{"id":799688,"date":"2026-07-13T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:03:08","slug":"b-c-lions-name-dennis-mcknight-new-special-teams-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799688\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Lions name Dennis McKnight new special teams coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SURREY \u2014 The B.C. Lions have named veteran coach Dennis McKnight their new special teams coordinator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The CFL club made the announcement Monday as it returned from a bye week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McKnight spent five seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, including as special teams coordinator in 2024 and 2025, and spent the 2011 campaign as running backs coach for the then-Edmonton Eskimos. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He previously coached in the XFL and with several NCAA programs, including the University of Hawaii and San Diego State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lions fired former special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid on June 28 after opening the season with three straight losses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">B.C. (1-3) will return to play on Friday, taking on the Elks (4-1) in Edmonton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gemma Karstens-Smith, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURREY \u2014 The B.C. Lions have named veteran coach Dennis McKnight their new special teams coordinator. The CFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-799688","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\/799688","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=799688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}