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After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.

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Tom Green's film debut casts him as a perpetual college student narrating the raucous odyssey of four university buddies as they make their way from Ithaca, N.Y., to Austin. Their goal: retrieve an illicit video, which was mailed by mistake. Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo, DJ Qualls, Rachel Blanchard.

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Road Trip is a U.S. comedy film that was written by Scot Armstrong and Todd Phillips, who also directed. The movie stars Breckin Meyer as Josh Parker, Amy Smart as Beth Wagner, Seann William Scott as E.L., Paulo Costanzo as Rubin Carver and DJ Qualls as Kyle Edwards. Josh and Tiffany are high school sweathearts who have been long-time friends. They have to deal with a long distance relationship once Josh is enrolled at Ithaca and Tiffany is to attend the University of Austin. However, they vow to remain true to each other.

Due to some miscommunication, Josh is unaware that Tiffany has had a death in her family so when she doesn’t call, he is worried that she is seeing someone else. He begins to make a daily video blog for her.

During a party, E.L. holds an auction for girls. Josh wins a bid for $26 and after he dances with Beth, they have sex. Beth records their sex with the same recorder that Josh has been using for his video blogs for Tiffany. Not realizing this, Josh asks Rubin to mail the blog tape to Tiffany prior to leaving for class.

Josh confesses to his friends that he and Beth had sex. His friends want proof. Josh tries to play the tape but then realizes that Rubin has sent the tape to Tiffany. Then Josh gets a voicemail from Tiffany telling him that she didn’t call because her grandfather died. In a panic, Josh plans a road trip to retrieve the tape since he doesn’t have the money for a plane ticket.

He and the guys are on the road for days, finally reaching Austin. When they get to Tiffany's dorm, Josh gets hold of the tape. After an altercation with Kyle, Josh and Tiffany wind up watching the tape, which only turns out to have one of his friends acting goofy on it.

However, Josh and Tiffany decide it is best to break up since they are so far from each other and it is impractical to have a relationship. After Josh passes his class, he and Beth hook up and make more videos together.

Road Trip is a 2000 comedy with a runtime of 1 hour and 33 minutes. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.5 and a MetaScore of 55.

• Genres Comedy Adventure
• Cast Breckin Meyer Seann William Scott Amy Smart
• Release Date 2000
• MPAA Rating R
• Runtime 1 hr 33 min
• Language English
• IMDB Rating 6.5   (177,070)
• Metascore 55

  R | comedy | 1 HR 34 MIN | 2000

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3 things to watch as Mariners gear up for season’s toughest road trip yet

While manager Scott Servais spent much of the past homestand trying to educate fans about how improved the Oakland A’s were as a team and how good the Kansas City Royals have been this season, he won’t have to do that with the next two teams on the Mariners’ schedule.

The Mariners start a 10-game, three-city road trip with the first two series vs. the Orioles (27-14) and Yankees (30-15). Baltimore’s roster features the largest collection of young and exciting talent in Major League Baseball while New York now has the best record in the American League following a dominant three-game sweep of the Twins, who scored one run in those losses.  

This will be the strongest stretch of opponents the Mariners will have faced thus far in the 2024 season.

It starts with three games at Camden Yards vs. the Orioles. Here are a few things to watch in the series and the road trip, which also includes a three-game series vs. the much-improved Nationals to close it out.

Can the Mariners’ pitching slow down the best offense in the American League?

The Orioles lead the AL in runs per game (4.95), home runs (64), slugging percentage (.442) and are second in on-base plus slugging percentage (.746).

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In 14 games in May, the Mariners have a .248/.313/.416 slash line with 59 runs scored, 17 doubles, two triples, 18 homers, 36 walks and 142 strikeouts. The production is much better. The strikeouts, well, they are still prevalent and the homers are coming at a better rate.

The emergence of Luke Raley as a major contributor has been a plus. He has a .328/.377/.516 slash line over his last 22 games with a double, triple, three homers and 10 RBI; and the continued success of Josh Rojas, who has a .330/.395/.482 slash line with four two doubles, triples, three homers and nine RBI this season, has helped.

