{"id":769996,"date":"2026-06-30T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769996\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:52:08","slug":"lions-release-special-teams-coordinator-cory-mcdiarmid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769996\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions release special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KELOWNA \u2014 The BC Lions announced on Sunday they have relieved special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid of his duties.<\/p>\n<p>McDiarmid spent the last two seasons with the Lions as special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/alouettes-survive-redblacks-comeback-attempt-in-bounce-back-win\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/28\/alouettes-survive-redblacks-comeback-attempt-in-bounce-back-win\/\" data-uw-original- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alouettes fend off late REDBLACKS push<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/27\/stampeders-spoil-the-party-in-kelowna-to-earn-first-win-of-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stampeders spoil the party in Kelowna to earn first win of season<\/a><br \/>\u00bb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/players\/tyler-kahmann\/169355\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ga-category=\"Clicks - Article\" data-ga-action=\"article-player-link\" data-ga-opt-label=\"Tyler Kahmann\">Tyler Kahmann<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/27\/tyler-kahmann-scores-twice-in-argos-road-win-over-riders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> scores twice in Argos\u2019 road win over Riders<\/a><br \/>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfl.ca\/2026\/06\/25\/elks-hold-off-bombers-on-thursday-to-win-third-straight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elks hold off Bombers on Thursday to win third straight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BC Lions general manager Ryan Rigmaiden issued the following statement on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration, and in the best interest of the club, we have decided to relieve Cory McDiarmid of his duties as special teams coordinator effective immediately. We thank Cory for his hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KELOWNA \u2014 The BC Lions announced on Sunday they have relieved special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-769996","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\/769996","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=769996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}