TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – ESPN is apologizing for some of the commentary from Brent Musburger during last night’s telecast of the college football championship game, won by Alabama over Notre Dame.
 
     As ESPN’s cameras repeatedly focused on spectator Katherine Webb, who is Miss Alabama USA and the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, Musburger kept commenting about how attractive she is. He said, “Wow, I’m telling you quarterbacks: You get all the good-looking women.”
 
     ESPN has released a statement saying that the commentary “went too far” — and that Musburger “understands that.”
 
     Meanwhile, Webb has picked up more than 140,000 new Twitter followers.
 
     Among those who noticed Webb was Arizona Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett. He tweeted her his telephone number and suggested that they meet after the game. He later tweeted that he meant to message her privately.
 
     McCarron responded after the game, telling Dockett on Twitter to “keep dreaming.”
 

Previously….

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – Alabama’s routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star – Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012.
 
     Webb gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers during and after Monday night’s game. ESPN cameras visited and revisited Webb in the stands, and announcer Brent Musburger piled on the compliments.
 
     As of noon Tuesday, Webb had more than 142,000 followers, trumping McCarron’s 102,000. Before the game, she had only a few hundred. 
 
     The couple met through the social media site and went public with their romance just before the new year.
 
     Webb finished in the top 10 of the Miss USA competition. Her pageant biography says she studied business at longtime Alabama rival Auburn University.