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Go Inside Malia White's Messy Road Trip with a Mystery Guy: "Living the Van Life"

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Below Deck Mediterranean   alum  Malia White  has been keeping busy these days . When she's not working hard on a charter, she's out there seeing the world in other ways. Malia recently traded in a boat for "living the van life" as she embarked on a road trip along the coast of Scotland with a mystery male companion by her side.

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Malia took to her Instagram Story on May 13 and May 14, where she posted a series of photos and videos while on the road in Scotland. The content taken from the trip shows that being in  such  close quarters can get a little messy, but it's nothing that the seasoned yachtie  can't handle — even though she is traveling by land and not sea this time around.

Malia White shares photos from her trip around Scotland

In a video she shared with her fans, Malia can be seen filming her friend (perhaps romantic interest?) as he drives along the scenic Scottish coast and dodges a biker on the road ahead of them. In another, Malia films a bunch of spilled powder in the car as the man laughs in the background and briefly looks into the camera. Once the spill was cleaned up, Malia posted a boomerang of her preparing to take a shower on the coast in a bathing suit and waterproof boots. 

While it might not be  too  glamorous, it looks absolutely beautiful. Malia posted a photo of their car parked alongside the water, with the cliffs in the distance. In another, she shared a photo of her "best coffee find yet" while tagging the location as Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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In the late 1920s, an ambitious young Stanford grad named Wally Byam found himself in booming Los Angeles, far from the rural Oregon of his youth, where he and his family had been happy, and frequent, campers. Byam, a magazine publisher, couldn’t wait to ditch his suit and tie to go camping on days off, but his wife proved less enthusiastic about sleeping on the dewy ground. He devised a compromise, elevating their tent on a wooden platform that sat atop the chassis from an old Ford Model T; the Byams’ own car then towed the tent-laden contraption. “I guess we looked like an itinerant patent-medicine show,” he’d later tell a reporter. “But it worked.”

So Byam kept tinkering, building a teardrop-shaped trailer out of plywood as a sturdier substitute for the tent, with room for an icebox and a kerosene cooking stove. When the couple began pulling this trailer with their Dodge, the setup continued to draw considerable attention on the road—and Byam, ever the entrepreneur, saw an opportunity amid all that gawking. Familiar with the power of print, he took out magazine ads that sold blueprints for do-it-yourself trailers. The timing worked out well, as his own publishing business began drying up after the 1929 stock market crash, and when a neighbor asked Byam to build him a camper, the inventor went one step further, ditching backyard tinkering to open a small factory in Culver City, California, in 1931. The result was a triumph of design and marketing, and it helped create the very idea of the modern road trip.

Byam gave his trailers the name Airstream, boasting they rode as smoothly as “a stream of air” and sold more than 1,000 by the spring of 1932. In early 1936, after further experimentation, he pivoted from plywood to selling the aluminum-clad Airstream Clipper. Starting at $1,200—a bit under $27,000 in today’s money, and more than twice the price of its predecessors—it was a luxury trailer with room for four people to sleep and dine. It even boasted onboard water tanks that paired well with the Clipper’s futuristic metallic sheen, riveted aluminum shell and streamlined, aerodynamic shape with gentler curves than previous models. The design cannily evoked the glamour of aviation—as did the name, nodding to Pan American World Airways’ celebrated new China Clipper plane. Soon, Byam’s advertisements were trading on the same association: “An airplane without wings,” a 1937 newspaper ad proclaimed the Clipper. “Luxurious in the extreme.”

The company soon had 75 employees working 18 hours per day to meet demand, touting sales to Hollywood stars and even the president of Mexico. Production came to a halt during World War II, when aluminum restrictions led Byam to close his shop and begin working at a plant making actual aircraft for the war effort. But in the postwar boom, Airstream saw its true heyday, as middle-class Americans took to the road, many directly inspired by Byam and his creation.

“Your home is wherever your wheels come to a stop,” wrote Byam in Fifth Avenue on Wheels , a 1953 road-trip guide that emphasized the Manhattan-worthy luxury that Airstream offered, including such pacifying comforts as shock absorbers and modern stoves, which Byam cheerfully extolled throughout the volume.

