Basketball: Women strip for sports lovers

Four members of Lithuania's national women's basketball team appeared nude on the cover of a sports magazine to try to gain support for the squad in advance of this weekend's European championships in France.

"We wanted to prompt interest in women's basketball," said one of the players, Lina Brazdeikyte.

The cover photograph in the popular Lithuanian-language weekly magazine showed the four holding basketballs that partially concealed their bodies.

"Some may call us a prostitutes, but they're the kinds of folks who wouldn't watch sports anyway," she said. "We were posing for those who like sports."