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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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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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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)

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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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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

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This Honey Is Barrel-aged and Packaged Like Your Favorite Whiskey

Where does the beautiful color, flavor and burn of whiskey come from? The incredibly long barrel-aging process with charred oak barrels that draws out the sugars, flavors, and colors of the wood the liquid is aged in. Which brings us to Salt & Lantern Barrel-Aged Honey. As the name implies,…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Seavees First-Ever 100% Waterproof Boot is Finally Here

The new Bolinas Offshore Boots from Seavees  is perfect for braving the elements and lends both function and fashion to your wardrobe.   These vegan, double gore pull-on rubber rainboots are made from matte-finished waterproof natural rubber and they are perfect for your daily commute in the rain and are…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Fashion
Tag Heuer Aquaracer Professional 200

Tag Heuer launched a much-lauded new Aquaracer dive watch series last year, and 2022 kicks off with a new, smaller version known as the Aquaracer Professional 200. It's downsized from 43mm to 40mm, so it should be accommodating for smaller wrists and in line with the trend of smaller diameter…

By Amos Kwon
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Lexon Tykho 3 FM Radio & Bluetooth Speaker

If we're being completely honest, we're not even sure how many Bluetooth speakers we have lying around at this point because, while they all do their jobs, none of them are all that memorable. That changes with the Lexon Tykho 3 FM Radio & Bluetooth Speaker you see here. With…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Keep Your EDC Knives Organized with the Holme & Hadfield Knife Deck

If you take your EDC collection serious, invest in some proper storage. Holme & Hadfield craft elegant storage solutions for watches, knives, and EDC gear. And the H&H Knife Deck is perfect for the pocket knife enthusiast. It features four external pocket knife holders with functionally shaped grooves to properly…

By John A. Paradiso
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