By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Taylor Swift was crowned entertainer of the year for the second straight year at Sunday's 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, and in her acceptance speech, she gave a shout-out to an ailing fan, Kevin McGuire, a high school football player fighting cancer who she invited to the awards before he was hospitalized Friday. 


"Thank you so much to the fans who voted for this,” the 22-year-old, looking gorgeous, said in her acceptance speech. “I am so happy about this! I want to say to my fellow nominees in this category (They were: Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney). I respect you so much and I love you.

“We work hard and we try to give back, and recently I've become aware of a different struggle that's going