Byam remained a tireless tinkerer, user and promoter of his own product, even leading a series of Airstream caravans around the world. These began with a 1951 drive south from the U.S.-Mexico border to Managua, Nicaragua, where they were heartily greeted by the country’s president. The more globe-trotting caravaners arranged to load their Airstreams onto cargo ships and crossed the ocean for Europe and beyond, sometimes posing the trailers near the Pyramids of Giza and near Moscow’s Red Square. The groups had a tradition of camping in concentric circles—a cross between an Old West wagon formation and a suburban subdivision, often complete with pink plastic lawn flamingos—and wore matching blue berets that suggested a rolling fraternal lodge. From a 1956 trip that saw travelers ditch trailers for gondolas in Venice to a Byam-led voyage that arrived in Cairo in 1960, stories with vivid photo spreads of gleaming, American-made Airstreams alongside ancient wonders appeared in magazines like Life and National Geographic .

Byam died in 1962, but Airstreams sold steadily throughout the 1960s, as improvements in such features as trailer toilets—designed by avid Airstream traveler (and future Porta Potti inventor) Frank Sargent—allowed travelers to explore the growing interstate highway system and to skip motels without sacrificing hygiene. A modified Airstream even served as temporary home to the Apollo 11 astronauts upon their return from the moon, keeping them comfortable—and quarantined—until certified free from potential lunar germs.

But in the 1970s and ’80s, rising gas prices and growing air travel put a major damper on sales. The company tried to diversify with mixed success, introducing lower-priced trailers and even, in 1981, an Airstream funeral coach. (The idea was for mourners to ride together alongside the casket, in lieu of a multi-car funeral procession.) Still, the caravans kept rolling, flamboyantly so: Sargent organized one headline-grabbing trip to China in 1985. And the optimistic 1990s saw an Airstream resurgence, as nostalgia—and a larger middle class than at any previous time in U.S. history—drew buyers to vintage Airstreams, and to newer models that still shared the signature Aviation Age aesthetic, evoking the optimism of an era when the road trip itself was still new.

Today, as remote work makes domestic travel more accessible than ever, the Airstream represents the future that Byam predicted. The comforts of the 21st century are new, but the draw of the road has not diminished.

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Texas Rangers vs. Los Angeles Angels: Preview, How To Watch, Listen, Stream, Matchups

Matthew postins | may 17, 2024.

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The Texas Rangers have a chance to turn around a bad week when they host the Los Angeles Angels for a three-game series starting on Friday at Globe Life Field.  

The Rangers (23-22) are 1-5 in their last six games, which includes being swept at Colorado last weekend and losing the first two games of their home series with the Cleveland Guardians. A win on Wednesday kept the Rangers from extending a season-long losing streak.

Before that, Texas had won four straight series and climbed back into the lead in the American League West. After this 1-5 stretch the Rangers are 1 1/2 games behind the Seattle Mariners for the division lead.

The Rangers are still waiting on reinforcements from the injured list. The Rangers hope to get outfielder Evan Carter into the starting lineup this weekend after he returned on Wednesday to pinch-hit after dealing with back stiffness.

Texas is hopeful that pitcher Dane Dunning will be back for the next road trip and another injured starter, Nathan Eovaldi, will be back by the end of the month.  

The Angels (16-28) have struggled after a good start and are without outfielder Mike Trout and third baseman Anthony Rendon due to injuries.

Here is the preview for the game, with probable pitchers, how to watch, listen and more.

Texas Rangers vs. Los Angeles Angels: How To Watch, Listen, Matchups

Where: Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas

Friday’s Game

Time: 7:05 p.m. CT

Television: Bally Sports Southwest. Radio: 105.3 The Fan, KFLC 1270. Watch on fubo.tv .

Probable pitchers

Texas Rangers: LHP Andrew Heaney (0-4, 4.39)

Los Angeles Angels: LHP Tyler Anderson (3-4, 2.92)

Saturday’s Game

Time: 6:15 p.m. CT

Television: Fox. Radio: 105.3 The Fan, KFLC 1270.

