Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 39 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 15 November 2024.
 
Happy birthday Troy – husband of Clarissa.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is crazy warm 24 degrees Celsius again at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: Are you locked in for all the big rugby union Tests this weekend in Europe?
 
So, our world famous tips are: Ireland to argiebargie Argentina, Scotland to slomo Portugal, South Africa to debrexit England, the New Zealand All Blacks to franjelico France, Fiji to frisco Spain, Romania to robocop Canada and Tonga to MAGA USA in France.
 
In Rugby League: “I am surprised that they’re not trying to sign Cristiano Ronaldo and Tom Brady,” Peter V’landys said in response to a claim by former Rugby Australia boss, Hamish McLennan that Nathan Cleary and Payne Haas, plus a host of other NRL stars, were keen to make a code switch in May 2025.
 
This, after Joseph Suaalii snared a three-year contract worth an eye-watering A$5Million to switch codes.

“I would be more concerned if I was them, with their A$80M worth of debt that they have created, which puts the whole game in financial turmoil.”

In Football: Harry Kane says he is disappointed by the high number of withdrawals from the England squad this week, insisting the national team must come first.

Eight players withdrew from England’s initial 26-man squad for their Nations League game in Athens, including Declan Rice, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer.

The Euro 2024 runners-up head to Greece for Thursday’s must-win Nations League match before a Wembley meeting with Ireland on Sunday.

In Sports Biz: While Disney reported US$22.6Billion in total revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter, up 6% from the comparable period a year ago and beating analyst projections.

Operating income rose 23% to US$3.7B, boosted significantly by the company’s entertainment division. 

Their sports division, led by ESPN, had a flat revenue figure of US$3.9B, and operating income fell 5% to US$929Million, with higher programming and production costs related to college football cutting into earnings.

On both a quarterly and annual basis, ESPN’s domestic operations remain profitable while its international activities are a drag on the balance sheet. 

ESPN+ subscriptions increased 3% to 25.6 million, restoring a growth pattern to the streaming platform.

ESPN+ also posted its second straight quarter of profitability.

In Combat Sports: Almost 20 years after his last professional fight, Iron Mike Tyson is returning to the ring in this Saturday’s hyped showdown against Jake Paul in an exhibition boxing match, featuring six other fights on the undercard from 1pm.
 
Tyson and Paul are expected to walk out around 4pm Fiji time, which you can catch live and exclusive on Netflix at no extra charge.
 
Let’s get ready to call 911 for an ambulance!
 
And that’s a wrap Peeps!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 38 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 14 November 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is crazy warm 24 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: Are you locked in for all the big rugby union Tests this weekend in Europe: Ireland vs Argentina, Scotland vs Portugal, England vs South Africa, France vs New Zealand, Spain vs Fiji, Romania vs Canada and USA vs Tonga in France.
 
In Rugby League: Former Fiji Bati and NRL halfback, Brandon Wakeham has had all drug charges levelled against him dropped.
 
Wakeham was arrested in the carpark of Brookvale Oval in May and charged with taking part in the supply of prohibited drugs and participating in a criminal group.

Now according to the SMH, all charges were dropped during a hearing at the Sydney Downing Centre Courts on Tuesday.

“Throughout this process, Brandon has maintained his innocence and we fought for him with the same belief,” his lawyer said.

“Today’s result, with the charges withdrawn and dismissed against him, is a vindication for Brandon who now seeks to rebuild his life, having endured a very difficult time.”

The 25-year-old has played 40 NRL games at the Bulldogs and Tigers, plus some games for the Fiji Bati.

In Football: “I feel ready for the new challenge. I’m not naive, I know that it’s going to be very, very different, very tough but I’m ready,” and with that, Ruben Amorim jetted to Britain from Portugal on Monday to begin his new mission – to save Manchester United.

The former Sporting Lisbon boss is Man U’s sixth appointment since the end of Sir Alex Ferguson’s trophy-filled 27-year-reign in 2013.

United are 13th in the Premier League table after a poor start to the season but are only four points off the top four.

Amorim’s first match in charge will be away at Ipswich on 24 November, following the current international break.

In Sports Biz: The latest baseball sensation out of Japan - Roki Sasaki is one of the most talented pitchers on the planet.

He’s a 23-year-old who has dominated hitters in Japan for four years with a fastball touching 164Km per hour.

He could wait two years and potentially sign a deal exceeding US$300Million like Yoshinobu Yamamoto did last year.

Instead, he’s coming stateside now—where any team can sign him for peanuts, and get six years of discounted control.

In Combat Sports: Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul’s exhibition boxing match on Saturday from 1pm will feature six other fights on the undercard:
    Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano –Super-lightweight
    Mario Barrios vs Abel Ramos – Welterweight
    Neeraj Goyat vs Whindersson Nunes – Super-middleweight
    Shadasia Green vs Melinda Watpool – Super-middleweight
    Lucas Bahdi vs Armando Casamonica – Super lightweight 
    Bruce Carrington vs Dana Coolwell – Featherweight

Some really looking names in that line up.

They sound like friends of Jake Paul.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 29 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 03 November 2024.
 
Happy birthday Trish Aisake!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is a balmy 23 degrees Celsius again at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: The Flying Fijians were chasing the score against Scotland 57-17 at Murrayfield. Results for the other Test played overnight - England 22-24 All Blacks at Twickenham and former Wallaby Captain, Rocky “Balboa” Elsom has fled Ireland to avoid extradition to France.
 
In Rugby League: Tonga burst out of the blocks in their Pacific Championships Test against the New Zealand Kiwis in Auckland yesterday, scoring four unanswered tries in the opening 32 minutes to leave the home crowd stunned.

But the Kiwis came back to level the scores at 24-24 thanks to an incredible solo try from veteran prop Joe Tapine in the 69th minute.

Only for Tonga to clinch a historic 25-24 win, thanks to Isaiya Katoa slotting a long-range field goal in the 76th minute, to book their spot against Australia in the Pacific Championships final.

Go Tonga Go!

In Football: Europe’s top women’s professional soccer league has agreed to a five-year media-rights deal with Sky Sports and BBC. The league described the deal as “the most significant broadcast partnership ever for women’s football.” According to The Athletic, the pact is estimated to be around US$83.8Million.
 
In Sports Biz: A new VIP ticket package released for the second Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix race, scheduled for November 21 to 23, is almost half the original price last year.
 
The Lewis Hamilton Package includes a three-day ticket to the West Harmon Grandstands and complimentary food, water, and soft drinks; costs US$672 before taxes and fees, down from the original price of US$1,200.
 
In Combat Sports: A 27-year-old Australian Muay Thai star, Jayson Tonkin, also known as “The Dingo” was said to be “in a state of severe intoxication” and panicking about why his friend, a 21-year-old British boxer, was found unconscious with drug paraphernalia in their hotel in Pattaya, near Bangkok, Thailand according to local media.

Finally, only in America: The most expensive ticket in boxing history is on offer for the clash between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.

For the eye-watering sum of US$2Million, fans can purchase an exclusive VIP package for their upcoming showdown at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where a sold-out 80,000 fans are expected on the day.

The 10-ticket 'MVP Owner's Experience' will see two people seated less than six feet from the ring, in a private booth with an additional eight seats in the first two rows of the venue.

Additional perks include the chance to visit both fighters backstage before the fight, an open bar and gourmet all-inclusive food menu, and the chance to have an in-ring photo opportunity after the fight.

The package also offers a signed glove from each fighter, a personal security escort and entrance to various events throughout fight week.  

And that’s a wrap sports fans!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 26 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 27 July 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is clear and 20 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
In the Olympic Games Rugby 7s: After a day off for the official Opening Ceremony on the River Seine in Paris overnight, the Men’s Rugby 7s semifinals resume at 1.30am tomorrow morning with France vs South Africa and Fiji vs Australia, followed by the medal play-offs at 5.45am.

And after years of preparation spending million-dollar budgets, favourites New Zealand, Argentina, Ireland and USA all go home without a medal.
 
Also at the Olympic Games yesterday: Snoop Dogg was one of the last Olympic torch bearers as it headed towards the Eiffel Tower to kick start the Paris Olympic Games.
 
The moment Snoop Dogg was passed the torch in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, he descended down a flight of stairs to the roaring cheers of onlookers.
 
As cameras flashed, The Doggfather hit a quick Crip walk for the rap fans, which raised even louder cheers.

Go Snoop Go Fiji Go.
 
In Rugby League: It’s the sign of a great team when they play badly but still win and that’s exactly what the Melbourne Storm did last night with a 32-14 win over the Parramatta Eels.
 
It racked up a seventh straight win, so the Melbourne Storm now have one hand on the minor premiership, six points clear at the top of the ladder, with six games to play in the regular season.

In SportsBiz: Real Madrid’s reported revenue of US$1.2Billion for last season, is the largest in a fiscal year for any sports franchise in history.
 
The figure is up 27% versus 2023 @ US$914Million, topping all European Football Clubs in revenue.
Only three sports franchises have breached the US$1Billion mark in revenue: FC Barcelona in 2018 and 2019, and the NFL’s Cowboys and Real Madrid in 2023 with their €1.073Billion.

In Football: The results of the Olympic Games Football Women’s group stage games played yesterday – USA 3-0 Zambia, France 3-2 Colombia, Canada 2-1 New Zealand, Spain 2-1 Japan, Brasil 1-0 Nigeria and Germany 3-0 Australia.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 25 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 26 July 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is 22 degrees Celsius and partly cloudy at 5am.
 
In the Olympic Games Paris, Rugby 7s Men’s Quarter Finals:

•     New Zealand 7-14 South Africa
•     Antoine Dupont scored late for France 26-14 Argentina, who won the HSBC SVNS 7s Series this year, but like the Kiwis, go home without a medal.
•     And Fiji 19-15 Ireland with Joji Nasova, Iosefo Baliwairiki and Waisea Nacuqu scoring
•     Australia 18-0 USA

Earlier, Samoa 26-0 Kenya, Australia 22-14 Argentina, Fiji 19-12 France and New Zealand 14-12 Ireland in their final pool games.

There will be a break tonight thank goodness for the official Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games 2024, with the Men’s Rugby 7s semifinals at 1.30am on Sunday morning with France vs South Africa and Fiji vs Australia with the final at 5.45am.

Also at the Olympic Games today: There is Women’s Football group games underway and of course the Rugby 7s games just finished.
 
After the break for the Opening Ceremony there will be 14 Gold Medals at stake on Day One. Go Fiji Go.
 
In Rugby League: After a historic women’s ORIGIN series set a new benchmark for women’s rugby league crowds and TV ratings, expectations are high for the NRLW 2024.

While the Newcastle Knights are looking to clinch a third straight premiership, they will face a tough road to get there, starting with their round one opponents; the Sydney Roosters who they pipped in a blockbuster season opener last night 12-10.
 
In SportsBiz: The Swiss luxury watch brand, Rolex is in jeopardy of losing its decade-long partnership with Formula One as Tag Heuer, another Swiss brand, could take over, according to Bloomberg.
 
Rolex, whose green and gold banners decorate many F1 races, is paying “tens of millions” actually annually to F1 for the partnership, but Tag Heuer, owned by French conglomerate LVMH, could pay US$150Million in total to take over.
 
In Football: The results of the Olympic Games Football Men’s group stage games played yesterday – France 3-0 USA and Mali 1-1 Israel.
 
In the Women’s group stage games today – Canada 2-1 New Zealand, Spain 2-1 Japan and currently underway Brasil 1-0 somebody and Germany 3-0 Australia in the second half with USA vs Zambia and France vs Colombia to play.
 
In Combat Sports: After suffering two boxing defeats against former champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, Francis Ngannou is set to return to MMA.
 
The Cameroonian Warrior last fought in MMA almost two years ago, successfully defending his UFC title against French Champion Ciryl Gane.
 
Ngannou recently revealed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he plans to return to MMA with the Professional Fighters League in a fight scheduled for 19 October in Saudi Arabia.
 
And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 24 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 25 July 2024, where it is 24 degrees Celsius and cloudy at 5am.
 
Happy birthday Malakai and happy birthday Sulueti.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby 7s in Paris Men’s Pool games: Samoa 14-21 Australia, France 12-12 USA and oh boy what a start by Fiji 40-12 Uruguay with Joji Nasova, Selestino Ravutaumada, Ioane Teba, Ponipate Loganimasi and Waisea Nacuqu all scoring.

New Zealand 40-12 Japan, Australia 21-7 Kenya, Samoa 12-28 Argentina and too hot to handle - Fiji 38-12 USA with New Zealand 17-5 South Africa wrapping up a great first day of the Olympic Games Rugby 7s.  
 
Overnight tonight: Samoa vs Kenya at midnight, Australia vs Argentina at 12.30am, Fiji vs France at 1.30am and New Zealand vs Ireland at 2.30am in their final pool games, with the Men’s quarter finals kicking off at 7am on Saturday morning Fiji time.

There will be a break on Saturday for the official opening of the Paris Olympics 2024, with the Men’s Rugby 7s semifinals at 1.30am on Sunday and the final will be at 5.45am.

Also at the Olympic Games today: There is Archery with Men’s and Women’s ranking rounds, Handball Women’s preliminary matches and also Football Women’s – 6 group stage games. 
 
