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A List Of People Who Will Get Naked For ESPN The Magazine

A couple years ago, ESPN the Magazine started producing an annual Body Issue, featuring athletes both male and female posing either without much clothing or none at all. And if you can believe this, an issue featuring nude photos (private parts covered, but still) of well-known athletes immediately became one of the magazine’s biggest hits. So it’s no surprise to hear they’re doing another – and today, the roster of names to be featured in the next body issue was revealed. Here are the women and men participating:

Women

1) Hope Solo, soccer goalie
2) Alicia Sacramone, gymnast
3) Gretchen Bleiler, snowboarder
4) Sylvia Fowles, basketball player
5) Belen Mozo, golfer
6) Natasha Hastings, track and field athlete
7) Julie Chu, hockey player
8) Vera Zvonareva, tennis player
9) Steph Gilmore, surfer
10) Suzy Hotrod, roller derby player
11) Kelly Kulick, bowler

Men

1) Blake Griffin, basketball player
2) Jose Reyes, baseball player
3) Steven Jackson, football player
4) Apolo Ohno, speedskater
5) Ryan Kesler, hockey player
6) Jon Jones, UFC fighter
7) Helio Castroneves, race car driver
8) Sergio Martinez, boxer
9) Ryan Hall, marathoner
10) Jeremy Campbell, Paralympian

Some notes: seems to us to be a pretty good mix of athletes and people from all cultures, walks of life, body types, etc. As USA Today’s Michael McCarthy noted, Dancing with the Stars (which, of course, airs on the also-Disney-owned ABC) is well-represented: Solo, Ohno, and Castroneves have all appeared on the show. Also, we’re interested to see how one feature – sending a naked reporter to interview fully-clothed athletes – pans out, if not exactly for purposes related to journalistic integrity. Oh, and C.J. Sapong is gonna flip.