Athletes may pose nude for ESPN mag

KRQE ^ | Published : Friday, 12 Jun 2009, 7:24 AM MDT | By LILY FU, Special Contributor

[Perdogg]

NEW YORK - In a move that could give Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue a run for its money, ESPN The Magazine will publish its first "Body Issue," which may showcase pro, amateur and Olympic athletes posing in the nude.

USA Today reports that the issue, slated to hit newsstands on Oct. 19, is hoping to feature athletes posing in the buff in artistic, tasteful ways. Editor in chief Gary Belsky said the magazine has to figure out how to "use equipment and pads and bats and goalposts and soccer nets and pucks and helmets to obscure body parts that we still can't quite go to in a magazine that's part of a company owned by [Disney]."

[mysterio]

The lengths they have to go to make sports interesting.

[Wyatt's Torch]

It’s a little known fact that fatasses can stay in the majors if they are left handed and can get the curve ball over for strikes...

[synbad600]

Hotter:

[Wyatt's Torch]

Don't forget golf:

[Deb]

Someone needs to introduce Elaine to the “naked guy” in “Sex and the City”.

[Puppage]

Hottest:

[a fool in paradise]

It's a racket that goes back to the 1930s.

Search for Beauty (1934)

Three shady characters - Larry, Jean, and Dan - want to make money legally by resuscitating a fitness magazine with cheesecake and beefcake photos and salacious stories with tacked-on morals. They hire two recent Olympic champions as editors to give legitimacy: Barbara Hilton (Ida Lupino), an English diver, and Don Jackson (Buster Crabbe), a U.S. swimmer. When Jackson and Hilton object to the magazine's contents, they send him on a worldwide search for beauty, for youthful paragons of fitness. When Barbara and Don want out of the partnership to start their own fitness farm, the trio hatches a plan to bilk the kids. Can Barbara and Don avoid being conned or will a femme fatale undo their partnership?

[a fool in paradise]

Is ESPN still owned by Disney?

[earlJam]

And if Maria Sharpova sends me another Christmas card with her nipple showing, I am gonna get really mad.

[a fool in paradise]

Are you a glutton for punishment?

[John Will]

I take it you’ve never seen greco-roman sculptures or Michelangelo’s David.

[a fool in paradise]

HEY! No topless photos on FR!

[raybbr]

Track and field wouldn't be bad either.

[raybbr]

Forgot Allison...

[dfwgator]

She sure has my pole vaulting. Yowzah!

[CholeraJoe]

This is nothing new. The entire Australian Women’s Softball team and Romanian Women’s Gymnastics squad have posed nude and there were no strategically placed pads, bats or goals.

[PfromHoGro]

Photos like that always make me think of Max Von Sydos (sp?) great line from STRANGE BREW-

“I could crush your head like a nut. But I won’t...because I need you.”

[Perdogg]

who is the young lady in green and black?

[Moonman62]

Do I really have to say it?

[Judges Gone Wild]

Jen sure is cut, yet totally feminine, as one of my vaulters said. Hopefully she got that way via lots of ab work, and without HGH or some such. Got any photos of Chelsea?