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Carlos Alcaraz's Tennis Tush, SI Swimsuit Covers Lack Body Diversity, and Celebrating Athlete Moms

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4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The 2026 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hits newsstands on Thursday. This year’s cover stars departed from what we’re used to seeing from on the cover of the swimsuit issue in recent years – diverse ages, races, and especially body sizes. With conversations around GLP-1s, the death of body positivity in our culture, and the general shrinking of high profile women that’s hard to ignore, Blake and Caroline wonder: why the sudden shift? In this episode of Well Played, we also cover: Whether Justin Herbert will be the next victim of the “music video curse” Olivia Culpo’s controversial baby announcement ft. a donut cake and a used pregnancy test The WNBA’s 30th season kickoff – and whether we’re in a post-Caitlin Clark era Why Caroline wouldn’t call her ex, even if it guaranteed a Jets Super Bowl win Carlos Alcaraz showing off his tush – we mean talents, in his Vanity Fair cover story Send Its: The 17-month-old baby ball knower https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYGE6nBADWI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Pope Leo is all in on Nike: https://www.gq.com/story/pope-leo-xiv-wore-nikes Bennett Scheffler attends PGA Championship in full PJs: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYM9v2lREw8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Vanity Fair Carlos Alcaraz edition: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/carlos-alcaraz-cover-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Well Played. I'm Caroline Header Shop.

0:04.5

I'm Blake Morgan. I almost forgot my name for a second. Yeah, I was like, you're supposed to keep going. What comes next? Oh yeah, my name. That's it. How's it going, girl? Good. I'm pretty tired this week. Yeah, I was going to say you had a very busy weekend. I did. I went to Portland. Yes. I loved the city of Portland. I loved the fire. Never been. It was gorgeous.

0:21.3

The air is so fresh.

0:22.5

You could have a house and live there in a city. You know, you can also have that in Jersey where you're from. You can't live in a city and have a house in Jersey. Well, you could actually have a, what do you call it? It's multiple levels. Oh, a brownstone in Hoboken.

0:38.1

I don't have the money for that.

0:39.0

I was going to say, you can't, though. But you could. Because they're all a million dollars now. So that's nice about it. The basketball game was really fun, which I'll talk about a bit more later. But it was really special. I got to go with a friend. Well, she works at Offball. she writes their newsletter, Ashton.

0:54.0

So fun.

0:54.4

And then this

0:55.2

cutie girl who's 22 from Women's Health magazine. It made me feel so like a big sister.

1:01.3

Oh, I love that. I love that. An experience I don't have and neither have you because you're not a big

1:05.6

sister. No. Correct. So loved Portland. Thank you to the fire for having us out there.

1:19.1

I actually met a stranger at a coffee shop and then I ended up doing karaoke with them and my other friend who has happened to be in town.

1:29.4

That sounds like the most classic Blake. Yeah, it was so fun. And like I'm not saying that you should do that. Like definitely a vibe check, but I have a pretty good censor on if someone's a weirdo or not, and this person wasn't a weirdo.

1:31.5

See, that's just like so not something I would do.

1:46.4

I know. Ever. I know. Be more like me. And very, no, I'm going to leave that to you. You're the best version of you. Okay. That's fun. Yeah. And also while we were, well, while I was in Portland, the skim team went to the ESPNW summit, which I've ever been to you before, but it seems really fun.

1:47.0

I have not.

1:44.4

But yeah, I hear great. And also while we were, well, while I was in Portland, the skim team went to the ESPNW summit,

2:19.0

which I've never been to before, but it seems really fun. I have not. But yeah, I hear great conversations happen. Yes. Front of the pod, Sarah Spain hosted yet again. Yes. And they had amazing panels and guests like another front of the pod, Leila Edwards. Our girl. Yeah. and so you can actually check out some of our clips from the summit on YouTube well played by the skim or on our Instagram account. I love that. Yeah. Okay. Shall we play the field? Let's play. Let's play. So I actually want to start with something that is not yet out fully to the public. Okay. But we'll be by the time this is out.

2:24.2

Got it. So we're starting with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Okay. Like the actual print issue. So here's the thing. We were talking about this and I was like, you could not pay me to understand

2:28.3

how many covers there are in a year, in a calendar year. Because there's like digital covers. There's the

2:33.1

actual magazine right

2:34.4

like I'm I'm so overwhelmed by how many covers I see yeah like constant I think there's only one

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