Simmons to enter Hall
Former Milwaukee Brewers catcher Ted Simmons was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Marvin Miller, the union leader who revolutionized baseball by empowering players to negotiate multimillion-dollar contracts and to play for teams of their own choosing, was also elected. After falling short in his first seven times on veterans committee ballots, Miller, who died at the age of 95 in 2012, received the required 75 percent support from this year’s 16-man modern committee. Former Brewers great Robin Yount and ex-Brewers general manager Doug Melvin were on the committee.
Simmons, an eight-time all-star during a 21-year career, was a switch-hitter who batted .285 with 248 homers and 1,389 RBI for St. Louis (1968-80), Milwaukee (1981-85) and Atlanta (1986-88).
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Jordan King had 18 points and Selena Lott added 14 as the Marquette women’s team rolled past UWMilwaukee on Sunday at the Klotche Center.
The Golden Eagles (7-2) raced to a 35-19 halftime lead and never looked back.
Tadri Heard led the Panthers (3-6) with 16 points.
UW women 64, North Dakota State 63: Kendra Van Leeuwen scored 13 points and the host Badgers held off the Bison.
Abby Laszewski added 12 points for the Badgers.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Mike Norvell is Florida State’s new coach, taking over a Seminoles program that has struggled while he was helping to build Memphis into a Group of Five power.
Norvell will replace Willie Taggart, who was fired Nov. 3 by Florida State after going 9-12 as head coach. The Seminoles, who won the 2013 national title, finished the season becoming bowl eligible at 6-6 under interim coach Odell Haggins.
Norvell will leave Memphis having posted the highest winning percentage in Tigers’ history. Named Memphis’ head Dec. 4, 2015, Norvell won at least eight games in each of his four years and reached double digits twice, including this year.
Arkansas tabs Pittman: Arkansas hired Georgia assistant Sam Pittman as its coach, giving the longtime offensive line coach his first chance to lead a college program.
Pittman, an Oklahoma native, has been coaching at the FBS level since 1994 and he’s been in the Southeastern Conference, including a three-year stint at Arkansas, since 2012.
He has spent the last four years at Georgia, working for Kirby Smart.
SKIING
Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany won her fourth career World Cup super-G race as her time withstood a late charge by Italy’s Nicol Delago in Lake Louise, Alberta.
Rebensburg finished in 1 minute, 20 seconds Sunday to edge Delago by 0.35 seconds. Delago was the 31st racer of the afternoon and bumped Corinne Suter of Switzerland into third place.
Three-time overall World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States wound up in 10th place.
Men: Tommy Ford cruised across the finish line, glanced up at the scoreboard and immediately pumped his right glove.
It was simply the start of the celebration as Ford earned his first career World Cup win.
The American racer glided through the fog and the falling snow to finish the Birds of Prey giant slalom in a combined time of 2 minutes, 31.25 seconds in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was second, 0.80 seconds back, while fellow Norwegian Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen took third.
GOLF
Jason Langer made a 16-foot eagle putt on the first hole of a playoff to give father Bernard his fourth victory in the PNC Father Son Challenge in Orlando, Florida.
The Langers closed with a second straight 12-under 60 to match Retief and Leo Goosen and Tom and Thomas Lehman atop the leader board in the scramble event for major champions at The RitzCarlton Golf Club Orlando.
After the 62-year-old Bernhard hit the fairway on the par-5 18th, the 19-year-old Jason hit a 3-wood approach from 270 yards to set up the winning putt.
SOCCER
Ian Bennett had two goals and an assist to lead the visiting Milwaukee Wave to a 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Ambush.
The Wave dropped its season opener to the Florida Tropics, 5-4, on Saturday night.