{"id":768916,"date":"2026-06-29T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:37:12","slug":"struggling-bc-lions-fire-special-teams-coordinator-cory-mcdiarmid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768916\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling BC Lions fire special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The winless B.C. Lions have sacked special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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\u2019s Apple Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lions\u2019 general manager Ryan Rigmaiden said in a statement that McDiarmid\u2019s release was effective immediately and thanked him for his hard work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions play the unbeaten Edmonton Elks on Saturday in Kelowna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The winless B.C. Lions have sacked special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid. The CFL club, last in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-768916","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\/768916","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=768916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}