Texas Rangers: RHP José Ureña (1-3, 3.62)

Los Angeles Angels: LHP Patrick Sandoval (2-6, 5.00)

Sunday’s Game

Time: 1:35 p.m. CT

Television: Bally Sports Southwest. Radio: 105.3 The Fan, KFLC 1270.

Texas Rangers: RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-2, 3.75)

Los Angeles Angels: RHP José Soriano (1-4, 3.72)

Upcoming Road Trip

May 21-23: at Philadelphia Phillies

May 24-26: at Minnesota Twins

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Matthew Postins is an award-winning sports journalist who covers the Texas Rangers for Fan Nation/SI and also writes about the Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. He also covers the Big 12 for HeartlandCollegeSports.com.

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Sky close out two-game road trip with 83-74 win over Wings, first under new coach Teresa Weatherspoon

"[the biggest difference] was a desire to win,” sky coach teresa weatherspoon said. “we were hungry to get it done, and we bettered ourselves in the second half.”.

Diamond DeShields led the Sky with 16 points in Saturday night’s win.

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ARLINGTON, Texas — After falling apart in the closing minutes of their season-opening loss, the Sky flipped the script Saturday and overcame an eight-point deficit to beat those same Wings 83-74.

“[The biggest difference] was a desire to win,” coach Teresa Weatherspoon said. “We were hungry to get it done, and we bettered ourselves in the second half.”

Wings coach Latricia Trammell spoke all week about needing to find extra personnel for this game. After forward Natasha Howard fractured her foot in the opener Wednesday, the Wings had fewer than 10 players available before signing forward Monique Billings to a hardship contract.

“You want to play?” Trammell jokingly asked media members Friday.

It seemed like the Wings had all they needed to get another victory, but they hit a wall in the fourth quarter. The Sky outscored them 28-11. Arike Ogunbowale accounted for all but two of Dallas’ 11 points.

• Wings spoil Teresa Weatherspoon’s coaching debut, beating Sky 87-79 in opener

After going 2-for-8 from the free-throw line in the first game, Sky rookie Angel Reese vowed to make amends. Reese did, going 5-for-7 from the foul line, but she only shot 3-for-9 from the field. Her first field goal was a reverse layup in the fourth quarter. She sat for much of the second and third quarters after getting into foul trouble.

Reese had 11 points, nine rebounds and two assists. Diamond DeShields led the Sky with 16 points, playing 24 minutes, up from the 18 she logged Wednesday. Six Sky players scored in double figures.

Weatherspoon returned to her starting lineup at the beginning of the fourth quarter after being forced into other rotations with Reese and Elizabeth Williams saddled with four fouls apiece. Marina Mabrey opened the quarter with a three-pointer to cut the Sky’s deficit to five.

“We knew we had to come out swinging to start the fourth,” DeShields said. “Anytime ‘Money’ Mabrey gets to knock one down, it makes the whole team feel good.”

Williams had a chance to tie the game by converting a three-point opportunity with just under seven minutes left. But she missed the free throw, which resulted in a three-point opportunity for Reese, who made the free throw to put the Sky up by two.

• Overwhelming sense of gratitude accompanied Diamond DeShields’ return to court with Sky

Ogunbowale lit up the Sky’s backcourt players, getting them to bite on her shot fake all night. She had a game-high 35 points. After a three-pointer cut the Wings’ deficit to three, Trammell signaled for the crowd to get louder.

“She’s a volume shooter,” DeShields said. “She’s going to get them up. We just tried to focus on showing hand and making sure every shot was contested. All you can do is guard it the best you can and make it as difficult as possible.

“We live with the outcome as long as we defend the right way.”

A block by Williams, her fifth, with less than a minute to play was the final blow, sending Wings fans to the exits. She had 12 points, 10 rebounds and five steals.

There are still major areas of concern for the Sky, starting with their 19 turnovers. Another area that needs attention is their rebounding. They gave up 20 points on second-chance opportunities.

“We’re getting to know one another,” Weatherspoon said. “They were doing exactly what was asked of them, maybe trying to share a little bit too much. I was comfortable with what they were trying to do, knowing that those are things we can correct.”