Southern Sass: Is John McEnroe the Part Shia LaBeouf Was Born to Play?

5.24.2017

Is John McEnroe the Part Shia LaBeouf Was Born to Play?

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05/24/17

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FACT #1

Catching Two Tennis Biopics in Theaters Sounds, Well, a Bit Excessive

But should you care to see one, we pegged the forthcoming tennis films Battle of the Sexes and Borg/McEnroe against each other, based entirely on their trailers. LaBeouf as John McEnroe or '70s shenanigans and Steve Carell doing accents: the choice is entirely yours.

FACT #2

Before the Singularity: Your Short Game

Arccos Caddie is the first-and-only golf platform to harness the power of artificial intelligence as a means of helping you decide on the best strategy off the tee and on the fairway. The best part: it lives right inside your phone.

FACT #3

Someone's at Your Door. And They've Got Beer.

Well, they are as long as you signed up for a CraftX membership. Then a someone will appear every month with two six-packs of previously unobtainable beer from two of our nation's indie breweries. It's your patriotic duty to drink them.

FACT #4

You're Riding South America's First Luxury Sleeper Train Through the Andes

Can you possibly envision a better way to experience the Peruvian Andes than aboard South America's first luxury sleeper train, complete with a piano bar, a spa and alpaca tortellini? Yeah, we also had trouble.

FACT #5

Someone on The Bachelorette Is Bound to Get Friend-Zoned

The latest season of The Bachelorette premiered on Monday night. Just prior, our two resident Bachelor experts made some very specific predictions, regarding which suitors were most likely to get friend zoned or form a bromance. Some were not right. But others are still not wrong...

FACT #6

These Polos Are Coming to Your Sartorial Rescue

With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, it's very possible that a) you'll need to look good on the golf course; and b) you'll need to look good off the golf course, at one barbecue or another. Hence, this pictorial list of very dapper polos.