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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

Pack your bags...

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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Barnes & Noble Nook 10″ HD Tablet

Even if you forced us to write a list of our favorite tablets at gunpoint, we'd be hard-pressed to put the Barnes & Noble Nook on that list--even if you asked us to do it a few year's ago when bookstores were still relevant. Now, after the current pandemic and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
“Not Fried Chicken” Ice Cream

Chef Cynthia Wong is a six-time finalist for the James Beard Awards' Outstanding Pastry Chef that has turned her attention to the wide world of ice cream desserts with Life Raft Treats, South Carolina's only chef-driven ice cream truck. Every one of Wong's delicious ice cream treats is made with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Weber Workshops Moulin Salt Mill Is Endorsed by Michelin Star Chefs

When we were first introduced to the sheer brilliance, attention to detail and spare-no-expense construction that comes out of the Weber Workshops shop, it was with their Skunkworks meets mini-telescope Onyx EG-1 Coffee Grinder. That tradition of absurd detail and performance grinding continued into the Moulin Pepper Mill and now,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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2022 Hyundai Staria Multi-Purpose Vehicle

Hyundai recently pulled the wraps off the 2022 Hyundai Staria Multi-Purpose Vehicle, their latest people mover that was designed to replace the likes of the Starex, iMax and all their other previous minivans. While we were always the people who said "we'll never be caught dead in a minivan," that's changing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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drift Will Change the Way Your Car Smells for the Better

Modern car air fresheners suck--unless you're using drift. Made in the USA, drift is a fantastic smelling wood air freshener that magnetically attaches to your car visor. Each freshener is made from sustainably sourced cedarwood and soaked in essential and fragrant oils to deliver real scents--without harmful chemicals like phthalates,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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