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WINNIPEG - John Hufnagel is about to take a well-deserved vacation.The Calgary Stampeders head coach/GM followed up his teams 2014 Grey Cup championship by being named the CFLs coach of the year Wednesday.I have to go to work (Thursday) but the day after Im heading on a plane to go across the ocean for a week so Ill be sipping a mai tai, he said of his Hawaiian holiday.Hufnagel, 63, earned his second Annis Stukus Trophy after leading Calgary to a CFL-best 15-3 regular-season record. The franchise then claimed its seventh championship with a 20-16 Grey Cup victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at B.C. Place Stadium.Tom Higgins of the Montreal Alouettes and Chris Jones of the Edmonton Eskimos were the finalists. Hufnagel received 43 first-place votes on the 65 ballots cast by members of the Football Reporters of Canada.Hufnagels first coach-of-the-year award came in 08 when he led Calgary to a Grey Cup title in his first season back with the club. The Stampeders lost the 100th Grey Cup game to the Toronto Argonauts in 2012.Hufnagel has one more season to try and claim a third Annis Stukus Trophy. Hell return to the sidelines in 2015 then hand the coaching reins over to offensive co-ordinator Dave Dickenson and focus on his GM duties. On Wednesday, Hufnagel said there was no temptation for him to go out on top after winning the championship.This whole thing was an agreement put in place last year to keep Dave in the building, Hufnagel said. In fact, Dave told me right after the Grey Cup game, he said, Now dont do anything stupid.We have a plan and we will follow through with that plan. I enjoy coaching and so I have one more year to enjoy it.Calgary defensive back/linebacker Keon Raymond was proud to see his head coach honoured. Raymond, a CFL Players Association rep, on hand as part of the leagues annual meetings.Im extremely happy for coach Huf, Raymond said. For him over the last couple of years to be coming so close and for him to win, and not just to win, but to have the season that weve had…Words cant express how important he is to our team, our organization. A lot of people on the outside see him as the Grinch, per se, but honestly hes a coach that I wouldnt mind watching my kids. I mean, he probably wont hear them a lot of times breaking stuff (Hufnagel has a hearing impairment), but hes such a players coach because he played, he understands the situations we go through as players.For example, Raymond said Hufnagel supported a company that approached the Stampeders to try to help players prepare for careers after football. Hufnagel wants similar programs across the league.He sees you as a human first, then a player, Raymond said. He understands the man, then the player.So when you can get a coach who understands the aspects of what you bring to the table and who you are, you want to lay it out on the line for him.Hufnagel said he tries to be up front with his players.I always say to the players, I try to be completely honest because Im not smart enough to remember the lie I told them yesterday, he said.Hufnagel joins Wally Buono (1992-93) as the only Calgary coaches to receive the award on multiple occasions. Besides Buono and Hufnagel, the other Stampeders coaches to capture the honour include Jerry Williams (1967), Jack Gotta (1978) and Higgins (05).Higgins, the former CFL director of officiating and a two-time coach of the year winner, led Montreal to a 9-9 record and second spot in the East Division in his first season with the club. Thats an impressive feat considering the Alouettes opened the season 1-7.Now its become a joke, Higgins said of Montreals early struggles. When we were 1-7, its difficult to lose that many games because it seems like its over a three-month period of time you havent had any success.(My wife) Sharon and I, I continued to tell her, We didnt sign up for this. This isnt what I went to Montreal for. But lifes a journey, so is each and every season. Youre going to have ups, youre going to have downs.We just happened to have a whole bunch of downs and all of sudden it turned because all of a sudden there were some athletes that were injured that came back and we were able to make a change in some certain positions, so it was such a rewarding year.Edmonton posted a 12-6 record — second-best in the CFL — under Jones, its first-year head coach, after registering a 4-14 mark in 2013. But the Eskimos couldnt solve the Stampeders, losing all three regular-season games and the West Division final to their provincial rivals.Jones credited his coaches and players for turning the team around.Unfortunately, winning and losing are both contagious, Jones said. Sometimes you get on a string where youre not playing well or youre losing a game or two and people lose confidence. I think thats just human nature.So to have them come back and this year play as hard as they played, its a tribute to them. Max Scharping Womens Jersey .J. -- Rampage Jackson scowled, howled, then bellowed to the crowd: "Im back! Im back!" With rebuilt knees and a new promotion, Jackson might have one more act left in MMA. Tytus Howard Womens Jersey . -- At the beginning of training camp, Andrew Bogut set a goal to play all 82 regular-season games and regain his place among the NBAs best centres. http://www.texansrookiestore.com/Texans-Kahale-Warring-Jersey/ . PETERSBURG, Fla. 