In Rugby League: Australia and Papua New Guinea will host the 2026 Rugby League World Cup, which will see the number of competing nations in the Men’s tournament reduced from 16 to 10.

Australia, Samoa, New Zealand, England, Lebanon, Tonga, Fiji and Papua New Guinea have already qualified for the Men’s tournament after reaching the quarterfinals at the last World Cup.

The remaining two spots will be decided at the inaugural IRL World Series next year which will be contested by the Cook Islands, Jamaica, South Africa and the winner of the European qualifying tournament between France, Serbia, Wales and Ukraine.

In SportsBiz: Netflix’s latest earnings report shows the extent to which it is maintaining its industry dominance, with sports increasingly at the center of that position.

The company reported a total of 277.7 million subscribers, by far the largest fan base in the industry, up 3% on the prior quarter and up 16% from 238.4 million a year ago. 

Revenue grew 17% in the quarter to US$9.6Billion, while net income increased 44% to US$2.2B. 
In Football: Results from the Olympic Games Football Men’s group stage games – Spain 2-1 Uzbekistan, Argentina 1-2 Morocco, New Zealand 2-1 Guinea, Egypt 0-0 Dominican Republic, Iraq 1-1 Ukraine, Japan 2-0 Paraguay, France vs USA and Mali vs Israel underway.
 
In Combat Sports: Undefeated former UFC Lightweight World Champion King Khabib “The Eagle” Nurmagomedov, who retired from fighting in January of 2021 undefeated after 29 fights, reportedly owes Russia millions in unpaid taxes.

Bailiffs are now in the process of seizing Khabib’s properties and assets in Dagestan, including a US$900,000 fleet of luxury cars, including a Ferrari California T and Mercedes-Benz AMG GTS.
Which reminds me to pay . . . er never mind.

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 23 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 24 July 2024, where it is cloudy and 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Happy birthday to two Kiwis - Jay in Auckland and happy birthday Gaetane in Hamilton!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In the Olympic Games: Starting overnight tonight Rugby 7s Men Pool games with Samoa vs Australia at 1.30am, Fiji vs Uruguay at 3am, New Zealand vs Japan at 4am, Australia vs Kenya at 5am, Samoa vs Argentina at 5.30am, Fiji vs USA at 6.30am, New Zealand vs South Africa at 7.30am.  
 
On Friday: Samoa vs Kenya at midnight, Australia vs Argentina at 12.30am, Fiji vs France at 1.30am and New Zealand vs Ireland at 2.30am in their final pool games.

The Men’s quarter finals will kick off at 7am Friday.

There will be a break on Saturday for the official opening of the Paris Olympics 2024, with the Men’s Rugby 7s semifinals at 1.30am on Sunday, and the final will at 5.45am.

In Rugby League: Is Phil Gould untouchable?
 
In May, the TV rugby league Guru was fined A$20,000 by the NRL, for calling rugby league “stupid”, prompting NRL Chief Executive Officer Andrew Abdo to publicly respond, saying “destructive attacks on the game will not be tolerated”.

Fast forward to yesterday and the NRL has backed down, suspending Gould’s fine for 12 months after his lawyer challenged it.

In SportsBiz: TNT Sports parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is attempting to make good on its bid to retain NBA rights, and has made its first big move in exercising its matching rights.

The company submitted a formal response to the NBA’s 11-year, US$76Billion rights deals with Disney, NBC Sports, and Amazon, meeting a five-day deadline to respond to the league.

WBD is targeting Amazon’s “C” package. That set of rights, estimated at US$1.8B per year.
 
In Football: Starting overnight tonight at the Olympic Games Football Men group stage games – Spain vs Uzbekistan and Argentina vs Morrocco @ 1am, New Zealand vs Guinea and Egypt vs Dominican Republic at 5am, Iraq vs Ukraine and Japan vs Paraguay @ 5am and France vs USA and Mali vs Israel at 7am.
 
In Combat Sports: Billy Joe Saunders – remember him?
 
The former two-division world champion with a 30-1 record, still hasn’t resurfaced to continue his once-promising boxing career, after his US$8Million payday for his eighth-round knockout loss to Canelo in May 2021.

And it looks like Saunders is eating very well after his huge payday, putting on at least 20Kg!
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 22 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 23 July 2024, with clear skies and 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The competition for Rugby 7s medals at the Olympics is very tough. Arguably South Africa, Japan, Samoa, Kenya and Uruguay will not bag a medal at the games.
 
And while Argentina, France and New Zealand are the favourites for Gold, you would be nuts to discount double Olympic gold medal winners Fiji.
 
In Rugby League: News Corp is reporting that incoming Eels Head Coach, Jason Ryles, who was released from his Storm contract last week, is about to undertake a “major overhaul” of the Eels, which includes pulling the trigger on the Club leadership.
 
Incumbent Captain Clint Gutherson may be moved to the Centres next season to accommodate young gun Blaize Talagi, and the changes don’t stop there - Ryles will also move out current interim Coach Trent Barrett.

In Combat Sports: ESPN’s Top 100 Athletes ranking since 2000 has sparked controversy, particularly for placing Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao at 71.
 
The list, topped by American swimmer Michael Phelps, ranked numerous basketball and American athletes higher than Pacquiao.

Despite being the only eight-division world champion in boxing, Pacquiao was placed below Floyd Mayweather, who ranked 25th.

The selection involved over 70,000 votes from ESPN experts, but many fans felt the list was biased towards American athletes and sports like basketball and baseball.

In SportsBiz: YouTuber Logan Paul’s energy drink, Prime Hydration, is being sued by the US Olympic Committee for trademark infringement, with the Paris Olympics set to start later this week. 
 
In a federal lawsuit filed last Friday, the committee alleges Prime Hydration used trademarked phrases such as “OLYMPIC,” “OLYMPIAN,” “TEAM USA,” and “GOING FOR GOLD” on its products and in its advertising.
 
It’s not the first time Prime has come under scrutiny: In July 2023, the US Senate asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the company, after energy drinks came under scrutiny for their popularity among children, despite being marketed to adults. 
 
Prime Hydration, doesn’t contain caffeine, but Prime Energy has 200 milligrams of caffeine in a 12-ounce can, which is equivalent to the amount of caffeine in a six-pack of Coke. 

In the Olympic Games: NBA star LeBron James has been selected by his US Olympic teammates as the flag bearer for Team USA, for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on the River Seine in Paris on Friday.
 
“It’s an incredible honor to represent the United States on this global stage, especially in a moment that can bring the whole world together,” James said in a statement.
 
“For a kid from Akron, this responsibility means everything, not only to me, but to my family, all the kids in my hometown, my teammates, fellow Olympians and so many people across the country with big aspirations.
 
Sports has the power to bring us all together, and I’m proud to be a part of this important moment.”
 
In Football: England football star, Ollie Watkins has confirmed his engagement to girlfriend Ellie Alderson after he proposed to her at a romantic lakeside villa at Lake Como in Italy yesterday.
 
The England striker, 28 has been in a relationship with interior designer Ellie, also 28, since 2018 and she took to social media to reveal they are set to tie the knot.
 
She told Instagram followers: 'Special night in Lake Como with my fiancé... ahhhh sooo happy.' 
You know how Donna Summer did it on one of her songs a long time ago – yeah that’s how?
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 21 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Monday morning 22 July 2024, where it is clear skies and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union BREAKING NEWS: Moana Pasifika have confirmed that they have signed All Blacks star and vice-captain Ardie Savea, who has signed a deal through until 2027.
 
Savea is the current World Rugby Player of the Year and has played 84 games for New Zealand.
 
In Rugby League: Wayne Bennett says the Dolphin’s clash against the Panthers should never have gone to golden point.
 
His young star Isaiya Katoa had a golden opportunity to win the game at the death but instead of taking a field goal shot in front from just 12M out, he inexplicably kicked to the corner.

The play was defused and a few minutes later Nathan Cleary landed a 43M golden point dagger to break the Dolphins hearts.

In Boxing: Youtuber and fake boxer, Jake Paul won his 10th professional fight with a sixth round TKO against Bare Knuckles Middleweight Champion Mike Perry yesterday.
 
But despite another win, the same questions have arisen for the social media sensation.

Perry who usually fights at 79kg middleweight, had spoken a big game, but he was knocked down in the first, second and sixth rounds by Paul who was at least 95kg, coming down after building up size for a heavyweight fight with Mike Tyson that was postponed.

CBS analyst Josh Thomson commented: “How long are we going to pretend that Jake Paul is beating people his size or his age? The one person he fought his size and age, he lost to.”
 
In SportsBiz: Criminal and banned betting activity in American sports leagues is already sounding alarm bells. But the next gambling bombshell could drop from their neighbor to the north.
 
Despite its relatively small population of 39 million, Canada is a big gambling nation. Canadians legally wager more than US$20Billion a year on sports, according to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
They spend another US$10B with illegal bookies.

The big kicker - there are no laws in Canada explicitly banning match-fixing.

In the Olympic Games: The Stade de France, host of last year’s Rugby World Cup final, will stage the track and field events, and in typical French fashion - the track will be purple.
 
Alain Blondel, Manager in charge of Athletics for Paris 2024, explained the colour choice: “Our job was to come up with a track that was different from what we had seen, to maintain the creative approach of the Organising Committee, to go a little bit outside the box.”

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 20 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 21 July 2024, where it is mostly clear skies and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The Flying Fijians versus the All Blacks clash in San Diego, California was effectively over by halftime yesterday, with the Kiwis leading 26-5 at the break after scoring four tries to one by Fiji.
 
The Kiwis scored another 21 unanswered points in the second half with Sevu Reece dotting down again for a 47-5 walk in the park at Snap Dragon Stadium, which did nothing for Fiji rugby.
 
Spain beat Tonga 20-29.
 
In Rugby League: The Broncos are back!
 
After a bruising ORIGIN III on Wednesday night, Broncos fullback, Reece Walsh was at his devastating attacking best, silencing a sold-out crowd that initially booed their Queensland Maroons star; by scoring a try, assisting two others and gave the Newcastle edge defence, nightmares all night, as he busted tackles with ease and contributed to six line breaks - the Knights simply couldn’t handle the Brisbane No.1.

Another turning point, was the calming influence of Adam Reynolds, orchestrating their attack and kicking excellently to guide the Broncos to a 30-14 much-needed first win in seven games, to keep their faint finals hopes alive.

In Football: Australian Ange Postecoglou is on the shortlist to be the next England Football Manager, replacing Gareth Southgate, after the Three Lions loss in the EURO2024 final in Berlin last weekend.

According to The Telegraph: “The Tottenham Hotspur Head Coach has been tracked by the Football Association for years. From Australia to Japan to Scotland and now in the Premier League.”

In SportsBiz: The NFL made nearly US$13Billion last season before any of their 32 teams sold a single ticket, hot dog, soda or beer.
 
That information comes from the only publicly owned NFL franchise – the Green Bay Packers release of their annual financial report, with the Packers reporting a US$60.1Million operating profit for the fiscal year ending 31 March, on the back of US$654M in total revenue, up roughly 7% on prior year.

The majority of that came from Green Bay’s share of national revenue that the NFL distributed equally among its franchises for the 2023 season @ US$402.3M.

In the Olympic Games: The Chinese Swimming Team has been drug-tested almost 200 times in 10 days after arriving in France for the Paris Olympic Games, a member of their support staff said in a since-deleted social media post.
 
Published on Weibo by China swimming team nutritionist Yu Liang, the post complained about the frequency and timing of anti-doping tests conducted by the International Testing Agency.
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 19 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 20 July 2024, where it is mostly cloudy and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Happy birthday Elijah & Happy birthday Mum!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: All eyes will be on the Flying Fijians versus the All Blacks clash in San Diego, California today, where the Kiwis are feeling the heat.
 
Try-scoring Crusader’s sensation Sevu Reece starts, while fellow Fijian, Emoni Narawa is on the bench.
 
Fiji Coach, Mick Byrne will be hoping that his burly European-based Fijians will match the Kiwis in the set pieces and in the contact area, to keep his star flyhalf, Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula on the front foot.
 
In Rugby League: While ORIGIN III took its toll on some Clubs – especially the Broncos they have been handed a massive boost with star half Adam Reynolds confirmed to make a shock early return against Kalyn Ponga and his Newcastle Knights, playing for the first time in ten weeks later today, after biceps surgery.
 
In Football: Man City announced the signing of Brazilian Wing Savinho on Thursday from French side Troyes, who are owned by the same parent company as the English champions.
 
Savinho shone last season on loan at Girona, another club owned by the City Football Group.
City will reportedly pay a fee of 40 million Euros for the 20-year-old, who has signed a five-year contract.

The Brazilian international scored nine goals and provided 10 assists as Girona finished third behind Real Madrid and Barcelona to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in their history.

In the Olympic Games: The 19-year-old Captain of the Japanese Women’s Gymnastics team, Shoko Miyata has been sent home from the Paris Olympics over allegations of smoking, local media reported yesterday.
 
Smoking is illegal under the age of 20 in Japan and the Japan Gymnastics Association was investigating to decide if she had breached their code of conduct.

Several reports said that Miyata, who was expected to contend for a medal in Paris, had already left the team’s training camp in Monaco.

She won the all-around title at Japan’s National Gymnastics Championships earlier this year.

