Briefly: Orioles hire Cubs bench coach Brandon Hyde to be their manager

The Baltimore Orioles hired Brandon Hyde to be their new manager Friday, hoping his experience as Cubs bench coach will help the team move forward while in rebuilding mode.

Hyde takes over for Buck Showalter, who was fired after Baltimore finished 47-115 last season, the worst record in the majors. This will be Hyde's first stint as a major league manager.

Hyde, 45, was hired by General Manager Mike Elias, who took over last month. Elias has been placed in charge of rebuilding a team that hasn't reached the World Series since 1983.

Elias called Hyde "the ideal leader for the next era of Orioles baseball."

Hyde worked as Chicago's bench coach the past summer after spending three seasons as first-base coach. Before that, he was Cubs bench coach in 2014.

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Mary Hardin-Baylor won its second Division III national title in three years, beating defending champion Mount Union 24-16 in Shenandoah, Texas.

The Crusaders (15-0) rallied from a 10-0 deficit, lifted by two passing touchdowns by Jase Hammack. Mount Union fell to 14-1.

Olympics: Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for the Winter Olympics — most likely for 2030 — in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002. The U.S. Olympic Committee picked Salt Lake City over Denver and Reno, Nev.

College athletics: Augustana will pursue a move to NCAA Division I athletics after the idea was approved unanimously by the board of trustees for the Sioux Falls, S.D., school. Augustana currently competes in Division II, as part of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

Swimming: Australian Ariarne Titmus broke a second world record in three days, winning the women's 400-meter freestyle at the short-course world championships in Hangzhou, China. Titmus, 18, finished in 3: 53.92, breaking the record of 3:54.56 set by China's Wang Jianjiahe in October.