Sports Hall of Fame to open
The Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame will officially open at 10 a.m. April 10 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
H. Wayne Huizenga, a college dropout who built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment and three professional sports franchises, has died. He was 80.
Huizenga died Thursday night at his home. The cause was cancer.
Huizenga was founding owner of baseball's Florida Marlins and the NHL Florida Panthers — expansion teams that played their first games in 1993. He bought the NFL Miami Dolphins and their stadium for $168 million in 1994 from the children of founder Joe Robbie but had sold all three teams by 2009.
Starting with a single garbage truck in 1968, Huzienga built Waste Management Inc. into a Fortune 500 company. His business model worked again with Blockbuster Video, which he started in 1985.
Eagles' Bennett indicted
Authorities issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Bennett, who is accused of injuring a paraplegic woman as he tried get onto the field at last year's Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother.
The Harris County district attorney's office said a grand jury indicted the 32-year-old Bennett, acquired earlier this month by the Philadelphia Eagles, on a felony count of injury to the elderly.
Bennett was a spectator at the game at NRG Stadium in Houston in February 2017 when he tried to get onto the field immediately afterward to see his brother, Martellus Bennett, a tight end for the Patriots at the time. Prosecutors allege he pushed through security personnel, including a 66-year-old woman in a wheelchair who was a stadium employee and who had told him to use a different entrance to access the field. The charge of injury to the elderly can be filed if a person intentionally or knowingly causes injury to a person 65 or older. It carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
• The Dallas Cowboys added another receiver in free agency Friday when Allen Hurns agreed to a two-year deal. Hurns' deal with the Cowboys came three days after he was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• Coach Adam Gase's new backup quarterback in Miami is his former backup quarterback in Denver. Brock Osweiler signed a one-year contract Friday with the Dolphins to provide veteran insurance behind Ryan Tannehill, who is coming back from two knee operations.
• Former Oakland Raiders player Aldon Smith surrendered to police Friday on charges he violated a domestic violence restraining order. Earlier this month, Smith pleaded not guilty to domestic violence and other charges, and a judge issued a protective order prohibiting him from contacting the victim.
Police said Smith violated the restraining order earlier this week.
Giants' Bumgarner injured
San Francisco Giants lefthander Madison Bumgarner exited his spring training start in the third inning Friday after taking a line drive off his pitching hand. The Giants had no immediate updates on Bumgarner's condition.
•Homer Bailey will make his first opening day start for the Cincinnati Reds, a breakthrough after years of setbacks with his elbow. The Reds open the season at home Thursday against Washington.
•Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano will not be suspended by Major League Baseball after being accused of assault.
The commissioner's office said in a statement on Friday "there was insufficient evidence to support a disciplinary determination against Sano, due to conflicting and inconsistent witness accounts and the absence of contemporaneous substantiation."
Sano was accused of assault in December by a photographer who has covered the Twins. She posted on Twitter that the AllStar third baseman forcibly attempted to kiss her following an autograph session at a mall in 2015.
•Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright has accepted a 15-game suspension under Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy following his arrest on Dec. 8.
Wright publicly apologized to his wife, Shannon, after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the penalty Friday.