In SportsBiz: Warner Brothers Discovery formally received the paperwork from the NBA's proposed US$77Billion media rights deal on Thursday, so they have until next Tuesday to match NBC's reported US$2.5B package or Amazon’s bid, which sources say, has now grown to more than US$1.9B annually.

However, sources also say that the NBA contends Warner Brothers Discovery cannot match Amazon's deal in its “totality" because matching rights are not solely financial.
 
The NBA believes that because Amazon is a streaming entity with a worldwide reach of 200 million viewers, linear TNT Sports - though available in more than 220 countries & territories and in 50 languages - simply cannot match.
 
It’s all about scale baby!
 
In Combat Sports: As Youtuber and fake boxer, Jake Paul fights former UFC star and bare knuckle fighter Mike Perry in Tampa live on DAZN later today, Mike Tyson told Esquire magazine in an interview, that he decided to fight “the problem child” because “I don’t think he can hurt me.” 
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 18 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 19 July 2024, where it is partly cloudy and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: New All Blacks Coach, Scott Robertson has named almost the perfect storm of a team to take on the Flying Fijians in San Diego tomorrow.
 
His six All Blacks debutants will be bursting at the seams to make a big impression, especially though their new young bucks coming off the bench to boost their forward pack – 16. George Bell, 18. Pasilio Tosi, 19. Sam Darry and 20. Wallace Sititi.
 
Billy Procter starts at Centre on debut, while Emoni Narawa is on the bench.
 
Fiji boss, Mick Byrne is counting on young debutant flyhalf, Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula to lead the Fijians around the park with his Christchurch educated boot.
 
In Rugby League: Oh boy – ORIGIN III sure took its toll on some Clubs!
 
While 10 players were charged by the NRL’s Match Review Committee, for the first half scuffle, only Haumole Olakau’atu, who was dressed in a suit and watching from the sidelines, and Rabbitohs star Cameron Murray, who ran in from the bench, were suspended by the NRL Judiciary.

Several other players, like Broncos stars Reece Walsh, Selwyn Cobbo and Payne Haas have been sent for medical tests.

Pat Carrigan was seen the following morning in a moon boot, with the lock reportedly suffering a rolled ankle.

Eels halfback Mitchell Moses suffered the most - a season-ending injury.

In Football: The French Football Federation “condemns with the greatest firmness the unacceptable racist and discriminatory remarks made against players of the France team” and plans to lodge a complaint with FIFA, plus take legal action, after racist chants from members of Argentina’s Copa America winning team in the wake of the Copa victory over Colombia in Miami on Sunday.
 
The chants were heard during a live video posted on social media by Chelsea and Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez from the team bus.

Some players, including Fernandez, sang a chant dating back to the 2022 World Cup final that Argentina won against France that targeted France’s star striker Kylian Mbappe and includes homophobic insults as well as racist remarks.

Don’t you just love social media for recording famous wins!
 
In the WNBA: The WNBA’s reported 11-year US$2.2Billion media-rights deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon is just the latest win for women’s sports, which has been riding a wave of historic momentum in recent years.
 
When the WNBA’s new deals begin in 2026, media companies will be paying at least US$325Million annually for three of the top women’s sports properties:
· WNBA US$200Million, up from US$60M currently
· Women’s March Madness @ US$65M with ESPN
· NWSL @ US$60M with ESPN, Amazon, CBS, Scripps Sports

In SportsBiz: Revenue is up 11% in Q2 for the German powerhouse brand ADIDAS, with its profit of US$371.7Million for the quarter nearly doubling last year’s figure. The results follow a strong Q1 for ADIDAS, which has seen its stock increase nearly 30% year-to-date. 
 
Nike on the other hand is heading the other way.
 
Finally, only in America: A two-time Super Bowl Champion and NFL Hall of Fame legend, Terrell Davis was handcuffed on a United Airlines flight from Denver to California after a flight attendant accused the former Denver Broncos star of hitting him.

The 51-year-old, who was flying with his family, posted about his ordeal on social media, saying the claim was false and described feeling "traumatised" by it.

Davis explained that during the flight's beverage service, his son asked for a cup of ice, so he lightly tapped the flight attendant on the arm to get his attention, only to hear him respond, "Don't hit me!"
The flight attendant then left the cart and went to the front of the plane.

"I was confused, as were other passengers who witnessed the exchange, Davis wrote. "I thought nothing of it other than this particular employee was incredibly rude and blatantly wrong in his accusations of me hitting him.”

Davis said that when the plane arrived at Orange County's John Wayne Airport, FBI agents and local authorities boarded the plane, placed him in handcuffs in front of his wife and three children and removed him from the flight.

Mr Davis was a star running back for the Denver Broncos, playing for them from 1995 to 2001. He helped Denver win Super Bowls XXXII and XXXIII, remains the team's all-time leading rusher and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017.

United Airlines has removed the flight attendant from duty while it investigates the matter, reviews its policies, and is in discussions with Mr. Davis.

Just beautiful United!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 17 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 18 July 2024, where it is partly cloudy and 24 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby League: History plus the vast majority of the 50,000+ fans at Suncorp Stadium last night and five million more Queensland fans in Papua New Guinea, were against them, but the NSW Blues won the State of Origin shield for the first time since 2021 after a stunning three-minute blitz by Jarome Luai and Mitchell Moses broke the game open to seal a hard-fought 14-4 win over the Maroons.
 
In Football & SportsBiz: Despite an ugly finish to Copa América in Miami, the tournament and EURO2024 shattered several international soccer viewership records Stateside.
 
After Argentina and Spain won their respective finals Sunday, the audience numbers show that FOX Sports aired the most-watched Copa América and EURO2024 in US English-language TV viewership history:

The Finals:
· Argentina-Colombia @ 6 million TV viewers
· Spain-England: 6.4 million 

Total tournament average:
· Copa América: 1.4 million 
· Euro 2024: 1.7 million viewers

The total EURO2024 viewership average is up 34% from the 2021 tournament on ESPN. The total Copa América audience average is up 44% from 2016, which was the last time the tournament was played in the US.

In the Olympic Games: Bet you didn’t know that the IOC requires cities hosting the summer Olympic games to have a minimum of forty thousand hotel rooms available.
 
The Olympics have never come in under budget. The 2014 Sochi Olympics were the most expensive @ US$28.9Billion, but the 2016 Rio Olympics @ US$23.6B were the most over budget by 352%.
 
It took Montreal until 2006 to pay off the last of its debt from the 1976 Olympic Games, while Greece’s billions in Olympics debt helped bankrupt the country.
 
Viva la France!
 
And only in America: Boston Celtics star and the NBA Finals MVP 2024, Jaylen Brown tweeted recently, after he was not included on the USA Basketball team for the Paris Olympic Games, that “for sure Nike played a role” in him missing the team.
 
Brown has been a sneaker-free agent since his deal with Adidas expired in 2021. 
 
Brown also recently said that Bronny James “is not a pro player.”
 
Say what Jaylen? Bronny is the son of . . . you know who!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 28 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 02 November 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is a balmy 23 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: England has been warned by All Blacks Captain, Scott Barrett that Joe Marler’s call to ‘bin’ the haka has ‘loaded the gun’ for the All Blacks ahead of tomorrow morning's Test at Twickenham.
 
England rugby union Prop, Joe Marler had called for the All Blacks Haka to be banned, saying: “It’s only any good when teams actually front it with some sort of reply. Like the league boys did last week.”
 
The Harlequins front rower was referencing England rugby league player Mikey Lewis, who went head-to-head with a Samoan player, while their Siva Tau war dance was being performed before their clash in Wigan last Sunday.

Our world famous tips for all the Tests this weekend - Ireland to happydiwali the Australian Wallabies, the Flying Fijians to kalamazoo Scotland at Murrayfield and England to pakapaka the All Blacks at Twickenham.
 
In Rugby League: The NRL has handed Josh Addo-Carr a four game suspension, along with a A$15,000 fine. “The Foxx” was also handed a A$682 fine and a three-month driving suspension by NSW Police.

Where oh where will Josh Addo-Carr land?

In Football: Ruben Amorim was confirmed as Manchester United’s new Manager today.
 
The Athletic said the 39-year-old would stay with the Portuguese league leaders for their next three games, including next week’s Champions League match against Manchester City.

He is expected to take charge at Old Trafford during the November international break, with his first game set to be Man U’s away trip to Ipswich on 24 November.

In Sports Biz: The Paris Olympic Games not only boosted the entire Olympic movement but it also boosted NBC Sports and Peacock’s parent Comcast.

The company said Thursday that it generated US$32.1Billion revenue, up 6.5% on the third quarter last year.

Peacock, which showed all of the Paris Olympics live, increased its subscribers 9% over the prior quarter to 36 million, boosting revenue 82% to US$1.5B.

No doubt, Paris was the halo, generating a company-record US$1.9B in incremental media revenue from the Olympics, mainly through advertising and new Peacock subscriptions.

On the other hand, Comcast’s cable distribution business lost another 365,000 video subscribers during the quarter – down to 12.8 million - a year ago, subscribers stood at 14.5m. 

And finally, baseball came back in a big way with the MLB World Series, with the Los Angeles Dodgers spanking the New York Yankees in five games.

Fox Sports said the series averaged 15.8 million viewers across all network platforms, 74% over last year:
· Game 1: 15.2 million viewers. The game was the best Fall Classic opener in 7 years
· Game 2: 13.8 million viewers. Competing against a full slate of college football. 
· Game 3: 13.6m viewers. This game gave MLB a rare head-to-head win over the NFL. 
· Game 4: 16.7 million viewers. Whoa go New York!
· Game 5: 18.6 million viewers. Was up 58% on last year’s Game 5, peaked at a whopping 21.3m viewers in the ninth inning as Los Angeles closed out the win.

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 16 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 17 July 2024, where it is mostly cloudy and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: World Rugby has unveiled the pools and match schedule for WXV, their Women’s global XVs competition kicking off on 27 September and running through to 12 October with games in Dubai WXV3, South Africa WXV2 and Canada hosting WXV1.
 
In Rugby League: Michael Maguire is on the verge of coaching the NSW Blues to an unbelievable ORIGIN Series victory tonight at Suncorp, and as a result he could become the “most prized coach in the game” according to The Daily Telegraph, who predict NRL Clubs will be desperate to hire the former Tigers and Rabbitohs boss if he wins.
 
No doubt Billy Slater’s forwards were dominated by the NSW Blues in ORIGIN II, allowing Michael Maguire’s side to run in six unanswered tries for an ORIGIN Series-levelling win.
 
So Queensland legends are calling for Pat Carrigan to put “friendship aside and take on” Payne Haas and for Felise Kaufusi to spark the Maroons’ faltering forward pack in tonight’s ORIGIN decider at Suncorp Stadium.

In Football: England Manager Gareth Southgate resigned yesterday, two days after they lost to Spain in the EURO2024 final.
 
“It’s time for change, and for a new chapter. Sunday’s final in Berlin against Spain was my final game as England Manager,” he said in a statement.

Southgate took over in 2016 when England’s fortunes were at a low ebb. In the last four tournaments he led England to three semi-finals and two finals.

In Sportsbiz: The final major championship of the Men’s golf season – The Open at Royal Troon in Scotland, has increased its purse to a record US$17Million, up from US$16.5M in 2023. This year’s winner will receive US$3.1M, also the highest ever for earning the Claret Jug. This week’s field comprises 158 players.
 
And in Combat Sports: UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones has been charged with two misdemeanors following an incident with a drug-test agent earlier this year.
 
According to Court records, Jones faces charges of assault and interference with communication and if convicted, he could face up to a year in jail and fines totaling US$2500.
 
On 30 March this year, a Drug Free Sport International agent visited Jones’ home in Albuquerque to collect a urine sample.

Initially cooperative, Jones became combative when he struggled to provide a sample and was offered a blood test instead.

He allegedly threatened to sue the agent, took her phone, and began recording the interaction. The agent reported that Jones smelled of alcohol and that his behavior was threatening.

In the Olympic Games: Along with Rugby 7s, Football, Handball and Archery will kick start the Paris Olympics on Wednesday 24 July, before the official opening ceremony on the River Seine. 
 
Breakdancing makes its Olympic debut this year, while surfing makes its second Olympics appearance – for these games - in Tahiti. Skateboarding and climbing will also return.
 
Viva la France!
 
And only in America: Four-time Grammy nominee singer Ingrid Andress said she was drunk during her highly criticized performance of the national anthem before the 2024 MLB Home Run Derby in Arlington, Texas on Monday.
 
Andress posted on social media: "I'm checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need.

"I'll let y'all know how rehab is. I hear it's super fun."

You go girl!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 15 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 16 July 2024, where it is mostly cloudy and a crazy 29 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: "That's not All Black standard, but we still found a way. They boxed us in the corner and we couldn't get out. We weren't transferring what we trained onto the field, but we created enough opportunities at the end," All Blacks Coach Scott Robertson said after they beat England at Eden Park last Saturday.
 
New Zealand play Fiji in San Diego this Saturday before the Rugby Championship starts in August.

In Rugby League: Queensland Maroons Captain Daly Cherry-Evans won’t be influenced by tonight’s result, with speculation the State of Origin decider could be the 35-year-old’s last.
 
