*The Body Issue*
Best-selling of six alternative covers of ESPN The Magazine's original Body Issue in 2009 featuring Serena Williams
Frequency	Yearly
First issue	October 19, 2009
Final issue	September 6, 2019
Company	ESPN
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	ESPN The Magazine

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The 2013 ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue will feature some of the most beautiful and sculpted athletes. And they will all be nude. One of these athletes will be Gary Player, the 77-year-old former.
Tennis pro Agnieszka Radwanska talks about her experience posing nude in ESPN The Magazine's 2013 Body Issue.

The Body Issue is an edition of ESPN The Magazine that features dozens of athletes in nude and semi-nude photographs, which is intended to rival the annual Swimsuit Issue from Sports Illustrated. The first issue debuted on October 19, 2009.^[1]

The 2009 edition had six alternative covers featuring Serena Williams (tennis), Carl Edwards (NASCAR), Adrian Peterson (NFL), Dwight Howard (NBA), Gina Carano (mixed martial arts) and Sarah Reinertsen (triathlons).^[2] The Serena Williams edition sold the most copies.^[3] The 2009 issue was a financial success, achieving double the normal edition sales, greater sales than any bi-weekly issue in over two years and 35 percent more ad sales than comparable issues, which led to plans for extended marketing of the 2010 edition.^[3]

Espn Body Issue 2013 Uncensored

The edition included the regular sports coverage. In the bodies section athletes were featured on and off the field. Even a picture during a knee surgery was included. The 'Bodies We Want' section was a feature of the best bodies in the world of sports all posed nude but with strategic coverage of private parts.^[4] Another section showed the damage done to the human body in athletics such as Laird Hamilton's cracked heel and Torry Holt's crooked middle finger.^[5] One action photo captured six members of Major League Soccer's D.C. United simulating a free kick defensive wall while covering their genitalia.^[6]

The 2019 issue was announced as also being the final print edition of the magazine.^[7]

2009[edit]

Some of the 2009 covers were revealed on shows such Monday Night Football and Good Morning America. The 2009 edition included the following:^[4]

Baseball: Joba Chamberlain, Nelson Cruz, Iván Rodríguez
Basketball: Dwight Howard, Cappie Pondexter
Beach volleyball: Carol Hamilton, Greg Hunter, Noah Kaiser, Eddie Matz, Michele Rauter, Tim Struby^[8]
Boxing: Manny Pacquiao
Figure skating: Johnny Weir
Football: Casey Hampton, Torry Holt, Adrian Peterson
Golf: Sandra Gal, Anna Grzebien, Christina Kim
Gymnastics: Shawn Johnson
Horse racing: Alex Solis
Ice hockey: Zdeno Chára, Bill Guerin, Chris Higgins, Mike Komisarek, Sheldon Souray
MMA: Gina Carano, Randy Couture
Rock climbing: Steph Davis
Rowing: Susan Francia
Short-track speed skating: Allison Baver
Skiing: Kristi Leskinen, Julia Mancuso
Soccer: Natasha Kai, Bryan Namoff, Oguchi Onyewu, Chris Pontius (soccer), Clyde Simms
Softball: Jessica Mendoza
Stock car racing: Carl Edwards, Mark Martin
Sumo wrestling: Byambajav Ulambayaryn
Surfing: Claire Bevilacqua, Laird Hamilton
Swimming: Ryan Lochte
Table tennis: Biljana 'Biba' Golić
Tennis: James Blake, Serena Williams
Track and field: Michelle Carter, Lolo Jones, Sarah Reinertsen
Weightlifting: Cheryl Haworth

2010[edit]

The 2010 edition included the following:

Alpine skiing: Julia Mancuso
Archery: Erika Anschutz
Basketball: Amar'e Stoudemire, Diana Taurasi
Billiards: Jeanette Lee
Bobsledding: Steven Holcomb
Figure skating: Evan Lysacek
Football: Patrick Willis
Football/Mixed Martial Artist: Herschel Walker
Golf: Camilo Villegas
Javelin Thrower: Rachel Yurkovich
Mixed Martial Arts: Cristiane Justino, Evangelista Santos
Soccer: Tim Howard
Surfer: Kelly Slater
Swimmer: Jeff Farrell
Track runner: Philipa Raschker
Volleyball: Kim Glass
Wheelchair tennis: Esther Vergeer

2011[edit]

The 2011 edition included the following:

Baseball: José Reyes
Basketball: Blake Griffin, Sylvia Fowles
Bowling: Kelly Kulick
Boxing: Sergio Martínez
Football: Steven Jackson
Golf: Belen Mozo
Gymnastics: Alicia Sacramone
Ice hockey: Julie Chu, Ryan Kesler
Indy Car Driver: Hélio Castroneves
Mixed Martial Arts: Jon 'Bones' Jones
NHRA: John Force
Para-athletics: Jeremy Campbell
Roller derby: Suzy Hotrod
Runner: Ryan Hall
Skater: Apolo Ohno
Snowboarding: Gretchen Bleiler, Louie Vito
Soccer: Hope Solo^[9]
Surfing: Stephanie Gilmore
Tennis: Vera Zvonareva
Track and field: Natasha Hastings

2012[edit]

The 2012 issue featured the following athletes:^[10]

Baseball: José Bautista
Basketball: Candace Parker, Tyson Chandler
Decathlete: Ashton Eaton
Fencer: Tim Morehouse
Football: Maurice Jones-Drew, Rob Gronkowski
Golf: Suzann Pettersen
Gymnast: Danell Leyva
Ice Hockey: Brad Richards
Jockey: Mike Smith
Mixed martial arts: Ronda Rousey
Rowing: Oksana Masters
Sailor: Anna Tunnicliffe
Soccer: Carlos Bocanegra, Abby Wambach
Surfer: Maya Gabeira
Tennis: Daniela Hantuchová
Track and field: Carmelita Jeter, Walter Dix
Volleyball: 2012 U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team (Destinee Hooker, Megan Hodge, Alisha Glass, Stacy Sykora)

2013[edit]

The 2013 issue featured the following athletes:

Boxing: Marlen Esparza
Golf: Carly Booth, Gary Player
MLB: Giancarlo Stanton, Matt Harvey
MMA: Miesha Tate
Motocross: Tarah Gieger
NBA: John Wall, Kenneth Faried
NFL: Colin Kaepernick, Vernon Davis
NHL hockey: Joffrey Lupul
NHRA drag racing: Courtney Force
Rock Climbing: Chris Sharma, Daila Ojeda
Snowboarding: Elena Hight
Soccer: Sydney Leroux
Tennis: Agnieszka Radwańska, John Isner
Volleyball: Kerri Walsh Jennings
WNBA: Swin Cash

2014[edit]

The 2014 issue featured the following athletes [1]:

Basketball: Serge Ibaka, Angel McCoughtry
BMX bike motocross: Nigel Sylvester
Bobsledding: Aja Evans
Boxing: Bernard Hopkins, Danyelle Wolf
Cliff Diving: Ginger Huber
Hockey: Hilary Knight
MLB: Prince Fielder