Thanks to ESPN announcer Brent Musburger and the power of social media, Katherine Webb shot to the forefront of celebrity news last week. Miss Alabama USA 2012 gained an incredible 90,000 Twitter fans during the Alabama and Notre Dame football game when Musburger spent a surprising amount of the game focusing on Webb, who was in the audience supporting her boyfriend, Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron. And it looks like the surge of attention on the Southern beauty isn’t slowing down yet— she tweeted last Thursday that she will be featured in Sports Illustrated‘s prestigious swimsuit issue.
