{"id":20242,"date":"2014-06-30T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/banks-asks-for-release-suspended-by-blue-bombers\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:37:00","slug":"banks-asks-for-release-suspended-by-blue-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/banks-asks-for-release-suspended-by-blue-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks asks for release, suspended by Blue Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, MB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Defensive back Korey Banks has been suspended by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after asking for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Banks, an 11-year CFL veteran who was acquired in a trade with British Columbia in January, did not play in Winnipeg&#8217;s season opener last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kory spoke with (general manager) Kyle (Walters) and I and asked for his release,&#8221; explained Blue Bombers head coach Mike O&#8217;Shea on Sunday, adding he was surprised by Banks&#8217; decision.<\/p>\n<p>The team has not granted Banks&#8217; request just yet, instead opting to put him on the suspended list indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was not willing to accept the role we had for him this week,&#8221; added O&#8217;Shea. &#8220;I believe he thinks leadership comes from being out there on the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banks spent the last eight seasons with BC, recording 391 tackles and 27 interceptions during that span. He broke into the league in 2004 with the Ottawa Renegades.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time Grey Cup winner, Banks has 442 tackles and 37 interceptions in 163 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, MB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Defensive back Korey Banks has been suspended by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after asking for his release. Banks, an 11-year CFL veteran who was acquired in a trade with British Columbia in January, did not play in Winnipeg&#8217;s season opener last week. &#8220;Kory spoke with (general manager) Kyle (Walters) and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}