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In a callback to its classic “Totally Nude” ad campaign, ESPN is halfway to uncovering something big.
Bummer that ESPN the Magazine’s half-dozen November nude “Body Issue” covers don’t focus on the bottom half of the athletes they depict. Of the four that have been released prior to ESPN’s Friday newsstand date, Serena Williams, Dwight Howard and Adrian Peterson are posed in ways that showcase their upper bodies (mixed martial artist Gina Carano sports a kind of red panty). Community obscenity standards aside, this seems like a missed opportunity. Anyone with a small dose of sports knowledge knows that below the waist is where the action lies in our favorite games.
Here, I don’t mean to be literal, although it’s worth noting that in America’s main stick-and-ball sports, glorious form is born of waist-down superiority. Athletic excellence is rooted in the acreage from what’s done with by Navel Time: Red-hot mixed martial arts is transferring fitness obsession to the calves, thighs and glutes. Adrian Peterson uses his muscular drive to push free safeties backward. An intriguing flaw in Dwight Howard’s body is the lack of rump and whatnot in his 90th-percentile baggy shorts. His Superman muscles don’t keep him from being pushed around in the paint.
To move beyond the literal, get a look at Serena Williams’ big booty. The key to the younger Compton legend’s power game doesn’t dwell in the shoulders that guide her groundstroke. What’s crucial is a magnificently bulbous ass that’s given Serena the core strength to become, potentially, the greatest woman ever to pick up a racquet.
Here’s a butt that breaks down barriers. Crossover cheeks, if you will. Pre-Serena, there was yoga, but there was no yoga butt aka ghetto booty for a set that once craved a Chris Everett body. Women of all ethnicities now strive for a rear end that mimics Serena’s, and they’ll spin, or lift, or Downward-Facing-Dog all damn day to possess it. And these women aren’t re-sculpting themselves because they want to part of a renaissance in tennis. They’re at it because, with a gentle goose from hip-hop, this athlete has helped make rear-ends the new rack. And bigger is better. Serena, by sheer presence, has sexualized her setting.
Long before she scandalized the sport with ghetto hyperbole at the U.S. Open, while she was still wearing traditional outfits designed for another, her ass shouted issues of class. This summer’s clash was foreshadowed, from behind.
Full disclosure: I did some good work while on the original writing staff of ESPN the Magazine, but have been critical of ESPN in the past. Much of my contribution has been better appreciated in hindsight. One of my last pieces was a column entitled, “Between Admiration and Desire,” which examined what it means to “like” an athlete. It was one of my last pieces for the magazine—perhaps coincidentally but probably not. And that’s just one of the countless issues up for discussion once you get past the bikini-girl treatment that Sports Illustrated, the magazine’s rival, traffics in. Kudos then to ESPN for going more directly at a complex subject, even if straight out of the gate its magazine editors haven’t gotten to the bottom of things.
Donnell Alexander is co-author (with Bruce Williams) of Rollin' with Dre (One World/Ballantine, 2008). His forthcoming book is The Chronic: The Last Album that Changed the World (MTV/Simon & Schuster). He has yet to come across anyone he knows on XTube.
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I'm glad she's showing the world she is NOT an unsexy she-beast. Muscles can be beautiful too!
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So ESPN decided to have a "colorful ho & pimp" day! What else is new? White pimps & hos aren't selling these days.
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there's a lovely, LOVELY full body of Dwight Howard. All muscular and stuff...YAY DWIGHT!
I think there's another shot of a whole team of nekkid fellers covering up their front parts on the Insider portion of the ESPN page, but you have to subscribe to the mag to get to it. DANGIT!!! I think ESPN was pretty balanced in the way they shot the athletes, and I love that they covered the whole spectrum of sports.
And I agree, Usain Bolt would have been appropriate for this mag. I would have also dug a few NFL defensive backs and receivers. (No, it's NOT AT ALL that I want to see what they look like partially disrobed, NOT AT ALL....;-D)
Othellot, GREAT point about the strength in her body. I love how the mag seems to capture different kinds of athelete's forms and the different shapes and muscle groups that are developed for the kind of strength each needs for their sport. I think they did a pretty good job showing the beauty of sport. Okay, and sporty beautiful people, too.
KChristian, You are so right. And might I add that I will gladly give ESPN, the atheletes, and their agents my money for this mag. I will do it right now, in fact - subscribing to ESPN.
Thanks for posting that link.
And wow, some REALLY great shots. That rower woman? Very, very strong body. I have much respect.
But hey, where is Usain Bolt?? Fastest man in the universe... and many other track athletes; male AND female... they have truly amazing bodies.
CarolinaGirl... I think as far as the men going all bare, it's probably a matter of choice (and yeah I'd be looking, too!!!). They each have to approve the final publication. Two of them on that link showed a tasteful amount of their lower halves. And then a few didn't. So, it was likely their choice. I think Serena made the choice not to make her gorgeous, ample butt the focus, too. Can you imagine her in that same pose as the female rower? Holy sheeeeit. One would think, "tennis? who plays tennis?"
othellot... extremely hot photo, yes. I think her power comes from her mind, though... determination, focus and discipline ;-) There are other pro tennis players who are awesome, too, who don't have all that lovely "power" from the bottom end.
I'm not sure what photo of Serena Williams the author is looking at, but it can't be the one on the cover of the magazine. The most striking thing about the photo, other than Serena's wide smile, is the lower half of her body. Her shapely, muscular legs and fantastic upper thighs are prominently displayed. One can definitely see where her power comes from.
The photograph could have just had the caption, "BBW", and everyone would have understood and agreed.
I think it's a great shot that is by far the best of the 6 the magazine used for its cover.