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Hell join Jim Plunkett (No. 16) and Ernie Nevers (No. 1) as the only players whose jerseys have been enshrined by the program. "Realizing the history, it wasnt something that happened a whole lot at Stanford. And thats why it was a great surprise and thrill to learn when coach David Shaw called me a few months ago and told me that they were going to retire the number," Elway said by phone this week. "I think that makes it so much more special now than if theyd done it earlier." Stanford always has been selective with bestowing such an honour. Nevers jersey was retired in 1970, some 45 years after he led Stanford to a Rose Bowl victory over Notre Dame. Nearly 21 years after he became Stanfords only Heisman Trophy winner, Plunketts jersey was retired by the school in November 1991. Nobody at Stanford really knows why it took so long for Elways jersey to be retired. The Cardinal quarterback was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1983 NFL draft and one of the most celebrated athletes in school history. Shaw said he started asking the question when he was a wide receiver at Stanford in the early 1990s and asked again after he was promoted from offensive co-ordinator to head coach in January 2011. In the past year, after Bernard Muir took over as athletic director, those conversations escalated. "I remember thinking about when I was here. I came in, one of my friends, (quarterback) Mark Butterfield, was wearing No. 7. I said, Why the hell are you wearing No. 7?" Shaw said. "Mark had a great senior year and was great and I just kept thinking, Nobody should be wearing No. 7. "And I came back as a coach, Toby (Gerhart), great player, Why is he wearing No. 7? The last couple years I kept going around and I talked to some of our historian people, I talked to Bernard and I said, We have to do this. He was completely on board. And everybody I talked to said, Yeah, why havent wwe done that? There was no malicious intent.dddddddddddd I think it was just one of those things." Shaw said he has spoken to Muir about developing a standard for future numbers to be retired. Muir declined to discuss what the process might entail. Wide receiver Ty Montgomery and defensive end Aziz Shittu both wear No. 7 currently. Whenever they graduate or if they decide to switch numbers next season, nobody at Stanford will ever wear No. 7 again. The irony is that Elway, now the executive vice-president of the Broncos, never intended to wear that number. He wore No. 11 in high school and, in a story he has told many times over the years, a defensive back at Stanford already had taken that number there. Elway said he chose No. 7 over No. 12, which were the only numbers available, "because few athletes wore the number." Now quarterbacks at every level, including Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, wear that number in Elways honour. Elway threw for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns while completing 62 per cent of his passes at Stanford. He held nearly every major passing record -- most of them since shattered by Andrew Luck -- when he left school. Elway still owns the single-game record with six touchdown passes in a 54-13 win against Oregon State on Nov. 1, 1980. Elway was the Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year in 1980 and 1982, when he also was a consensus All-American. After the Cardinal lost at rival California on the infamous lateral play in his final collegiate game, Elway finished second to Herschel Walker in the 1982 Heisman Trophy voting. "We had the highs and lows when I was at Stanford," said Elway, who led the Broncos to five Super Bowl appearances and two titles during his NFL career. Stanford footballs recent renaissance, which includes three straight BCS bowl appearances, surely helped bring more attention to Elways cause -- and it could help others soon. Stanford greats such as Bobby Garrett, Frankie Albert, John Brodie, Gerhart and Luck are among the top candidates to have their jerseys retired. Shaw said he already has spoken with Gerhart about entering the schools hall of fame, though he wouldnt commit to a similar jersey retirement. He has not allowed any player to wear Lucks No. 12 since the quarterback graduated after the 2011 season. "I dont know what their plans are," Elway said. "Maybe this one opens the door for others to be retired." ' ' '