DCE has been a mainstay in the Queensland side since he took over as Captain in 2019, with the veteran halfback to play his 18th consecutive ORIGIN match for his state tonight.

In Football: Lautaro Martinez scored an extra-time winner for Argentina 1-0 Colombia to win a record 16th Copa America title at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
 
A poor game, marred by security and crowd issues, forcing an 82-minute delay, was decided by a quality finish from Martinez - his fifth goal of the tournament.

The win was the third straight major tournament title for Argentina following their 2021 Copa America Cup victory and their triumph in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Prince William who is an avid football fan and the President of the Football Association, attended the EURO2024 final in Berlin with Prince George, the eldest of his children.
 
Writing on X after their heartbreaking loss to Spain, William said it “just wasn’t meant to be” but that he and all the fans at home are still "so proud" of the team.
 
At Wimbledon: Where prizemoney is the same across the Men’s and Women’s competitions, Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova both collected £2,700,000.

While Serbian legend, Novak Djokovic took home £1,400,000 prize money as runner-up, adding to his career prize money haul of US$182.5Million, comfortably the most won by any player over the course of their career.

And in Combat Sports: Less than two weeks after his win over Jorge Masvidal on Fanmio pay-per-view streaming platform, TMZ Sports is reporting that Nate Diaz is suing promoter Solomon Engel and Fanmio for fraud and breach of contract.
 
Diaz alleges that he was promised US$10Million pay for the boxing match, but that he only received US$1M upfront, but not the remaining 90% he claims to have been guaranteed.
 
In the Olympic Games: Olympic gold medals are mostly made of silver. Specifically, they’re 92.5% silver, plated with six grams of gold.
 
Silver medals are basically gold medals without the extra gilding. Meanwhile, bronze medals are made from 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. 
 
Gold medals at the Paris Olympics are worth US$800. A silver medal is worth about US$450, while a bronze medal is worth about US$5. 
 
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee offers "Operation Gold" payments where US Olympians winners get US$37,500 for winning gold, US$22,500 for winning silver and US$15,000 for winning bronze. 
 
Singapore is the most generous to its athletes and gives its gold medal winners US$750,000.
 
At the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, Philippines weight lifter Hidilyn Diaz won US$200,000 for winning the country’s first gold medal plus additional compensation that brought her total earnings to US$970,000, plus a house, a condo and unlimited flights on the national airline!
 
And finally this smelly story: A flight carrying hungover England fans back from the EURO2024 final in Germany has been forced to make an emergency landing after an "undefined" smell filled the cabin.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 14 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Monday morning 15 July 2024, where it is cloudy and 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Argentina 33-25 France in Buenos Aires yesterday.
 
France won the first Test in Mendoza last week, but the victory was soon overshadowed by scandals.
Two players were arrested on Monday following the first Test and formally charged on Friday with the rape and assault of a 39-year-old Argentine woman at their team hotel.
The pair denied the accusation and claim that their sexual relations with the woman were consensual.

Another player was sent home, following racist comments he made in a video on social media.
In Rugby League: Manly Sea Eagles trashed the Newcastle Knights 6-44 at Brookvale Oval yesterday, to rocket back into the Top 8.
 
It was one-way traffic from the opening whistle, but the highlight was a piece of individual brilliance from Manly teenager Lehi Hopoate, who bagged a double in the second half, to cap a stellar night, while first-time skipper Tom Trbojevic was sublime at the back.

Newcastle were without ORIGIN stars, Kalyn Ponga, Bradman Best and Dane Gagai, and it showed as the visitors were shredded on the edges all night.

In Netball: The Adelaide Thunderbirds won the Super Netball minor premiership, with a hard-fought 64-62 win over the Sunshine Coast Lightning yesterday, in their bid for back-to-back Super Netball titles.
 
So the Lightning head to Perth for a do-or-die elimination final with the West Coast Fever, who claimed their finals berth after beating the Melbourne Mavericks 57-76.
The Melbourne Vixens ran out 62-52 winners over the embattled Queensland Firebirds to set up a thrilling preliminary final with the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the ladder, the NSW Swifts avoided becoming just the second team in Super Netball history, to go from grand finalists to wooden spooners, after claiming a thrilling 72-71 win over the Giants in their Sydney Derby.
 
In Football: So Gareth Southgate will not be knighted by King Charles after all!

This after Spain beat England 1-2 in the Final of EURO2024 at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany a short while ago. 
 
Our other World Famous Tip for the Grand Final of the Copa América at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami was for Argentina to crunchygranola Colombia.
 
At Wimbledon: With a performance of rare brilliance, Carlos Alcaraz defended a major title for the first time in his exceptional career when routing Serbian legend, Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final overnight 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 in 2hours 27minutes, swiftly enough to ensure he had ample time to settle in for his nation’s EURO2024 final against England.
 
Alcaraz is now walking with the greats of all time; joining his idol Rafael Nadal as the only Spanish men to win Wimbledon twice and Bjorn Borg and Boris Becker as players to win multiple titles at the All England Lawn Tennis Club by the age of 21.

He also joins Roger Federer as the only man in the Open era to win their first four major titles and Borg, Becker and Mats Wilander as four-time major winners at his current age.

In Combat Sports: Australian WBC Featherweight World Champion Skye Nicolson remains undefeated with a dominant win over Dyana Vargas in Philadelphia.
 
The 28-year-old retained her title with a clean sweep of 100-90 on all the cards.

Now 11-0 as a professional, next stop for the Commonwealth Games gold medalist - the WBA, IBF and WBO World Champion Amanda Serrano.

In the Olympic Games: French Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra took a symbolic dip in the Seine on Saturday in a bid to ease concerns about water quality before the start of the Paris Olympic Games.
 
Dressed in a wetsuit, the Minister swam a few metres near the Alexandre III bridge, where the Olympic open water swimming competition will be held.

“We held our promise,” she said to BFMTV, referring to an earlier pledge to swim in the Seine before the Games begin on 26 July.

The Minister was accompanied by Alexis Hanquinquant, the Paralympic flag bearer for France.
Swimming in the Seine was banned in 1923

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also plans to swim in the Seine to prove its cleanliness.

And in February, French President Emmanuel Macron promised to take a dip, too. But he added: “I’m not going to give you the date.”

Just as well given that he may not be President for much longer!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 13 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 14 July 2024, where it is mostly clear and a cold 20 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Flying Wallabies Wing Filipo Daugunu scored twice for the Wallabies 36-28 win, as Rob Valentini, the reigning John Eales medalist, proved the powerhouse his team needed in both attack and defence in front of 21,932 fans showing up at a cold, wet and windy AAMI Park.
 
Other results for this weekend: USA 7-42 Scotland, Canada 35-22 Romania, Samoa 34-30 Spain, New Zealand 24-17 England, Japan 23-25 Georgia, South Africa 24-25 Ireland and Italy 36-14 Tonga in Nukualofa. And today we tip Argentina to puma France.
 
In Rugby League: A scintillating first half from the Dragons set up a 30-26 victory at Suncorp Stadium last night against the Broncos whose season is now hanging by a thread.
 
St George Illawarra are back inside the top eight, while Brisbane have lost six games in a row for the first time since their wooden spoon season in 2020 and they sit languishing in 13th.

Kevin Walters’ side, who played in the 2023 grand final, will need to win six of their final seven games to play finals.

In Football: Gareth Southgate says he is “not a believer in fairytales but a believer in dreams” as the England boss attempts to mastermind a historic European Championship final win against Spain.
 
The Spaniards stand in their way of becoming kings of the continent for the first time, having lost their first European final in heartbreaking fashion against Italy at Wembley in 2021.

Our World Famous Tips for the Grand Finals of the Copa América at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami: Argentina to crunchygranola Colombia, and in the EURO2024 at Olympiastadion in Berlin we tip Spain to espazito England. 
 
At Wimbledon: Czech tennis star, Barbora Krejcikova beat Italian, Jasmine Paolini in three sets to win the 2024 Wimbledon women's title overnight.
 
And get this, Krejcikova does not have a full-time Coach, after sacking her last one in July last year.
At Wimbledon, she does not stay in the official hotel, preferring instead to stay with a local family as she has done for the past decade.

Krejcikova is due to team up with Katerina Siniakova for the Paris Olympics as the pair seek to defend their doubles title from Tokyo. 

In Combat Sports: The main contender now for Alex Pereira’s UFC Light Heavyweight belt is the Russian, Magomed Ankalaev, who hasn’t lost since a last second submission from Paul Craig in his debut.
 
He is currently riding an unbeaten run that extends over 12 fights, with a draw and a no contest. 
 
Alternately, the Brazilian could move up to Heavyweight and challenge Jon Jones.
 
In the Olympic Games: A 2024 University of Oxford study estimates that, since 1960, the average cost of hosting the Olympic Games has been triple the bid price.
 
The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal had an initial projected cost of US$124Million, but construction delays and cost overruns for a new stadium, saddled the city’s taxpayers with US$1.5Billion in debt that took nearly three decades to pay off.

Los Angeles was the only city to bid for the 1984 Summer Olympics, allowing it to negotiate exceptionally favorable terms with the IOC.

Most importantly, Los Angeles was able to rely almost entirely on existing stadiums and infrastructure rather than promise lavish new facilities to entice the IOC selection committee.

That, combined with a sharp jump in television broadcast revenue, made Los Angeles the only city to turn a profit hosting the Olympics, finishing with a US$215Million operating surplus.

LA’s success led to a rising number of cities bidding, from two for the 1988 games to twelve for the 2004 games.

Countries such as China, Brazil and Russia were eager to use the games to demonstrate their progress on the world stage.

However, these countries lacked the necessary infrastructure so costs spiraled to over US$50Billion for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, US$20B for 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro and a reported US$39B for the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. Although China said the games cost just US$4B.

And in the NBA: “Build him a statue,” New York Knicks teammate Josh Hart tweeted after news broke that Jalen Brunson left potentially over US$100Million on the table to continue to be the marquee man at Maddison Square Garden.

Brunson agreed on Friday to a four-year US$156.5Million extension, the team announced.

If Brunson, 27, had waited until next summer for free agency, he could’ve inked a five-year contract worth about US$270M.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 12 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 13 July 2024, where like yesterday, it is mostly cloudy and a cool 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Italy pizzaed Tonga 14-36 in Nukualofa yesterday.
 
In the World Rugby U20s Trophy comp, Samoa 39-19 Hong Kong in Scotland and Fiji plays Georgia in South Africa on Monday in a 9th place U20s Championship semifinal.
 
Our world famous tips for this weekend: USA to joebiden Scotland, Canada to canelo Romania, Samoa to sambo Spain, New Zealand to nutella England, Australia to wagga Wales, Japan to junglejuice Georgia, South Africa to savlon Ireland and Argentina to puma France.
 
In Rugby League: Former NRL players Siosiua Taukeiaho and Jayden Nikorima have been sacked by French Super League Club the Catalans Dragons over a “highly unacceptable” incident.
 
The pair had their contracts terminated with immediate effect, along with a teammate yesterday.

The Dragons released a short statement last night without detailing the incident, but it is understood the players skipped a training session to attend a concert in England – believed to be Taylor Swift.

In Football: Our World Famous Tips for the Grand Finals of the Copa América at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami - Argentina to crunchygranola Colombia, and in the EURO2024 at Olympiastadion in Berlin we tip Spain to espazito England. 
 
At Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic will face Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon Men’s final for the second year straight.
 
The young Spaniard stunned the 24-time Grand Slam champion in last year’s championship match.
 
Djokovic reached his first final of the season by beating Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 7-6, 6-4.
 
The 37-year-old Serb legend had meniscus surgery five weeks ago and has been competing in The Championships wearing a knee brace.
 
In Combat Sports: UFC fan favourite - undefeated Flyweight, Tracy Cortez shed a tear on the scales after making weight for her UFC headliner in Denver, Colorado tomorrow.
 
This after she was forced to shed some hair during yesterday’s official weigh-in, to successfully tip the scales for her main event fight against Rose Namajunas.
 
After initially missing the upper limit of 126lb by just half a pound, Cortez returned for a second attempt clutching her ponytail, which she had cut off in desperation to make the weight.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark could be going to the Paris Olympic Games after all.
 
Arch rival and Phoenix Mercury guard, Diana Taurasi has been dealing with a serious leg injury and so Clark is primed to take her spot.

Not only is Clark named as an alternate to Team USA Women’s Olympic Basketball team, but she is primed to scrimmage against them, playing for the WNBA All-Star team.

And in the NBA: Speaking at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe yesterday, Charles Barkley told CNBC: "The main reason I was talking about next year being my last year - it'll be 25 years that I've been working with Turner, and at this age [61] to go and start over, I don't know if I want to do that."

Industry sources speculate that Barkley could be part of a bidding war from ESPN, NBCUniversal and Amazon if Warner Bros. Discovery is unable to match Amazon’s bid of US$1.8Billion annually.
 
But Barkley said that an exorbitant money offer will not change his mind: "Hey, if I don't have enough money by now, I'm the biggest idiot. I played in the NBA for 15 years. I've been on television for 24 years. If I don't have enough money by now, I'm the biggest loser in the world."
 
