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calgaryherald.com STAMPS Saturday, November 15, 2014 D5 Hughes' recovery still a question mark If I 1 do as a professional athlete. "Not just play the sport, but become what I looked up to in my heroes as a kid. "The only way I know to do that is in helping people whenever I can." The veteran long-snapper is the Stampeders' team spokesman for the Canadian Cancer Society and is a prominent advocate for PinkPower, the team's annual program to raise money and awareness in the battle against women's cancers. "I remember in 2005 when I got here we didn't really have much of a community program. I used to have to fight Geo (equipment manager George Hopkins) and (then-media relations man) Kelsey Goldade to get my jersey and a couple guys' jerseys so we could go to the kids' hospital, get some pens and sign some autographs on blank pieces of paper.

"That was 10 years ago. And we're at the point where that program is an actual, official sponsored program where we go with pens and posters, and we hand out tickets and guys have jerseys for promotional appearances." SHORTS: The Stamps have added Canadian running back and kick returner Bo Palmer to the practice roster. GJ0HNS0NdCALGARYHERALD.COM and repeat as Most Outstanding Canadian despite an injury-abbreviated campaign. "It's another, I guess, accomplishment," Cornish said of his Top Canadian bid. "I'd say the season as a whole wasn't the way I wanted it to.

If I'd played a few more games, we might be talking about another award, but The odds-on-favourite to best East representative Ricky Ray and succeed Cornish as MOP is the B.C. Lions' tackle-happy linebacker Solomon Elimimian. No defensive player has ever won the award. "I think it's time for a defensive guy," Cornish said. "The season that defences have had this year.

Maybe they've benefited from (facing) younger quarterbacks or offences having new schemes and stuff but defences across the board have done very well. Even Ottawa had a great defence. "So for Solomon Elimimian to be the representative out of the West, I think that nothing could be more fitting for the season." Chevrier thrives on giving back If ever an award fit a person, the Herm Harrison Award fits Randy Chevrier. Named for the late, great Stamp, i Calgary HeraldFiles Calgary Stampeders defensive end Charleston Hughes remains hampered by a lingering foot injury. 1 A.

I "I had the pleasure of meeting him and knowing him all my years in Calgary until he unfortunately passed last year. "The things he's done in the community, with he influence he had, that's what I've always wanted to the distinction singles out a Stampeders player who has distinguished himself in the field of community service. "It's an honour to win an award bearing Herm's name," Chevrier said on Friday. Prv. J- I 1 'M GEORGE JOHNSON Calgary Herald The availability of Charleston Hughes, slowed by a lingering foot injury, for the Nov.

23 West Division final remains a mystery. The familiar No. 39 was back out on the field on a biting mid-November morning, but he wasn't exactly pedal-to-the-metal as the Calgary Stampeders reconvened Friday after a day off during the bye week. "I feel pretty good," Hughes said afterwards. "It's one of those things where I'm just kinda taking it more slowly than the last time.

I think I jumped into it a little too fast last time, tried to come back a little too early. "So I'm just taking it easy right now." The star rush end wouldn't go so far as to call himself "optimistic" for the West final. "I guess the best way to describe it at this point is: I still don't know. Only the future will tell." Cornish gives defences props For tailback Jon Cornish, the Canadian Football League's reigning Most Outstanding Player, a third rushing title in three years netted him a chance to represent the West JOHNSON FROM Dl For offensive-line coach Pat DelMonaco, the evolution of an offensive centre is a step-by-step process. So much is riding on the man in the middle.

A centre, he must multi-task. "Obviously, intelligence is No. 1 for the position. No. 2, toughness.

And No. 3, an acute understanding of being a team guy. He's just a really good football player. Got a great motor, plays with a great attitude. He's everything you want in the middle.

"The biggest thing is: You have to be calm under pressure. He's the quarterback of our group. Things are going to change last minute, he's the guy that has to be quick re-directing us in the last few moments. That's the key. He just has to make sure we're in the right call for our front because everything we do blocking-wise is determined on how we identify the defensive structure." While in the employ of Winnipeg a year ago, DelMonaco admits the Blue Bombers had cast a covetous eye on the University of Regina Rams product, who eventually went second-round, 16th overall, to John Hufnagel and Co.

"We had some other needs to fill first," he recalls, "but we were hoping he'd fall to us. He was a really physical player from the moment he entered the CFL. That was the most exciting thing about him. The stability Jones had experienced at centre this year last season, against certain opponents, old campaigner Jon Gott, dealt in the off-season to the expansion Ottawa Redblacks, was recommissioned back inside, shifting Jones sideways slightly to guard has pushed forward the 23-year-old's development. He's been able to settle, to increase his comfort leveL "And he's embraced that," says DelMonaco.

"He was on a steep learning curve both years. This year, though, he lost his crutch. Jon Gott was able to kind of a relaxing voice to him, help him ID and help him take some of the responsibility. He didn't have that this year." Jones readily acknowledges the increased sink-or-swim aspect of his job this year. "Without Jon here, a veteran like that Stanley (Bryant)'s still here, but he's one guy removed (at tackle)." said Jones.

"I laving Gott Last year, he was such a big help. It's been different this year but I think I'm a better player for In winning, Jones would join a select company of two, Ben Archibald (2010) and The Big Chill Fred Childress (1998). as the only Stampeder offensive lineman to collect the offensive-lineman award since its inception in 1974. Not that, even in this, hell be caught waxing eloquent about himself- So ask a guy he helps pick kicks along the defensive front Ask the hands-down best tailback in the Land. "Last yeat he might've been the outstanding lineman, too," lauded rushing chair- Jon Cornish.

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