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H. Wayne Huizenga Authentic Nick Nelson Jersey , a college dropout who built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment, AutoNation and three professional sports franchises, has died. He was 80.
Huizenga (HY'-zing-ah) died Thursday night at his home, said Valerie Hinkell, a longtime assistant. The cause was cancer, said Bob Henninger, executive vice president of Huizenga Holdings.
Starting with a single garbage truck in 1968, Huizenga built Waste Management Inc. into a Fortune 500 company. He purchased independent sanitation engineering companies, and by the time he took the company public in 1972, he had completed the acquisition of 133 small-time haulers. By 1983, Waste Management was the largest waste disposal company in the United States.
The business model worked again with Blockbuster Video, which he started in 1985 and built into the leading movie rental chain nine years later. In 1996, he formed AutoNation and built it into a Fortune 500 company.
Huizenga was founding owner of baseball's Florida Marlins and the NHL's Florida Panthers 鈥?expansion teams that played their first games in 1993. He bought the NFL's 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.
"Wayne Huizenga was a seminal figure in the cultural history of South Florida," current Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said in a statement. "He completely changed the landscape of the region's sports scene. ... Sports fans throughout the region owe him a debt of thanks."
The Marlins won the 1997 World Series, and the Panthers reached the Stanley Cup Finals in 1996, but Huizenga's beloved Dolphins never reached a Super Bowl while he owned the team.
"If I have one disappointment, the disappointment would be that we did not bring a championship home," Huizenga said shortly after he sold the Dolphins to Ross. "It's something we failed to do."
Huizenga earned an almost cult-like following among business investors who watched him build Blockbuster Entertainment into the leading video rental chain by snapping up competitors. He cracked Forbes' list of the 100 richest Americans Denzel Ward Jersey Elite , becoming chairman of Republic Services, one of the nation's top waste management companies, and AutoNation, the nation's largest automotive retailer. In 2013, Forbes estimated his wealth at $2.5 billion.
For a time, Huizenga was also a favorite with South Florida sports fans, drawing cheers and autograph seekers in public. The crowd roared when he danced the hokeypokey on the field during an early Marlins game. He went on a spending spree to build a veteran team that won the World Series in the franchise's fifth year.
But his popularity plummeted when he ordered the roster dismantled after that season. He was frustrated by poor attendance and his failure to swing a deal for a new ballpark built with taxpayer money.
Many South Florida fans never forgave him for breaking up the championship team. Huizenga drew boos when introduced at Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino's retirement celebration in 2000 and kept a lower public profile after that.
In 2009, Huizenga said he regretted ordering the Marlins' payroll purge.
"We lost $34 million the year we won the World Series, and I just said, 'You know what, I'm not going to do that,'" Huizenga said. "If I had it to do over again, I'd say, 'OK, we'll go one more year.'"
He sold the Marlins in 1999 to John Henry, and sold the Panthers in 2001, unhappy with rising NHL player salaries and the stock price for the team's public company.
Tributes from three sports and beyond poured in, reflecting the range of his reach.
"Saddened to hear about the passing of successful entrepreneur and Great Floridian Wayne Huizenga Authentic T. J. Oshie Jersey ," Gov. Rick Scott tweeted. "He had a tremendous impact on our state and the world of business."
The Marlins released a statement describing Huizenga as "the original Florida Marlin," and said he "will be remembered as much for his contributions to South Florida professional sports as he was for his many charitable endeavors in the surrounding community."
Huizenga's first sports love was the Dolphins 鈥?he had been a season-ticket holder since their first season in 1966. But he fared better in the NFL as a businessman than as a sports fan.
He turned a nifty profit by selling the Dolphins and their stadium for $1.1 billion, nearly seven times what he paid to become sole owner. But he knew the bottom line in the NFL is championships, and his Dolphins perennially came up short.