Don’t bluff Charlie!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 11 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 12 July 2024 where like yesterday, it is mostly cloudy and a cool 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Our world famous tips for this weekend: Tonga to tango Italy, USA to joebiden Scotland, Canada to canelo Romania, Samoa to sambo Spain, New Zealand to nutella England, Australia to wagga Wales, Japan to junglejuice Georgia, South Africa to savlon Ireland and Argentina to puma France.
 
In Rugby League: Tevita Pangai Junior delivered his best performance since returning to the NRL, with physicality and aggression from the opening whistle, tormenting the South Sydney Rabbitohs defence.
 
With his hard running and equally imposing work on defence, the 117kg Tongan enforcer scored a try in a damaging first-half blitz, that set the tone for a much-needed 36-28 win in Redcliffe, as both teams scored six tries apiece.
 
In Football: At the Copa America, ten-man Colombia defeated Uruguay 0-1 to reach the final of the Copa America for the first time in 23 years after an ill-tempered semi-final that ended with chaotic scenes spilling into the stands. Lionel Messi and Argentina await them after their 2-0 win over Canada.
 
At Wimbledon: Tennis fans witnessed one of the most entertaining but emotionally-draining matches in the tournament’s history as Jasmine Paolini continued her breakout season by edging a devastated Donna Vekic in the first women’s semi-final.
 
Paolini joined a very short list, which includes only the greatest players in modern tennis history, by backing up her runner-up French Open finish and making another slam final with a 2-6 6-4 7-6 win.

The near three-hour epic was the longest women’s semi-final ever played at the All England Club and secured the Italian a place in the final against Barbora Krejcikova, who upset tournament favourite Elena Rybakina 3-6 6-3 6-4.

In Combat Sports: NRL exile, Curtis Scott has the potential to equal Paul Gallen’s hyped A$1Million crossover payday if he knocks out Kiwi-Samoan warrior, Sonny Bill Williams – with the Scott team suggesting only the former All Black and NRL star’s fear of being kayoed by a far smaller man, would stop the fight from happening.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: The Paris Olympics already has one gold medal in the bag before it begins, with 8.6 million tickets sold – a record for any Games.
 
“It’s a record held by the 1996 Atlanta Games of 8.3 million tickets, and we’ve already passed that total now some time ago,” the 2024 Games organisers said yesterday.
 
They also forecast total ticket sales rising to 10 million for the sporting extravaganza, and 3.4 million for the Paralympics staged immediately afterwards.
 
Paris is hosting the Olympic Games for a third time, a record shared with London, two of the world’s most popular tourist destinations.
 
In the WNBA: Caitlin Clark posted the first triple-double by a rookie in WNBA history to help rally Indiana to an 83-78 victory over New York on Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, snapping the Fever’s nine-game losing streak to the Liberty.
 
Clark finished with 19 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds for Indiana. 

“Obviously, it’s really cool,” Clark said. “My teammates have been finishing the ball really, really at a high rate. My assist numbers, that’s because of them.”
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 10 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 11 July 2024 where it is exactly the same as yesterday, mostly cloudy and a cool 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Rugby New Zealand has announced a BIG change for the All Blacks vs England Test II at Eden Park:
 
“NZ Rugby can confirm that there will be a shot clock shown on the stadium big screen and TV broadcast for this weekend’s Test match in Auckland. This will also be in place for all home Test matches in 2024,” a New Zealand Rugby statement said.
 
In Rugby League: Two-thirds through the 2024 NRL season with nine rounds remaining and the usual sprint to the finals.

Just six points separate the fifth-placed Bulldogs on 22 and the 15th-placed Gold Coast Titans.
The Fox Sports Lab has crunched the numbers to produce every team’s Top 8 and Top 4 chances as follows:

1.    Melbourne Storm
2.    Penrith Panthers
3.    Sydney Roosters
4.    Cronulla Sharks
5.    Dolphins
6.    Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
7.    Manly Sea Eagles
8.    North Queensland Cowboys 

In Football: As per our World Famous tip for the second semifinal in EURO2024 in Germany this morning, England beat the Netherlands 1-2 with Harry Kane and Ollie Watkins scoring.
 
Yesterday Spain 2-1 France but could be sweating on the availability of Captain Alvaro Morata after a bizarre incident at full-time, when a pitch invader ran at him, prompting security to rush in and Spain’s first-choice striker was caught up in the chaos and collided with a steward.
 
Morata walked away clutching at his right knee.
 
At Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic advances through to the semi-finals without having to play after ninth seed Aussie hope, Alex De Minaur pulled out with a hip injury.
 
The Serb legend will face either the American 13th seed Taylor Fritz or 25th-seeded Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the final four.
 
In Combat Sports: Australian Sam Goodman won an excellent unanimous decision over unbeaten rising star Chainoi Worawut from Thailand - 117-111, 117-113, 119-109 in Woollongong last night.
 
But the Aussie star suffered a potential broken hand, revealing after the fight that he injured it perhaps as early as the fourth round.

Now for arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet, undisputed and undefeated Super Bantamweight megastar Naoya “The Monster” Inoue.

And in the Paris Olympic Games: Watch out world, Team USA Basketball mean business.
 
Their 12-man squad will have every other nation shaking in their Nikes.

Led by LeBron James, the squad also features Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum, Kawhi Leonard, Bam Adebayo, Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, Devin Booker and Jrue Holiday.

Their combined annual NBA contracts comes in at US$545.4Million.

To put this into context, the entire Australian Boomers squad NBA contracts total US$54.6M annually.

In the WNBA: The WNBA has seen 11 games this season top 1 million viewers, and Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever has played in 10 of them
 
Here’s the kicker – it’s been 16 seasons since the WNBA topped 1 million viewers for a game, before 2024.

A new study from the National Research Group, conducted last month among 1074 US sports fans aged 18-64, digs deep into the “Caitlin Clark” effect, generating the following key points:

• §  59% of Black fans watch the WNBA on at least an occasional basis, compared to just 26% of white fans.
•  64% have heard of Clark, compared to 46% for the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese, who ranked No. 2.
• §  66% have an overall positive impression of Clark, with 4% negative. That is better than most NBA stars.
• §  72% who follow Clark say that they sympathize with her because of the press attention she’s received (60% say the media treats her unfairly).
• §  81% of fans say Clark is the main reason they’ve watched more WNBA this year than they normally do.
• §  20% of those planning to watch the Paris Olympics said that Clark’s absence would make them less interested in watching women’s basketball.

You go girl!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 09 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 10 July 2024 where it is mostly cloudy and a cool 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Due to heavy rainfall in Cape Town on Tuesday 9 July, the pitch at Athlone Stadium was declared not safe to play.

And the RWC U20 Ireland vs Australia was cancelled and both teams were awarded two competition points.

Since then, the pitch has sufficiently drained to allow rugby to resume in safe conditions.
So France vs Wales and South Africa vs England will go ahead as scheduled.

In Rugby League: It’s official! A festival of Rugby League returns to Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas in 2025. Bigger, Bolder and Better.
 
Be there for all the action live in the sports and entertainment capital of the world on Saturday 01 March next year, via a direct charter flight and special travel packages on-sale now via “Trip A Deal”.

 And the games are:
·       Canberra Raiders vs New Zealand Warriors
·       Penrith Panthers vs Cronulla Sutherland-Sharks
·       Wigan Warriors vs Warrington Wolves from Super League
·       Australian Jillaroos vs England Women
 
In Football: In the first EURO2024 semifinal in Germany this morning;

Spain 2-1 France so Kylian Mbappe and Les Bleu have fallen!
 
Our World Famous tip for the second semifinal tomorrow: England to fishnchips the Netherlands.
 
And in the Copa América 2024 semis in the US: Argentina to scorch Canada and Colombia to undercook Uruguay.   
 
At Wimbledon: Top-seed Jannik Sinner was treated by a trainer and left the court for more treatment, before losing to Daniil Medvedev 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 in the Wimbledon Men’s quarterfinals yesterday.
 
The fifth-seed Medvedev will take on defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinals for the second consecutive year. 

Alcaraz, the No. 3 seed, took a bit of time to get going in his quarterfinal, but once he did, there was no stopping the Spanish teen star in a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 12 seed American, Tommy Paul.
 
In the NBA: Watch out for the next big thing – 17 year-old Cooper Flagg stole the show in a scrimmage against future NBA Hall of Famers in Team USA preparing for the Paris Olympic Games.
 
Flagg is expected to be Numero Uno in the NBA Draft 2025.
 
In Combat Sports: Following the cancelation of their UFC303 main event fight on 29 June, a new date could be on the horizon for Conor McGregor versus Michael Chandler - and it may well be sooner than anticipated.
 
Chandler has taken to social media to tease that a rescheduled fight against the mad Irishman could take place at the Las Vegas Sphere - UFC event on 14 September.

And in the Paris Olympic Games: The 100M Women’s sprint World Champion – USA Track & Field star, Sha'Carri Richardson is glowing in gold for Vogue's August 2024 digital cover - photographed by Luis Alberto Rodriguez wearing a bright Ralph Lauren Collection bodysuit and skirt in the starting position on a track, with gold Nike sneakers and her signature long, decorated nails.
 
Richardson had to sit out the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics after she tested positive for THC, a chemical found in marijuana. 
 
She opened up in an accompanying interview about her preparation, "Most people, only think of track every four years. The Olympics, that's all there is - those few seconds on TV. But for me, track is my life on a day-to-day basis. Everything I do - what I eat, what I drink, if I stay up too late - it's all reflected on the track. Every choice. That's what the world doesn't see."
 
You go girl!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 08 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 09 July 2024 where it is clear and a freezing 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Australia versus Samoa kicks off the Paris Olympics Mens Rugby 7s ahead of the Opening Ceremony on Thursday 25 July at 1.30AM where a full house of 69,000 fans are expected in Stade de France.

Paris Olympic Games Rugby 7s Men on Thursday 25 July:

• 1.30am Australia vs Samoa
• 2am Argentina vs Kenya
• 2.30am France vs USA
• 3am Fiji vs Uruguay
• 3.30am Ireland vs South Africa
• 4am New Zealand vs Japan
• 5am Australia vs Kenya
• 5.30am Argentina vs Samoa
• 6am France vs Uruguay
• 6.30am Fiji vs USA
• 7am Ireland vs Japan
• 7.30am New Zealand vs South Africa

In Rugby League NRL: Jason Ryles has been appointed the Parramatta Eels next Head Coach on a four-year deal following the conclusion of the 2024 season.
 
Ryles is currently an assistant coach at the Melbourne Storm.

In Football: The Uruguay-USA game in the group stage of Copa América, drew 3.8 million viewers, the best audience on record for any Copa América game on English-language TV in the USA.

Copa América is averaging 1.1 million viewers per game across Fox, FS1 and FS2 to date. That is expected to lift for the semifinals Argentina vs Canada and Colombia vs Uruguay.  
 
Fox Sports is also seeing a 31% uptick for the UEFA EURO2024, ahead of the semifinals where Spain tackles France and England takes on the Netherlands.  
 
At Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic may have looked vulnerable in a rocky first week at the All England Club, after undergoing knee surgery on a torn meniscus in his right knee.

But the Serb warrior signaled that he is deadly serious about challenging for another Wimbledon title, as he convincingly beat No.15 seed Holger Rune 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 yesterday evening.
 
Meanwhile 21-year-old defending champion Carlos Alcaraz advanced into the quarter-finals after overcoming Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: "Only three athletes are representing Afghanistan," said Atal Mashwani, the spokesman of the Taliban government's sports directorate. "Currently, in Afghanistan girls' sports have been stopped," he told Agence France-Presse.
 
Afghanistan's Taliban government does not recognise the three female athletes who will represent the country at the Paris Olympic Games this month.

The International Olympic Committee has invited a squad of six Afghan athletes - three women and three men, in consultation with Afghanistan's largely exiled national Olympic committee.

And in Combat Sports: Former UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold broke the stereotype when he began dating singer and actress, Demi Lovato. Rockhold also recently revealed that they got matching tattoos on their first date, but they broke up five months later.
 
And er the tattoos? That’s a wrap peeps!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 07 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Monday morning 08 July 2024 where it is cloudy and cold at 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Taniela Tupou, Filipo Daugunu and Tom Wright all crossed for tries as Joe Schmidt’s reign as Wallabies coach got off to a flying start in front of 35,945 fans in Sydney on Saturday night, with a hard-fought 25-16 win over Warren Gatland’s Wales, who slumped to their eighth straight loss.
 
In other games around the world:  France 28-13 Argentina, Canada 12-73 Scotland, Chile 22-17 Hong Kong, USA 20-22 Romania, the Wallaroos swamped Fijiana 5-64, the New Zealand All Blacks edged England 15-16 thanks to another try by flying Fijian Crusader scoring machine Sevu Reece, while Damien McKenzie was pinged for smiling too long!
 
And South Africa flipped Ireland 20-27, Japan jinxed the Maori All Blacks 14-26, the Flying Fijians beat Georgia 12-21 and Manu Samoa beat Italy 25-33.
 
In rugby league NRL yesterday: NSW Blues Coach Michael Maguire has made two changes to the team that defeated the Maroons at the MCG in ORIGIN II, with NZ Warriors star Mitch Barnett to make his State of Origin debut off the bench for ORIGIN III, with Manly star Haumole Olakau’atu dropped.
 
