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Kentucky football's Courtney Love spends his free time mentoring a Lexington third-grader

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Eight-year-old Antonio McKinney wanted to eat at Red Lobster.

That was fine with Courtney Love, a senior linebacker at the University of Kentucky, but positive reports had to come in first. Antonio's mom, Autumn Floyd, and his teachers let Love know the third-grader had a good week.

"So we went to Red Lobster," Love said.

Since May, Love has spent a Sunday or Thursday with Antonio each week, an arrangement established by Amachi Central Kentucky, a mentoring program that pairs adults with children who have one or both parents in state or federal prison or are affected by incarceration.