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The Lane Kiffin-Natalie Gulbis Battle Rages On

↵↵We have an update in the most important bracket battle taking place today. No, it isn’t in the traditional field of 65. We’re talking about the previously mentioned battle between No. 16 seed USC coach Lane Kiffin and top-seeded LPGA golfer Natalie Gulbis. What has happened since our first post? Well, Gulbis is aware she’s being bested by a man.↵

↵↵⇥ So how is Lane Kiffin beating me in sexiest woman alive on Esquire.com? Really? This can not be good.↵↵↵A few of us also noticed they’ve updated the photo of Gulbis, because the previous one had her making a really weird face that just wasn’t flattering. (Still, if they didn’t want Lane leading, they shouldn’t have picked a picture that was just so dreamy.)↵

↵↵I’m still unsure whether this Twitter account is actually Lane Kiffin, because it’s not verified, but if it is, it appears Kiffin has responded to Gulbis:↵

↵↵⇥ hey @natalie_gulbis I apologize for this early lead; please finish strong like a 1 seed should. tell evry1 u know 2 vote for u ASAP!!!!!↵↵But as you can see in the screen capture above, the Kiffin votes still have it, and by a pretty decent amount. Although the gap has been closed quite a bit in this race, we must stay strong and continue to vote for Kiffin. It could set up another clash of the titans with the clearly underseeded No. 8 Erin Andrews in the second round.↵↵Head over to Esquire to vote.↵

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