Dallas keuchel the body issue
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Galaxy forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, WNBA star Sue Bird, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon and 63-year-old golfer Greg Norman are among the athletes who will be featured in ESPN the Magazine's 10th anniversary Body Issue.
The issue hits newsstands on June 29.
Joining them are Houston Astros pitcher Dallas Keuchel, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns, New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley, Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, Bird's Seattle Storm teammate Breanna Stewart, U.S. national soccer team members Megan Rapinoe and Crystal Dunn, Olympic track and field athlete Tori Bowie, WWE star Charlotte Flair, Olympic cross-county skier Jessie Diggins and softball player Lauren Chamberlain.
Created to celebrate the athletic form, the issue features athletes in tasteful nude and semi-nude poses. The best-selling cover in the series was Serena Williams in 2009.
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Check out Yasiel Puig and Dallas Keuchel in ESPN the Magazine's 2018 Body Issue
Things that possesses: a beautiful swing, excellent hair, a unique relationship with his equipment and, as we now know thanks to ESPN the Magazine's 2018 Body Issue, a whole lot of muscles.
Don't worry: As Puig explained in his interview with the magazine, he's not quite sure how that kind of definition is possible either.
"I don't like to go to the gym or anything like that," Puig said. "I don't consider myself from this world. Sometimes I think I come from Mars because some of the knocks I take on the field that would leave some of my teammates, or any other person, in pain don't hurt me."
Honestly, we can't rule it out. But Puig wasn't the only MLB star to take part: Behold, .
According to Keuchel, he reported to Spring Training this year some 15 pounds heavier, the better to withstand the grind of a long season.
"This offseason I gained 15 to 18 pounds, and I honestly feel like I'm a rookie now -- my body feels that good," Keuchel said.
The lefty also offered some valuable insight into that iconic beard, from maintenance -- "I comb it for 10, 20 minutes a day" -- to whether or not he'd ever shave it off (spoiler alert: don't count on it). Watch his interview below before the Astros' game on Monday:
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Saquon
Barkley
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“Your body is a temple.”1:55
Sue Bird &
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Sue Bird
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Megan Rapinoe
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Megan Rapinoe“It's pretty amazing to think about [being on the cover of the Body Issue], especially in the times we're in. Just think of how far we've come, but also the current climate. Not only are we female athletes, but we're dating as well. It's kind of bad-ass.”read the full interview
Sue Bird“Yeah, I think it'll probably be even more bad-ass later. A year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, to look back and be like, Oh, they were the first openly gay couple to be on the cover, to be in the issue.”read the full interview
Bird: “You can see every muscle moving.”3:25
Tori
Bowie
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Tori Bowie“Right now, I'm more concerned with the mental side of competition than with my body. I'm working on learning how to zone out the rest of my competition and just focus on myself.”read the full interview
“I am the fastest in the world right now.”1:16
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Chamberlain
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Lauren Chamberlain“When I started to get good at sports and when I started hitting the ball really far, that's when my body image changed. I loved what my body was doing for me on the field, and that started to translate off the field.”read the full interview
“It's a lot of angles and a lot of curves.”1:37
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Jessie Diggins“Cross-country skiing is a silent sport. You're moving under your own power. It's such a wonderful feeling. It's almost meditative som
Dallas Keuchel dishes on injuries, weight gain -- and the beard
This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue 2018.
When Dallas Keuchel made his major league debut for the Astros in 2012, he joined a team that had recorded 106 losses the previous season. But by 2015, the Astros were a playoff team -- and Keuchel was a star (not to mention a soon-to-be Cy Young winner). Fresh off a 2017 World Series win that even he found hard to believe, the pitcher posed for ESPN's Body Issue and talked about Houston's rebuild, the toll of playing professional baseball and, of course, That Beard. Here's Keuchel, in his own words:
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The major league baseball season takes a bigger toll than what anybody could ever imagine -- and that's coming from a pitcher. The overhand throw is one of the most violent things on your body, even though you're not physically hitting anybody or getting hit.
I had a foot injury last year where I basically had to numb my foot up the last two months of the season just to get through each and every day. I was shooting my foot up during the World Series, I was in a walking boot, and that was probably the toughest two months of my career. That Game 7, I remember going into the training room and getting a shot in my foot and thinking, "I am so thankful that this is the last game of the season" because I don't know if I could have taken any more.
As a [position] player, I can't even imagine; guys go out each and every day for 162 games to get themselves ready to go and compete against some of the best pitchers in the world. Some of my teammates have been hurting from probably the first week of the season, and somehow, some way, they get themselves in and out of the lineup every day.
FEAR THE BEARD
The beard itself is a very superstitious thing. It started with a couple of buddies of mine daring me to grow my beard