Phillies’ Hamels signs for three years

Pitcher Cole Hamels signed a three-year, $20.5-million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, keeping the 25-year-old World Series most valuable player with the club through the 2011 season and avoiding an arbitration hearing.

Hamels was 4-0 in the postseason with a 1.80 earned-run average to help the Phillies win their first World Series since 1980. He won the first game in each of the three playoff series and was selected MVP of the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers.

Hamels said he still gets goose bumps every time he watches the World Series highlights video, and he wants to experience another championship in Philadelphia.

“If I’m able to go out there and repeat, I think it’s just going to make it a really nice, sweet time for this baseball city,” said Hamels, who lives in Philadelphia.

Hamels was 14-10 with a 3.09 ERA during the regular season. He made 33 starts and pitched a career-high 227 1/3 innings, finishing with 196 strikeouts and 53 walks.

The Chicago Cubs traded outfielder Felix Pie to the Baltimore Orioles for left-hander Garrett Olson and a minor league pitcher.

Pie, 23, batted .241 in 43 games with the Cubs last season after batting .287 in 85 games with triple-A Iowa. He has a .299 career batting average in 628 minor league games.

Olson was 9-10 with a 6.65 ERA in 26 starts with Baltimore in 2008. He is 10-13 with a 6.87 ERA in 33 career starts, all with the Orioles.

PRO FOOTBALL

Linehan turns down 49ers

Scott Linehan declined the San Francisco 49ers’ offer to become their offensive coordinator, saying he wasn’t ready to commit to his next coaching move.

Linehan was fired in September, four games into his third season as coach of the St. Louis Rams. He had been offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings.

Linehan said he still wants to coach this year but doesn’t intend to rush his choice.

HOCKEY

Kings’ Ersberg is injured

Kings goaltender Erik Ersberg suffered an unspecified lower-body injury Saturday in a 3-2 shootout loss at Dallas, leading the club to promote Jonathan Bernier on emergency recall from Manchester (N.H.) of the American Hockey League.

Ersberg’s status is day to day. Bernier, who made his NHL debut with the Kings last season, was 10-12-3 with a 2.79 goals-against average and .897 save percentage in 25 AHL games this season. The Kings assigned forward Teddy Purcell to Manchester. In 17 games with the Kings this season, he had one goal and seven points.

-- Helene Elliott

WINTER SPORTS

Davis wins world title

Shani Davis of the U.S. set a track record of 1 minute 8.66 seconds to win the 1,000 meters and earn the overall title at the sprint speedskating world championships in Moscow. Wang Beixing of China won her first overall sprint title. The titles were decided by two 500-meter and two 1,000-meter races over the weekend. . . . American Lindsey Vonn finished third in a World Cup downhill at Zauchensee, Austria, good enough to regain the lead in the overall standings. The defending overall and downhill champion trailed co-winners Anja Paerson of Sweden and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland by 0.17 of a second. They both finished in 1:47.52. Vonn won her third Cup event this season and 16th overall, leaving her two short of American Tamara McKinney’s record 18 victories. . . . Manfred Pranger of Austria won a Cup slalom race for the first time in four years and American Bode Miller lost control in the second run at Wengen, Switzerland, and did not finish. Pranger had a combined time of 1:40.36.