{"id":768354,"date":"2026-06-29T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:12:16","slug":"struggling-lions-fire-special-teams-co-ordinator-mcdiarmid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768354\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Lions fire special teams co-ordinator McDiarmid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winless B.C. Lions have sacked special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL club, last in the West Division with three straight losses, made the announcement Sunday, less than 24 hours after dropping a 41-33 decision to the Calgary Stampeders (1-2) at Kelowna&#8217;s Apple Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Lions&#8217; general manager Ryan Rigmaiden said in a statement that McDiarmid&#8217;s release was effective immediately and thanked him for his hard work.<\/p>\n<p>McDiarmid previously coached in the CFL with several teams and is a two-time Grey Cup winner with the Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions play the unbeaten Edmonton Elks on Saturday in Kelowna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winless B.C. Lions have sacked special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid. The CFL club, last in the West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-768354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}