When did Amanda Beard appear in Playboy?”
Beard’s decision to bare all is either brilliant business … or all wet Yes, I saw Amanda Beard naked. It’s not like I had any choice. She practically threw herself at me. All I had to do was log on to Playboy.com, then click on the July issue preview, then click through 16 pages before I could order the digital version, then enter my e-mail address, home address, credit card number, card expiration date, card secret code, and — this was odd — bust size. Then I had to approve the $4.99 charge, download a digital player, download the magazine, then click, page by page, to Page 112, where “The World’s Sexiest Athlete” was definitely in her birthday suit. I don’t know if you’ve seen the eight-page spread (that’s probably the wrong word, isn’t it?) of Beard, but the photos have created quite a buzz. There’s one of her naked underwater. There’s a few of her naked in a shallow pool of water. There’s one of her naked on a boulder. There’s ano