On March 29, for the first time since 1968, every MLB team will be in action on the opening day of the season. Many of baseball’s top talent are featured in MLB’s new Opening Day anthem spot.  “Opening Day 2018: The Hype Is Real,” which shows action from 2017 as a prelude to what it coming in 2018. The action is interspersed with stylized studio shots of such players as new New York Yankee Giancarlo Stanton.

Nordstrom has inked a partnership with Stadium Goods, a three-year-old New York footwear and apparel retailer, bringing its selection of hard-to-find, limited-edition sneakers from brands such as Nike and Adidas into Nordstrom's new store. Nordstrom will only be selling new sneakers that had been released by their makers over the past several years. They will also be available on Nordstrom's website.

H. Wayne Huizenga, the entrepreneur who expanded Blockbuster video and AutoNation into vast enterprises and owned three South Florida sports teams, died Thursday night. AutoNation today is the largest pure auto retailer in the country as well as one of the most consistently profitable players in the industry. Huizenga retired as chairman of AutoNation in the early 2000s but remained a major shareholder.

Toy manufacturer Isaac Larian is leading a crowd-funding campaign to save Toys R Us. Larian, chief executive of California-based MGA Entertainment Inc., a privately held toy and entertainment company, and other investors have pledged over $200 million. They want to raise another $800 million in order to make a $1 billion bid to acquire "all or some Toys R Us assets through the bankruptcy process."

Taco Bell is launching a line of tortilla chips, which will be sold at grocery and convenience stores starting in May. The new chips are yet another example of how fast-food makers have tried to make inroads outside their eateries, extending their brand into new sales realms. Taco Bell already has had a line of packaged products through a deal with Kraft, including meal kits, beans, crunchy taco shells and bottled hot sauces.

Netflix has created its own typeface, just like other tech companies have done. Netflix Sans is the name of the bespoke font, while Apple's is called San Francisco, introduced at its developer conference in 2015. Samsung announced SamsungOne in July 2016. It will save Netflix marketing dollars, as using fonts often attracts large licensing fees, according to its brand design lead, Noah Nathan.

Ford is losing two executives it recently recruited from Silicon Valley, the latest in a series of prominent executives to leave the car maker. Musa Tariq, a former Apple Inc. executive hired last year to be Ford’s first brand chief, is leaving the company after a little more than a year. Raj Rao, another hire from Silicon Valley tapped to run Ford’s smart-mobility division, is leaving the company for personal reasons, effective May 1.

Charles Lazarus, who founded Toys "R" Us 70 years ago, died Thursday, a week after the company announced it will be forced to shut down its U.S. operations. Lazarus, 94, no longer held a stake in the chain. He started the company in 1948 when he was 25, anticipating that the post-war baby boom would create demand for baby supplies and toys. He remained CEO until 1994.

After a successful trial in Los Angeles, Lufthansa is planning to expand its biometric boarding pass program to airports nationwide. Instead of checking boarding passes, the airline uses specialized cameras to snap images of passengers’ faces. They’re uploaded to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which checks them against its database within a few seconds. During the trial, Lufthansa reports it was able to board 350 passengers onto an Airbus A380 in about 20 minutes.

A growing cadre of bartenders, liquor companies, celebrities and environmentalists argue too many of the plastic drinking devices end up in the ocean. “We see straws as a ‘gateway plastic’ in understanding the pollution problem,” said actor Adrian Grenier in a news release championing the cause. The makers of Absolut vodka and Tanqueray gin have announced plans to ban plastic straws and stirrers from their events.