Saskatchewan Rush fire head coach Jeff McComb
CBC
The Saskatchewan Rush have fired head coach Jeff McComb, the National Lacrosse League team announced Saturday.
The organization has relieved McComb of his duties effective immediately, according to a news release.
Saskatchewan Rush general manager Derek Keenan and offensive coach Jimmy Quinlan will serve as associate head coaches until the end of the 2022 season. Defensive coach Jeremy Tallevi will continue as part of the coaching staff.
"Thirty years in this league and this is by far the hardest decision I've ever had to make," Keenan said in the release.
"It's clear we have not met expectations this year but it's not all on Jeff McComb. He's a great coach."
McComb joined the Rush coaching team in 2014, when the team was based in Edmonton, and became head coach in 2020, after Keenan stepped down from the role.
Due to the pandemic, though, his head coaching debut was delayed until December 2021.
Since 2014, he had helped to guide the club to three National Lacrosse League championships.
But during his first season as head coach, the Rush have struggled with four wins and 10 losses so far — their worst record since the team arrived in Saskatoon in 2016.
"Jeff has done the work that's expected of a head coach, but the team has not performed to the level of our expectations," said Keenan in the release.
"Jeff's been a huge part of our three championships and NLL dominance since then. As a friend, colleague, and on behalf of the Rush organization I thank him for his contributions to our success."
The expectations for the team were a lot higher than what they've achieved so far this season, Keenan said in an interview with CBC.
The team should be in a better spot in their division, he added.
"We and a lot of other people may have overestimated our talent level," he said.
Fort William First Nation is opposing a planned redevelopment of the Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) 117 year old Kakabeka Falls Generating Station, which is located in their traditional territory.
A building that sits at the corner of Sussex Street and Brunswick Avenue has had many lives over the last century — being a church, a school and offices. Now it's set to become housing, at a time when the city sorely needs it.
A Waterloo, Ont., elementary school principal will be sentenced in the new year after pleading guilty to child sexual exploitation charges following a joint investigation that involved the London, Toronto and Waterloo police services.
Students at UPEI have let their student union know what they want from the province this fiscal year, and those priorities are reflected in a 2024-2025 advocacy document brought to the legislature on Wednesday.
Larger communities in the N.W.T. will soon see a boost in their territorial funding to maintain infrastructure and deliver services — like water and waste management — but the increase still falls short of what communities need.
The toxic drug crisis has taken more than 47,000 lives in Canada since 2016 and the synthetic opioid fentanyl has become a household name. But now, what's believed to be an even more potent class of synthetic drugs is showing up in drug busts across the country: nitazenes.
The Liberal government and the NDP have agreed to introduce a two-month GST vacation on certain items before the holiday season, Radio-Canada has learned.
Veterinarians are warning Londoners to make sure their dogs are vaccinated and keeping clean after a deadly virus outbreak was declared in London this week.
Registered nurses rallied in St. John's Wednesday as part of a week-long convention, again calling on the Newfoundland and Labrador government to create permanent solutions to staff shortages and workplace violence.
New poll results released by Narrative Research suggest the Progressive Conservatives are heading into Tuesday's provincial election with a commanding lead over their political rivals.
A measles outbreak in New Brunswick is set to push Canada's annual case count to the highest it's been in five years, highlighting how infectious the disease is and how low vaccination rates have allowed it to take hold, says an immunologist.