In the EURO 2024 quarter finals in Germany: The Netherlands 2-1 Turkiye after England beat Switzerland 3-5 on penalties after they finished locked one all after extra time.
 
So it’s Spain vs England and France vs Netherlands in the semifinals starting on Wednesday morning.
 
At Wimbledon: American Coco Gauff’s hopes of winning Wimbledon were dashed yesterday when the No 2 seed was beaten in straight sets by compatriot Emma Navarro 6-4 6-3 on Center Court, with the No 19 seed now into her first grand slam quarter final. 
 
The top three women’s seeds are all out, as well as both of last year’s finalists. 

That leaves 2022 champion Elena Rybakina as a clear favourite to win her second title on Saturday. Rybakina is one of only two top-10 seeds remaining in the women's singles draw.

French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini, who is seeded seventh, will face Navarro in the quarter-finals.
And in Combat Sports: Nate Diaz beat Jorge Masvidal by unanimous decision in their boxing clash over the weekend. However, it was the mad Irishman, Conor McGregor who cashed in big time, betting US$500,000 on Diaz and winning a cool US$1.6Million easy money!
 
In Super Netball: The Adelaide Thunderbirds downed the NSW Swifts 48-60 in Sydney, shooting to top place on the Super Netball ladder.

Tongan international netball star Uneeq Palavi slotted into goal shooter in the second term, as the Swifts looked for strength and creativity under the post.

Palavi had her work cut out for her against the Thunderbirds defence, but finished with some razzle-dazzle off the post with 10 goals at 71% from her 27 minutes on court.

After the match, Palavi said her side put up a ‘real fight’ and spoke about the challenge of playing against the world’s best defender, “Coming against MVP Shamera Sterling-Humphrey was pretty nerve-wracking but I didn’t let her get into my head too much.”

Earlier in the day, West Coast Fever defeated the Melbourne Vixens 67-68 in a thriller at John Cain Arena, creating a logjam at the top of the Super Netball ladder.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: Australia's greatest women's basketballer Lauren Jackson has been selected for a fifth Olympics, 12 years after her last Games in London.
 
Now 43 and a mother-of-two, the power forward made her Australian debut 27 years ago and was part of Australian teams that medaled at all four Olympics between 2000 and 2012.

A four-time MVP in the United States WNBA, Jackson retired in 2016 with a persistent knee injury, but returned two years ago in a bid to make one last Olympic Games.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 27 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 01 November 2024.
 
Happy Diwali & happy birthday Wylie Clarke!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is a beautiful 22 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Netball: A completely different Diamonds turned up in Melbourne on Wednesday night and showed why they are ranked the world’s best, with a dominant 63-50 win over arch rivals New Zealand, in the final Constellation Cup Test.
 
In doing so, Australia avoided a historic series whitewash after being blown off the court by the Silver Ferns in their opening three Tests.

In Rugby Union: Our world famous tips for all the Tests this weekend - Ireland to happydiwali the Australian Wallabies on Friday, the Flying Fijians to kalamazoo Scotland at Murrayfield and England to pakapaka the All Blacks at Twickenham.
 
In Rugby League: Our world famous tips for the Pacific Championships Round 3: Tonga to happydiwali the New Zealand Kiwis on Saturday at Go Media Stadium, Auckland, and in the Pacific Bowl: The Papua New Guinea Kumuls to bananarama the Cook Islands Aitu on Sunday in Port Moresby.
 
In the NBA: The Denver Nuggets took down the Brooklyn Nets 139-144 in overtime, marking back-to-back overtime games on the road, after they beat Toronto on Tuesday.

Nikola Jokic continued his epic start to the season with a 29-point, 18-rebound, 16-assist treble double — the 150th of the three-time MVP career — while Russell Westbrook shut down his critics, added 22 points and five assists in 20 minutes off the bench.

In the MLB World Series: The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a stunning fightback to beat the New York Yankees and clinch the World Series with a dramatic come-from-behind 7-6 win.

On a night of spellbinding drama at Yankee Stadium in New York, the Dodgers sealed their eighth Major League Baseball Championship title, after recovering from 5-0 down for a 4-1 series victory.

The Yankees, who had kept the series alive with an 11-4 rout in game four on Tuesday, had looked poised to take the series back to Los Angeles for game six, after home runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and Giancarlo Stanton.

But a catastrophic fifth innings by the Yankees, saw the Dodgers tie the score at 5-5.

Although the Yankees regained the lead in the sixth inning, the Dodgers hit back in the eighth to claim what turned out to be a winning 7-6 lead.

It’s “Showtime” sports fans, and that’s a wrap!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 06 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 06 July 2024 where it is clear and 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union Test rugby this weekend: The Flying Fijians beat Georgia 12-21 early this morning thanks to their tough forwards and sparkling backs. Samoa beat Italy 25-33 in Apia Park yesterday.
 
Later today Fijiana XV to fujitsu the Wallaroos at 5.55pm, before the New Zealand All Blacks enzo England, followed by the Wallabies walloping Wales.
 
In rugby league NRL games yesterday: Brisbane really needed to win this one last night, but when it really mattered it was Penrith who came up with the big plays at Suncorp Stadium.
 
Kevin Walters men led 6-4 at halftime but didn’t trouble the scoreboard in the second half as the three-time reigning premiers showed their class with a gutsy 14-6 win, leaving the Broncos Top 4 chances on life support.

And in Coffs Harbour the Gold Coast Titans upset the Cronulla Sharks 20-16.
 
Today we tip: The Bulldogs to woolaroo the NZ Warriors at Accor Stadium, the Storm to woolarootoo Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval and the Cowboys to malooloobah Manly in Townsville.
 
In football the EURO 2024 quarter finals in Germany this morning: Spain are through after beating Germany 1-2 with midfielder Mikel Merino heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra time.
 
In the second quarter final, France pipped Portugal 3-5 on penalties after the teams were locked nil all after extra time. Bye bye Ronaldo.
 
Tomorrow, we tip England to swizzle Switzerland and the Netherlands to troppo Turkiye.
 
At Wimbledon: Carlos Alcaraz mimicked Jude Bellingham’s celebration after fighting back against Frances Tiafoe in a five-set epic.
 
The defending champion was in real danger of exiting in the third round as he trailed the American 1-2. But in a game sprinkled with some salivating shots and powerful serves, it was the Spaniard who got the edge 5-7 6-2 4-6 7-6 6-2.

Meanwhile, Emma Raducanu moved into the last-16 with an easy straight-sets win over Maria Sakkari in a Centre Court match which reminded the British public why they fell in love with her.
 
Sakkari is the No.9 seed at Wimbledon and a tricky prospect for the best, let alone a player currently ranked 135th in the world, except Raducanu is no normal world No.135. 

And in Combat Sports: "Exercising my authority as President of the WBC, I am hereby expelling Ryan Garcia from any activity with our organization. We reject any form of discrimination. I fear for Ryan’s well-being as he has declined multiple attempts for our help with mental health and substance abuse,"

WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman expels troubled boxer Ryan Garcia on his X page.
 
In Sports Biz: The Uruguay-USA game in the group stage of Copa América, drew 3.8 million viewers the best audience on record for any Copa América game on English-language TV in the US.
 
It’s also the best soccer audience on record outside of a World Cup game.

Copa América is averaging 1.1 million viewers across Fox, FS1 and FS2 to date, up around 48% from the same period in 2016. Fox Sports is also seeing a 31% uptick for the UEFA Euros just ahead of the quarterfinal round.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: the US Olympic Trials for gymnastics, swimming, diving and track & field from June 15-30 averaged 2.9 million viewers across NBC and USA Network, up 58% from the same coverage in 2021 ahead of the Tokyo Games.
 
NBC in prime time averaged 3.9 million viewers, up 24% from 3.2 million in 2021.
 
Last Sunday, US Track & Field Trials averaged 4.5 million viewers, as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a world record in the 400M hurdles.
 
That helped the eight nights of the Track & Field Trials on NBC to an average of 4.5 million viewers, up 38% from the 2021 trials, which averaged 3.2 million.

Meanwhile, the latest report on pollution levels in the River Seine – site of the Opening Ceremony and the Triathalon, confirmed the river was still unfit for swimming with levels of E.Coli — an indicator of fecal matter — was 10 times acceptable levels, according to AFP.
 
President Macron and the Mayor of Paris have said that they will swim in the river before the Olympic Games to show that it is safe!
 
Aha but what if Monsieur Macron is no longer le President?
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 05 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 05 July 2024 where it is partly cloudy 24 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Our world famous tips for all the Test rugby this weekend: Fijiana XV to fujitsu the Wallaroos, the Wallabies to wallop Wales, New Zealand to enzo England, Fiji to gringo Georgia, France to duponto Argentina, South Africa to irk Ireland, Samoa to samosa Italy, Canada to skippykangaroo Scotland, Chile to bongochili Hong Kong, USA to uzo Romania and the Maori All Blacks to judo Japan.
 
In rugby league: Latrell Mitchell was the star for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in their 32-16 win over the Parramatta Eels at CommBank Stadium last night.
 
Fresh from his heroics in ORIGIN II, onlookers could’ve been forgiven for thinking Mitchell was wearing the sky blue.

Put simply, South Sydney’s fullback was everywhere.

And our world famous tips for the other NRL games today: Cronulla Sharks to googaloo Gold Coast Titans in Coffs Harbour and the Brisbane Broncos to poopooroo Penrith Panthers at Suncorp Stadium.
 
And in football: Our world famous tips for the EURO 2024 Last 8 quarter finals in Germany starting tomorrow morning: Spain to googaloo Germany, Portugal to portorico France, England to swizzle Switzerland and the Netherlands to troppo Turkiye.
 
At Wimbledon: Young Scot wild card, Jacob Fearnley pushed Serbian legend, Novak Djokovic over four hard-fought sets, for his second round win at Wimbledon yesterday.
 
'Jacob made me earn my win. The match deserved to go to a fifth set – but I'm very glad it didn't.
 There were challenging conditions today. Very, very windy. Not easy to find the right tempo and the right rhythm on the ball,” Djokovic said.

“I'm still a little bit rusty on the movement, but I don't worry about reinjuring my knee,” he added.

In the Paris Olympic Games: The US Olympic Team isn't leaving their safety in the hands of the French. They are working closely with the US State department, taking 70 agents over to France to support them on the ground.
 
These agents will be stationed within all sports American athletes are competing in.

Some will be embedded within teams for team sports, while others will be constantly present at facilities for individual athletes wanting to train at any time of the day or night.

And in Combat Sports: Youtuber cum fake boxer, Jake Paul has lined up Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. as an alternative opponent if his controversial fight with Mike Tyson doesn't go ahead.
 
Chavez Jr. 38, previously held the WBC World Middleweight title from 2011 to 2012.
He has won 53 of his professional fights, drawing one and losing six. 

In Sports Biz: LA Lakers rookie Bronny James signed a fully guaranteed contract, according to ESPN, the same day his father, LeBron, also agreed to a massive US$104Million extension to stay in Los Angeles.
 
Bronny, 19, signed a four-year, US$7.9M contract worth US$1.2M in the first year, escalating each year to the final year at US$2.48M for the 2027-28 season.

In LA it’s all about who you know, you know.

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 04 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 04 July 2024 where it is cloudy 24 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Happy Independence Day USA!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The July Test window starts this weekend with the Wallabies vs Wales, New Zealand vs England, Fiji vs Georgia, France vs Argentina, South Africa vs Ireland, Samoa vs Italy, Canada vs Scotland, Chile vs Hong Kong, USA vs Romania, Japan vs Maori All Blacks and poor Tonga playing marbles under the mango tree.
 
In rugby league: Our world famous tips for the NRL games this weekend: The Parramatta Eels to chilisauce South Sydney Rabbitohs at CommBank Stadium. Cronulla Sharks to googaloo Gold Coast Titans in Coffs Harbour and the Brisbane Broncos to poopooroo Penrith Panthers at Suncorp Stadium.
 
On Saturday: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs to woolaroo the NZ Warriors at Accor Stadium, Melbourne Storm to woolarootoo Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval and North Queensland Cowboys to malooloobah Manly Sea Eagles in Townsville.

And in football: The EURO 2024 Last 8 quarter finals in Germany starting on Friday: Spain vs Germany, Portugal vs France, England vs Switzerland and Netherlands vs Turkiye.
 
At Wimbledon: Naomi Osaka was sent crashing out of Wimbledon in the second round overnight by America's Emma Navarro in a one-sided contest. Osaka, playing her first Wimbledon since 2019, went down 6-4, 6-1 on Centre Court in less than an hour. 
 
Meanwhile, Nick Kyrgios will bounce from the commentary box on to the grass courts at Aorangi Park for a hit out with seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic.
 
The Australian said on ESPN during the Serbian’s dominant first round win that he would be hitting with the superstar he once used to ridicule on social media, and who beat him in four sets in the 2022 Wimbledon final, but has now formed a bromance with.

“Hitting with Novak tomorrow on his day off. Feel like a little kid again. Feeling excited. Long way back from this surgery,” he posted on social media.

In the Paris Olympic Games: The rugby 7s competition at the Paris Olympic Games 2024 will actually kick off before the Olympic Games officially starts.
 
Pool games will be played from Wednesday through Friday, with the finals on Saturday after the official opening ceremony.
 
