As you've no doubt heard, Lauren Jackson has posed nude for the Black+White magazine's special Athens Dream issue.

I've only seen the cover shot, which looks pretty good. Seems like they've done that airbrushed areola trick, maybe to make the cover a bit less racy for the newsstands.

The papers have made an effort (somewhat half-hearted) to turn this into a controversy story (comparing it to the various Sue Bird shenanigans last year), and some people object (mostly along the lines of "won't somebody please think of the chilren?!?!")... but for the most part, this is a nonstory.

Maybe the most interesting thing: Jayda Evan's Seattle Times article quotes heavily from the Storm Fans message board thread. I've never seen the traditional media do that for other sports; it seems to be unique to women's hoops. Are the message boards for some reason particularly influential in our world?

On the court, Seattle got another win last night. LJ had 27 on 10-for-15.