Yes, it’s true, Hope Solo posed naked for ESPN’s “The Body Issue”. A clothes-free Hope Solo is on one of four covers for ESPN’s answer to the Sports Illustrated’s “The Swimsuit Issue”.

What are the odds C.J. Sapong has passed out after looking at this cover due to overstimulation and hyperventilating?

The only critique I have has nothing to do with Hope, because look at her, but it is directed at the photographer. Her watering the grass pose is really odd, why would you have Hope (awkwardly) watering a random patch of grass? Is there something I’m missing? It just doesn’t seem natural, yet this issue is supposed to be about athletes au natural, right? The photographer is doing us a disservice, unless someone can explain the rational behind the grass pose to me.