Huizenga earned a reputation as a hands-off owner and won raves from many loyal employees, even though he made six coaching changes. He eased Pro Football Hall of Famer Don Shula into retirement in early 1996, and Jimmy Johnson, Dave Wannstedt, interim coach Jim Bates, Nick Saban, Cam Cameron and Tony Sparano followed as coach.
Johnson tweeted: "A great man, one of the nicest individuals I have ever known, Wayne Huizenga passed away. RIP."
Harry Wayne Huizenga was born in the Chicago suburbs on Dec. 29, 1937, to a family of garbage haulers. He began his business career in Pompano Beach in 1962, driving a garbage truck from 2 a.m. to noon each day for $500 a month.
One customer successfully sued Huizenga, saying that in an argument over a delinquent account, Huizenga injured him by grabbing his testicles 鈥?an allegation Huizenga always denied.
"I never did that. The guy was a deputy cop. It was his word against mine, a young kid Authentic Rhys Hoskins Jersey ," he told Fortune magazine in 1996.
Huizenga was a five-time recipient of Financial World magazine's "CEO of the Year" award, and was the Ernst & Young "2005 World Entrepreneur of the Year."
Regarding his business acumen, Huizenga said: "You just have to be in the right place at the right time. It can only happen in America."
In 1960, he married Joyce VanderWagon. Together they had two chil Andrew Weibrechts wait for another top-three result in a super-G reached the two-year mark on Friday.
But struggling with persistent knee problems and finishing 24th in the last World Cup race before the Pyeongchang Olympics havent dashed the Americans hopes for the games.
The racer nicknamed The Warhorse has twice before won a medal in an Olympic super-G after less than impressive results on the World Cup circuit.
Weibrecht was yet to score a notable result in the World Cup when he took bronze at the Vancouver Games in 2010. And he had just one top-10 finish to his account when he sped to silver and could call himself a two-time Olympic medalist in Sochi four years later.
So can he turn the tide once again and finally get a podium again in South Korea next month?
I think its possible, Weibrecht told The Associated Press. Especially if I take the downhills off to preserve my knee. That gives me a lot of time to get good training.
The Lake Placid, New York native, who turns 32 five days before the Feb. 15 Olympic super-G, had his best spell in the two years following the Sochi Games.
He racked up nine top-10 results in World Cup speed races, including a third place in Beaver Creek, Colorado, in December 2015 and his career-best second place at Kitzbuehel the following month.
But 12th place in a race in Santa Caterina, Italy, last season has been his best result in 11 super-G races since March 2016.
Its been a little bit of a struggle, Weibrecht said about his season so far. My knee has been tough so Ive not been able to train as much as I would have liked. I am just taking it one race at a time.
Placing 24th and trailing winner Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway by 2.38 seconds upon his return to the Austrian resort on Friday didnt do his performance justice, Weibrecht said.
I feel like I am skiing well, like theres definitely good parts. I am just not really putting runs together, he said. I felt like I skied pretty decently, I just got out of the track on the flats and the snow is so slow and sticky that its kind of game over.
After the race Darius Leonard Jersey , Weibrecht sat together with the U.S. mens ski teams head coach, Sasha Rearick, to compile a two-week schedule which should give him the best possible preparation ahead of the Olympics.
That schedule is totally focusing on super-G, and means Weibrecht will be skipping Saturdays downhill on the Streif, just as he sat out another classic downhill race in Switzerland last week.
We just skipped Wengen to focus on super-G here, Rearick said. It didnt quite go as well as we hoped. But he is in good spirits to fight on.
Rearick, who was also in charge of the American team at the last two Olympics, is not worried about Weibrechts recent lack of results.
We have been through this with Andrew over the past nine years a few times, the coach said. These big waves, the waves are not short with Andrew, they are kind of long. We have managed to have fun at the Olympic Games with him. Even when hes been at the bottom of the wave.
Rearick said there are no expectations he can do it a third time, but immediately added the question: Why not?
There is nothing to lose in the Olympic Games, he said. Its just to go out and express yourself and have fun going down the mountain. And Andrews done that well over the years.
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