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"I always sleep on silk sheets because I love the way they feel against my skin," says Lawson, who's one of the nation's top college point guards. The 21-year-old Little, Atlanta's top goal-scorer, believes...

In many ways the Discovery Channel team has been cycling's model franchise since its inception, in 1989. Its riders—Lance Armstrong, mostly—have won eight of the last nine Tours de France and, at least by the sport's...

Lance Armstrong, 33, who announced on Monday that this year's Tour de France will be his final race. The six-time Tour champ, who recently signed with a new team sponsored by the Discovery Channel, said he wants to...

Fishing the choppy waters off Alaska for crab is "the deadliest job in the world," the melodramatic voice-overs repeatedly remind us in the Discovery Channel's 10-part documentary series Deadliest Catch (set to debut...

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