In Combat Sports: Suspended boxer Ryan Garcia revealed that he 'finally' has a girlfriend before posting pictures with a mystery woman on his X account. 
 
Garcia, 25, is currently serving a year-long suspension from the New York State Athletic Commission after testing positive for performance enhancing drug Ostarine, before his dominant upset over Devin Haney on 20 April. 
 
While his boxing career is on pause, Garcia's dating life remains active, as he claims: 'I finally got a girlfriend that’s dope.'

In Sports Biz: It’s all about timing folks, so when the iron is hot you strike!

The Boston Celtics majority owners have put the newly crowned NBA Champions up for sale, just two weeks after the Celtis won a new NBA record 18th title.

Talk about surprise! At the Celtic’s 21 June championship parade through the city of Boston, the owner said that “it feels like we’ve got more to do.”

Geez mate, many Boston Celtics fans are still partying!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 03 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 03 July 2024 where it is cloudy 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The British Women’s rugby 7s team has been slammed by feminists, led by Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and fellow British Olympic team members to Paris, for posing in lingerie.
 
In rugby league: NRL games tomorrow - Parramatta Eels vs South Sydney Rabbitohs, 7:50pm AEST at CommBank Stadium. On Friday: Cronulla Sharks vs Gold Coast Titans, 6pm in Coffs Harbour, Brisbane Broncos vs Penrith Panthers, 8pm at Suncorp Stadium.
 
And in football – EURO 2024 results this morning: Netherlands 3-0 Romania and in an upset Austria 1-2 Turkiye.
 
Switzerland, Germany, England, Spain, France and Portugal are already into the quarters; now joined by Netherlands and Turkiye.
 
In Sports Biz: July 01 every year marks the payment of serious money in ongoing salary deferrals for several former MLB stars including:

• · Bobby Bonilla who receives US$1.2Million annually from the New York Mets from 2000 until 2035, plus a second deferral agreement with the Orioles at US$500,000 each year from 2004-2028.
• Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. will receive the final US$3.6M from a 16-year deferral agreement with the Reds.
• Manny Ramirez will receive US$2M from the Red Sox as part of a 16-year deferral pact running through 2026.
• Chris Davis will receive US$9.1M from the Orioles as part of deferrals contained within his prior US$161M contract. According to Spotrac, Davis has another US$40M due from the team between now and 2037. 

Some of these payments are well in excess of the 2024 salaries of many current MLB stars.
Many more deferral payments are forthcoming from current contracts, which provide short-term financial flexibility for teams and longer-term security for players. 

All of these contracts, however, pale in comparison to the US$680Million in total deferrals for Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani. The Japanese baseball phenom agreed to set aside US$68Million of his US$70M annual salary to help keep his new team competitive, and he will be paid that money instead between 2034–2043.

At Wimbledon: Andy Murray has withdrawn from Wimbledon due to an ongoing back injury. His game was scheduled to yesterday evening, the latest possible slot on Centre Court, to give the British tennis star a chance of faking it, but it was not to be.

Meanwhile, No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic pulled off a miraculous return, defeating Vit Kopriva, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in his first match since undergoing surgery on his right knee.

In the Paris Olympic Games: American teenage sprint sensation, Quincy Wilson is set to become the youngest ever US male track Olympian after the 16-year-old has reportedly been picked in the 4×400M relay team for the Olympic Games in Paris.
 
Wilson’s selection comes after a brilliant debut at the US Olympic Trials last week, where he twice broke the Under-18 400M world record of 44.59 seconds in the semifinals on Sunday, two days after he initially broke the record with a time of 44.66.

In Combat Sports: Alex Pereira and Jiri Prochazka scored huge salaries at UFC303 with the Brazilian Pereira banking US$3Million plus one of the largest fight bonuses in UFC history, with Dana White awarding Pereira US$303,000 for his successful UFC Light Heavyweight title defence.
 
Czech fighter Prochazka received a career-best US$1M pay day.
 
Finally, the BBC has been slammed for posting “Misstiano Penaldo” as the highlight tag of Cristiano Ronaldo’s missed penalty kick in their quarter final against Slovenia yesterday.
 
“Misstiano Penaldo” – that’s hilarious!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 01 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 2nd July 2024.

In Rugby Union: The New South Wales Waratahs have signed former Flying Fijians Head Coach Simon Raiwalui to their newly created position of Director of Performance until at least the end of 2027.
 
So has Raiwalui left World Rugby already?
 
In rugby league: Former Wallabies Mark Nawaqanitawase and Carter Gordon have been granted early releases from their Rugby Australia contracts, to join their respective NRL Clubs this season, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
 
Nawaqanitawase signed a two-year deal to join the Sydney Roosters in 2025, while Gordon also put pen to paper on a two-year contract to join the Gold Coast Titans on A$600,000 a year from next season.

Nawaqanitawase’s release won’t become official until after his Paris Olympic Games Rugby 7s final on 27 July.

And in football – EURO 2024 results this morning: France 1-0 Belgium and Portugal beat Slovenia three nil on penalties after extra time. Our world famous tips for EURO2024 games tomorrow: Netherlands to ribeye Romania and Austria to roast Turkiye.
 
Switzerland, Germany, England, Spain are already into the quarters; now joined by France and Portugal.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: One of the most recognisable and decorated players in world rugby, Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, has announced she will retire from international rugby after the Paris Olympics.
 
Winger Woodman-Wickliffe has played for both the Black Ferns and Black Ferns 7s teams, and has two Rugby World Cup titles, two Rugby World Cup 7s titles, and Olympic gold and silver medals to her name, among multiple other accolades.

Wimbledon starts today, with the All England Club raising their prize money by 11.9% to a record US$64Million. 
 
Leading this year’s field is a rising wave of young stars including 2023 Wimbledon Men’s Champion Carlos Alcaraz (21 years old), top men’s seed Jannik Sinner (22), and top women’s players Iga Świątek (23), Coco Gauff (20), and Qinwen Zheng (21). 

In Combat Sports: In the wake of the recent horrific terrorist attack in Dagestan that saw gunmen open fire on churches, synagogues, and police posts, killing 15 police officers and four civilians, including one Orthodox priest, Russian armed forces have raided former UFC superstar and Putin poster boy, Khabib Nurmagomedov’s gym as part of their investigations.
 
The NBA’s 2024 free agency period officially started yesterday, with a number of big names already on the move, but Teams cannot officially sign them to contracts until 2.01am Saturday.

So who’s moving:

• Paul George has left the Clippers to sign a four-year US$212Million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers according to ESPN.
• Veteran point guard Chris Paul is off to San Antonio for US$11M for one year after the Warriors waived the 39-year-old on Monday morning.
• James Harden won’t test free agency and will reportedly sign a two-year, US$70M deal to stay with the Los Angeles Clippers.
• LeBron James has opted out of his contract with the Lakers, declining a US$51.4M option, but is expected to agree to a new contract that could create financial flexibility to help the team target more players to bring to LA.

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 01 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Monday morning 01 July 2024 where it is cloudy and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: On the sidelines of the Special General Meeting of the Fiji Rugby Union in Suva on Saturday, it was revealed that every player in the Flying Fijians squad at the Rugby World Cup 2023 in France was paid F$169,000 in allowances, including a small bonus for making the quarterfinals.
 
WOW, wow and wow! That’s a dream come true for all Pacific Island rugby players.
 
As Bob Dylan once sang, “Times they are a changing!”
 
In rugby league: The Sydney Roosters ORIGIN II stars - Angus Crichton, Spencer Leniu, Connor Watson and Lindsay Collins backed up to deliver an impressive 40-6 win over Wests Tigers, to celebrate Trent Robinson’s 300th game as an NRL coach.
 
While Benji Marshall’s pride had two players sent to the sin bin.

In other NRL games yesterday: The Dragons zapped the Dolphins 0-26 in Illawarra, no in Kograh Oval and the Cowboys 16-6 the Panthers in Sydney.
 
And in football – EURO 2024 results this morning: Slovakia 1-2 England in extra time, Spain 4-1 Georgia. Our world famous tips for other EURO2024 games:  France to Mbappo Belgium, Portugal to slacko Slovenia, Netherlands to ribeye Romania and Austria to roast Turkiye.
 
Switzerland and Germany are already into the quarters; now joined by England and Spain.
 
In the Paris Olympic Games: “What a ride! My Olympic journey has come to an end, and with it, my Australian rugby career,” Michael Hooper said in a statement via social media yesterday, after missing out on selection for the Mens Australian rugby 7s team to the Paris Olympics.
 
Hooper – now 32, holds the record for the most caps as Australia Captain, played 125 Tests — 69 of them as skipper of the Wallabies.

In Combat Sports: Brazilian Alex Pereira has re-established himself as the man to beat in the UFC Light Heavyweight division, flattening Jiri Prochazka in a stunning second-round knockout to end their UFC303 clash in Las Vegas in explosive fashion.
 
Prochazka, who boasted 26 knockouts of his own heading into yesterday’s fight, was no match for the champion.

And a bit of US Women’s Basketball trivia for you – did you know that there are 42 out LGBTQ+ players in the WNBA?

And there could be another new addition, after Las Vegas Aces star Rookie Kate Martin introduced her “gorgeous, stunning and perfect” girlfriend on social media.

Oh so sweet!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 83 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 30 June 2024 where it is clear and 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Results from the opening round of the World Rugby Under-20 Championship in Cape Town: France 49-12 Spain, Wales 34-41 New Zealand, Ireland 55-15 Italy, Australia 35-11 Georgia, Los Pumitas 21-40 England and the Junior Springboks 57-7 Fiji.
 
In rugby league: Parramatta Eels flying teenage Wing, Blaize Talagi was denied what looked to be a certain try by the Bunker, with the decision costing the Eels crucial points against the Newcastle Knights who won 34-26 and Blaize his hat trick denied.
 
In other NRL games yesterday: The Sharks 14-15 the Bulldogs, the NZ Warriors 32-16 Broncos in Auckland and the Storm 16-6 Raiders at AAMI Park.
 
Our tips for today - the Dolphins to drongo the Dragons in Illawarra, the Cowboys to poopoo the Panthers out in West Sydney somewhere and Wests Tigers to wallaroo the Sydney Roosters at Allianz Stadium.
 
And in football – the EURO 2024 Round of 16: Switzerland 2-0 Italy and Germany 2-0 Denmark.
 
Tomorrow - Slovakia to slacko England and Spain to spank Georgia.
 
In the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup: India held their nerve to pull off a sensational seven-run win over South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup in Barbados, ending a 11-year wait for a major title.
 
Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah were the heroes for India after Heinrich Klassen’s assault on Axar Patel tilted the match firmly in South Africa’s favour. 

Earlier, Virat Kohli anchored the Indian innings as wickets tumbled at the other end, guiding India to a winning score of 176 for seven. 
 
In Sports Biz: During the 2022–2023 season, the Big Five European Football Leagues generated a record US$20.9Billion in revenue, according to Deloitte’s 2024 Annual Review of Football Finance.
 
That total was up $2.46 billion (14%) over the previous season with: Premier League @ US$7.4Billion, Bundesliga @ US$4.1B, La Liga @ US$3.7B, Serie A @ US$3B and Ligue 1 @ US$2.5B.
 
Broadcasting was the greatest source of revenue for each league, with sponsorship and commercial dollars coming in second, and match-day sales third.

In the NBA: LeBron James got his wish as the Los Angeles Lakers selected 19-year old son, Bronny with the 55th overall pick.

With the pick, Bronny and LeBron are set to become the first-ever father-son duo in the NBA at the same time.

In Combat Sports: Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua has only recently moved out of his Mother's north London flat to live on his own.
 
The former Olympic Champion, who has almost £100Million+ in the bank, has repeatedly praised his Mother for being 'an amazing woman'. 

AJ will face fellow Briton Daniel Dubois on 21 September at Wembley Stadium in London. 
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 82 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 29 June 2024 where it is clear and 25 degrees Celsius at 6am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The opening round of the World Rugby Under-20 Championship gets underway in Cape Town this weekend with 2023 winners France taking on tournament debutants Spain in Pool A.
 
The other Pool A match will see Wales play six-time champions New Zealand later in the day.
Ireland will face Pool B opponents Italy, while Australia take on Georgia, who impressed in last year’s competition.

In Pool C, Los Pumitas take on U20 Six Nations champions England, with the Junior Springboks up against Fiji.

In rugby league: Wayne Bennett has unloaded on the overall unfairness in the standard of NRL refereeing and the Bunker, while calling for a dramatic overhaul on punishment for foul play, including a major revamp of the sin bin and send-off rules.

“I have to stand up for the players and the game I have spent my whole life being a part of and loving.

“We can’t hide and pretend it is not a problem because it is a problem. And it is causing massive frustration, not just with the players and coaches, but the fans.

“What I want is fairness for every team,” the master Coach said in an interview with FOX.

Results for NRL games this weekend: The Sharks 14-15 the Bulldogs. Our tips for today - the NZ Warriors to brazillian the Broncos in Auckland, The Eels to knobbysnuts the Knights in Newcastle.
 
And in football – our world famous tips for the EURO 2024 Round of 16 starting on Sunday: Switzerland to switzo Italy, Germany to geronimo Denmark, Slovakia to slacko England, Spain to spank Georgia, France to Mbappo Belgium, Portugal to slacko Slovenia too, Netherlands to ribeye Romania and Austria to roast Turkiye.
 
