hoodie ever made" and we don't need the Perseverance Rover to show us that it's probably the truth. Vollebak built this hoodie with the prompt in…

By Brett Braley
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Aventon Level.2

Aventon makes some of the coolest e-bikes around, and they're now moving to the next level, quite appropriately known as Level.2. It promises a new torque sensor that makes electric assist more intuitive, quicker, and with a more natural feel. The flagship e-bike uses a real torque sensor that gauges…

By Amos Kwon
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Assouline’s Latest Book Tells of Louis Vuitton and Sports History

Assouline has always done a great job of highlighting the little-known bits of the world around us and their latest book, Louis Vuitton: Trophy Trunks is no different. This 222-page book highlights the haute maison as part of crowning legends across the sports world. From Rafael Nadal to the FIFA World…

By Brett Braley
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