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Two former Chivas USA youth coaches,

2 Apr 2018 at 00:56

CALGARY - Dave Dickenson says he doesnt mind waiting another year to get his first opportunity as a CFL head coach. Jeff Heath Jersey .John Hufnagel announced Wednesday he will be back on the sidelines next season as he tries to guide the Calgary Stampeders to a second straight Grey Cup title, but he said he will hand the reins over to Dickenson, the teams offensive co-ordinator, in 2016.I have one more year left on the field coaching, Hufnagel said on Wednesday afternoon. Then, Dave in Year 2 will become the head coach and Ill move up to just be the general manager. With that program in place, I dont think that theres a whole lot of talking necessary about another team.When asked if hed still consider talking to B.C. general manager Wally Buono about the vacant head coaching position with the Lions, Dickenson said hes not even considering that option.Im not leaving, said Dickenson, who was announced as a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fames 2015 class last Friday. Ive said that a million times. Im staying here. I dont know if hes planning on calling or not. I respect Wally, love what hes done. Hes been really good to me, but Im locked in here in Calgary. Im very happy to do that.The Stampeders are coming off a 20-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Sundays Grey Cup final. Its Calgarys second CFL title since Hufnagel took over as head coach in 2008.We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this one man and (its great) for Huff to finally get one again, said linebacker Keon Raymond, who referred to Hufnagel as probably the best coach Ive ever played for in my life.I appreciate and I admire coach Hufnagel so much, Raymond added. To have this opportunity to make this run with him — seven years — Im overjoyed with.When told of Raymonds comments, Hufnagel said he appreciated the compliment.It was very flattering, he said. One thing I try to do is build a relationship within the locker-room of trust and part of that trust is them trusting me and it goes from there.Dickenson also had high praise for the man he referred to as one of his coaching mentors.This is Huffs team and hes done just such a great job, Dickenson said. Im glad hes coming back. I told him that after the game, Dont do anything crazy now. Come back here. Hes just really, to me, a guy that we can all lean on and he showed what a great coach he was this year. I want to keep working with him for many, many years.Running back Jon Cornish wasnt shocked to hear of the plan to have Dickenson to take over as coach in 2016.I think that a lot of players were surprised, Cornish said. I wasnt. Hes been the associate head coach and has sort of been the No. 2 guy here for quite some time now, so its just nice to see it official.Now that hes had time to celebrate the Grey Cup win with his staff and players, Hufnagel said hes going to turn his attention to more pressing matters related to helping the Stamps defend their title next season.Right now its full steam ahead and trying to get some players signed up and talking to their agents, Hufnagel said. Hopefully we can have some good luck with that over the next couple weeks.Among the list of prospective free agents on the Stamps is Brett Jones, the CFLs Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman.Brett has a lot of things on his table right now, Hufnagel said. He is getting NFL interest. He wants to try to pursue that. Thats going to be a wait-and-see game. If things dont blossom down south, then hopefully hes wearing the red and white next year.Defensive end Shawn Lemon confirmed that he already has a dozen workouts scheduled with NFL teams, the first on Friday with the Washington Redskins.I wouldnt play for another CFL team but Calgary, so well go from there, said Lemon, who could test the free-agent market. Ive expressed that to the management already. I want to do those workouts and see what happens.Other potential free agents include Stanley Bryant, Brandon Smith, Micah Johnson, Edwin Harrison, Keenan MacDougall, Glenn Love, Simon Charbonneau-Campeau, Brad Sinopoli, Matt Walter, Hugh Charles as well as 11-year veteran receiver Nik Lewis.Obviously were not going to have everybody back, said quarterback and Grey Cup MVP Bo Levi Mitchell. We wish we would. We have a great team, we have a great mesh and we have a great locker-room. Theres going to be some surprises for sure — none that I know of yet. When they come, Im sure theyll hurt, but Im sure well go out and get people too.Like Hufnagel, Mitchell said he enjoyed being able to celebrate the championship win, but that hes ready to start preparing for next season.Its over, we won it, so back to work for the next one, he said. We know that theres a lot of hard work that we have to put in and I know that Im going to push myself that much harder to become that much better. Travis Frederick Jersey .Y. - Matt Harvey wants to make sure hes on the mound in late October — if the New York Mets get there for the first time since 2006. Ryan Switzer Jersey . -- A.J. Burnett was happy to escape from New York.NEW YORK, N.Y. - The troubled tenure of Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes as owners of Chivas USA has ended with Major League Soccer purchasing the team. MLS said Thursday it had assumed operation of the team, which had the second-worst record in the league last year at 6-20-8 and averaged a league-low attendance of 8,366 at home. Vergara and Fuentes have controlled the Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara since 2002 and had a 50 per cent interest in Chivas USA when it was created in 2004 and started play the following year. The pair took operating control of Chivas USA in August 2012 when they bought out former partners Antonio and Lorenzo Cue, who had been running the team. "The original plan which we came up with in 2004 and executed in 05 was to extend one of soccers most venerable brands into the United States," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said during a conference call. "The concept was to take a team that in essence represented the hopes and dreams of Mexican soccer fans both in Mexico and the United States and try to extend that here to the United States. "Ultimately the concept didnt work out," he added. "I came up with the idea with folks here at the league. I dont believe it was the concept as much as there was some executional issues." The concept of a league owning a team is not unprecedented. An entity owned by Major League Baseball bought the Montreal Expos in 2002, moved the club to Washington, D.C., for the 2005 season and sold it to the Lerner family the following year. The NHL had operational control of the Phoenix Coyotes from 2009-13. MLS said Wilmer Cabrera, hired as coach on Jan. 9, will remain oon the job. Kavon Frazier Jersey. The league said it will sell the team to an ownership group committed to keeping the team in the Los Angeles area. Garber hopes to have a deal in place by the end of the year. "Sometimes it takes time to get this done. Were not in a rush," Garber said. Garber said the new ownership group must intend to build a new stadium, and he mentioned the site of the L.A. Sports Arena as a possibility. Chivas USA shares the StubHub Center with the Los Angeles Galaxy. David Beckham was not considered a possible buyer. The former Galaxy star exercised his option to purchase an expansion team in Miami. "I wonder if he would have thought differently if his option execution date was a year from now versus a year ago," Garber said. The team will use the Chivas USA name this year, then will get a new name and logo along with new owners. "When Angelica and I gained full operational control of the team for the first time 15 months ago, we were hopeful we would be able to turn it around," Vergara said in a statement. "However, there is only one Chivas de Guadalajara, and we have realized that it will require more time, further resources, and a level of commitment that would divert too much of our focus from our other business interests." Two former Chivas USA youth coaches, Daniel Calichman and Theothoros Chronopoulos, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the team last May in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming they were fired because they arent Mexican or Latino. "Its been resolved. Its no longer a pending case." Garber said. 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