In Combat Sports: While it's not the Conor McGregor return that was originally planned for UFC303, the Ultimate Fighting Championship made the most of a bad situation with the replacement UFC303 main event featuring Alex Pereira putting his belt on the line against former titleholder Jiri Prochazka.
 
Both men successfully made weight for the rematch of their highly entertaining 2023 fight, which saw the Brazilian claim his second UFC belt.

Pereira (10-2) has become a fan-favorite for his vicious knockouts and willingness to fight anyone. Since moving to light heavyweight, the Brazilian has put together three straight wins over Jan Blachowicz, Prochazka and Jamahal Hill. 
 
In Sports Biz: Nike delivered more bad news yesterday, reporting US$12.6Billion in revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter, down 2% from the comparable period a year ago and US$51.4B for the full year, up 1%.

Net income was much more positive, earnings rising 45% in the quarter to US$1.5B, and by 12% over the full year to US$5.7B.

A continuation of a three-year, US$2B cost-cutting program that has included multiple rounds of layoffs contributed to the better earnings results 

Nike shares fell by more than 11% in post-market trading on Thursday, having already fallen by nearly 12% this year, contrasting sharply against a resurgence in companies such as Foot Locker, Adidas, and Dick’s Sporting Goods. 

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 81 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 28 June 2024 where it is overcast and a chilly 24 degrees Celsius at 6am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: “I’ve never been so unprepared. It’s a little bit daunting, to be honest,” new Wallabies Head Coach Joe Schmidt remains without a clear idea of his first team let alone a potential Captain, following a four-day camp in Brisbane and just nine days out from the opening Test against Wales in Sydney.
 
In rugby league: Our World Famous Tips for the NRL games this weekend: The Sharks to Bollywood the Bulldogs, the NZ Warriors to brazillian the Broncos in Auckland, The Eels to knobbysnuts the Knights in Newcastle, the Storm to chocolato the Raiders at AAMI Park and the Dolphins to drongo the Dragons in Illawarra.
 
And in football - the EURO 2024 Round of 16 starting on Sunday: Switzerland vs Italy, Germany vs Denmark, England vs Slovakia, Spain vs Georgia, France vs Belgium, Portugal vs Slovenia, Romania vs Netherlands and Austria vs Turkiye.
 
In Combat Sports: Now that Oleksandr Usyk has surrendered his IBF World Heavyweight boxing title to Daniel Dubois, and the winner of Dubois-Joshua is on course to fight the winner of Usyk-Fury II, it potentially presents Tyson Fury with a chance to fight for all four titles in 2025 again.
 
In Sports Biz: The estimated value of the four-year contract that young French basketball star, Zaccharie Risacher will be able to sign after being selected No. 1 overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA draft yesterday is US$57.2Million.

That’s up slightly from the US$55.2M that Victor Wembanyama signed for last year after the Spurs drafted him with the first pick.
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 80 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 27 June 2024 where it is clear and 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Although he does have the option of fighting for a place in the All Blacks squad, Blues No. 8 Hoskins Sotutu has alternative routes back to the Test arena.
 
The 14-cap All Black qualifies for Fiji through his father and England through his mother and, having earned his last Test cap in 2022, qualifies for both alternate countries next year after a three-year stand-down period.

In rugby league: The NSW Blues levelled the State of Origin series, after charging out to a record-breaking 34-0 halftime lead — the largest in ORIGIN history - on their way to a famous 38-18 win, in front of more than 90,000 fans at the MCG last night.
 
So ORIGIN III will be the decider at Suncorp Stadium.

And in football - the latest EURO 2024 results: England 0-0 Slovenia in Cologne and Denmark 0-0 Serbia in Munich, Slovakia 1-1 Romania in Frankfurt and Ukraine 0-0 Belgium in Stuttgart.
 
The last pool games today just completed: Georgia 2-0 Portugal at Gelsenkirchen and Czech Republic 1-2 Turkey in Hamburg.
 
In Combat Sports: After his BIG upset in Saudi Arabia last weekend, Aussie fighter Robert Whittaker is looking to make a quick turnaround by competing at UFC305 on 17 August in Perth, Western Australia as a backup for the main event UFC Middleweight headliner between reigning UFC Champion Dricus Du Plessis from South Africa and former two-time titleholder Kiwi-Nigerian Israel Adesanya.
 
In Sports Biz: ABC drew 7.7 million viewers for the Panthers 2-1 win over the Oilers in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night, reports SBJ.

That’s easily the best hockey audience of any kind in the US since Game 7 of the 2019 Final when Blues-Bruins drew an NHL-record 8.9 million viewers on NBC. 

ABC averaged 4.2 million viewers for the seven-game Panthers-Oilers series, up 58% from the five-game Golden Knights-Panthers series last year.

Across all of North America, Game 7 on Monday night drew 16.3 million viewers, marking the second-best NHL game on record. Also across North America, the seven-game Panthers-Oilers series averaged 8.8 million viewers, up 85% from last year. 

Only in the USA: After his 200M race at the US Athletics Olympic Games trial yesterday, Rapper Snoop Dogg was pulled over by officials from the US Anti-Doping Agency, but before they could test him Snoop Dogg rapped, “Who Am I? Drop it like it’s hot!” the crowd cheered and they let him go!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 26 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 30 October 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is a cool 21 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: Tests this weekend starts with Ireland hosting the Australian Wallabies on Friday, Scotland versus the Flying Fijians at Murrayfield and England out for revenge against the All Blacks at Twickenham. No Tonga and Samoa?
 
In Rugby League: Pacific Championships Round 3: New Zealand Kiwis vs Tonga on Saturday at Go Media Stadium, Auckland with just one change for Tonga - Sydney Roosters youngster Siua Wong added to the bench in place of Keaon Koloamatangi, who has left the squad to be with his partner, who is due to give birth. 

In the Pacific Bowl: Papua New Guinea Kumuls vs Cook Islands Aitu on Sunday 4pm at Santos National Football Stadium, Port Moresby.

PNG Kumuls skipper Rhyse Martin will miss the game due to personal reasons, replaced in the second row by Dan Russell. Judah Rimbu starts at Hooker. 

In Football: The Red Devils have moved quickly to settle on the man that they want to take charge, after the sacking of Erik10. 
 
Sporting Lisbon FC has confirmed an approach from Man U for their Head Coach, Ruben Amorim.
 
In doing so, they also revealed that the Portuguese's contract includes a €10Million transfer fee.
 
Should Amorim complete the move to Old Trafford, he would be the tenth Manager since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson - David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and the recently sacked Ten Hag have all had relatively short, unsuccessful spells, in charge.
 
In UFC: In the latest UFC rankings update, former No. 13 Khamzat Chimaev has jumped to No. 3, pushing Robert Whittaker down to No. 4.

So the Russian hit man sits below UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus Du Plessis, No. 1 contender Sean Strickland and No. 2 Israel Adesanya.

Chimaev has two options for his next fight: If Du Plessis rematches Strickland, Chimaev can fight for the No. 1 contender spot against Adesanya.

In the MLB World Series: No team has ever overcome a 0–3 deficit in the World Series, and the Yankees now face that daunting task.

Their struggles have been multifaceted, but the biggest issues stem from the lackluster performances of some of their star players.

The New York Yankees are just one loss away from a potentially humiliating outcome: being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

With the Dodgers securing wins in the first three games, including in game 3 last night in the Bronx 4-2.

It’s “Showtime” sports fans, and that’s a wrap!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 79 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 26 June 2024 where it is 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Former NRL, Fiji Bati and Fiji rugby union 7s star, Jarryd Hayne will not face a fourth trial over the alleged sexual assault of a woman on the night of the 2018 Grand Final.
 
This after the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on Tuesday it had determined another trial would not proceed.

Justice Deborah Sweeney, one of the judges who decided the appeal in Hayne’s favour two to one, had said that in light of “the history of this matter, to put the applicant on trial for a fourth time would not be in the interests of justice”.

Hayne’s first trial ended in a hung jury and he successfully appealed his convictions after the second trial.

So what’s the bet, Haynes seeks compensation from the NSW judiciary for their handling of his initial prosecutions!

In rugby league: Broncos NRL Premiership winner Gorden Tallis, is backing South Sydney to make one of the most improbable runs to the finals in NRL history.

The Rabbitohs lost nine of their first 10 games this season to sit dead last after Round 11, having sacked their coach Jason Demetriou.

But the Bunnies have since won four on the trot and with a 5-9 record they are 14th on the ladder and just two wins outside the top eight.

And in football - the latest EURO 2024 results: Albania 0-1 Spain, Croatia 1-1 Italy, Netherlands 2-3 Austria, France 1-1 Poland, England vs Slovenia in Cologne and Denmark vs Serbia in Munich – both these games at 8pm GMT.
 
The last pool games tomorrow starting at 5pm GMT: Slovakia vs Romania in Frankfurt. Ukraine vs Belgium in Stuttgart, Georgia vs Portugal at Gelsenkirchen and Czech Republic vs Turkey in Hamburg. Both these games at 8pm GMT.
 
In Combat Sports: Mexican boxer Moises Calleros has been given a four-year ban by the UK Anti-Doping Agency after he tested positive for cocaine following his loss to Galal Yafai at the O2 Arena in London on the undercard of a Anthony Joshua fight last year, but HELLO . . the Mexican died three months ago!

In Ice Hockey: The NHL capped one of its greatest season’s after the Panthers fought off one of the most improbable of Game 7 comebacks in the Stanley Cup Final, by the Oilers, who forced a Game 7 in Florida, home of the Panthers, after dropping the first three games of the series!

The finals series capped significant gains for the NHL - among them:
·       An average of 1.3 million US viewers per game for the first three rounds of the playoffs, up by 14% from a year ago and the best such figure since 1996.
·       Record-level attendance in the regular season of 22.56 million, with games on average played to 97% venue capacity. 
·       Another league record for annual revenue of US$6.2Billion, thanks to the record attendance total, plus gains in media and sponsorship.

And only in the USA: Legendary Rapper, Snoop Dogg ran a 200M exhibition race at the 2024 US Olympic Trials and recorded a time of 34.44secs, after which he was quoted telling journalists and fans, “For a 52-year-old, that ain’t bad.”
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 78 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 25 June 2024 where it is 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: China women and South Africa men secured the twelfth and final places in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 rugby 7s competitions after qualifying at the World Rugby 7s event in Monaco yesterday.
 
Hosts France and their superstar Antoine Dupont will start their Olympic campaign on 24 July in Pool C together with two-time Olympic champions Fiji, USA and debutants Uruguay.

SVNS league winners Argentina will face tough competition in Pool B against Australia, Samoa and Kenya while Pool A sees top seed New Zealand grouped with Ireland, Japan and South Africa.

In rugby league: A teenager has been charged by police for allegedly sending a threatening text to NRL referee Adam Gee.

The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield first reported the news as Gee received the message prior to the South Sydney Rabbitohs’ 22-12 win over the Broncos on 14 June.
 
And the Wests Tigers have beaten the Canberra Raiders 48-24 at Campbelltown Stadium to close Round 16 of the NRL season with a bang.
 
And in football - the latest EURO 2024 results: Switzerland 1-1 Germany in Frankfurt and Scotland 0-1 Hungary in Stuttgart. Today: Albania vs Spain in Dusseldorf and Croatia vs Italy in the Red Bull Arena, Leipzig with both games kicking off at 8pm GMT.
 
Tomorrow all games in GMT: Netherlands vs Austria in Berlin at 5pm, France vs Poland in Dortmund at 5pm, England vs Slovenia in Cologne and Denmark vs Serbia in Munich – both these games at 8pm.
 
In Combat Sports: Headlining UFC’s historic debut in Saudi Arabia yesterday, Robert Whittaker threw a massive spanner in the works, after upsetting the latest Dagestan star, Ikram Aliskerov with a stunning first round KO.

Despite accepting the fight on only a week’s notice – after Khamzat Chimaev withdrew injured – the Aussie fighter took less than two minutes to end the fight with a stunning KO.

In SportsBiz: In a soon-to-be announced one-of-a-kind sponsorship deal: French Open Tennis Champion Carlos Alcaraz is set to receive his own Nike logo along with a lucrative US$200Million contract.
 
That’s game, set and match Alcaraz!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 77 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 23 June 2024 where it is 25 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The Flying Fijians Drua 32-46 Barbarians at Twickenham this morning.
 
Congratulations Blues, for a comprehensive 41-10 win over the Chiefs at Eden Park last night, to easily win the Super Rugby Pacific 2024 Championship.
 
On the night, Akira Ioane, Hoskins Sotutu, Patrick Tuilpulotu, Harry Plummer and Caleb Clarke played themselves back into Razor’s first All Blacks squad.
 
Meanwhile at the Monaco 7s quarter-finals to qualify for the Paris Olympics rugby 7s – Samoa women are out, so: China v Paraguay, Uganda v Czechia, Kenya v Argentina and Poland v Hong Kong.
 
In the Men’s comp: South Africa v Uganda, Canada v Chile, Great Britain v Tonga and Spain v Hong Kong.
 
In rugby league: The Rabbitohs secured a crucial 16-0 win, in a scrappy clash against the Sea Eagles at Accor Stadium in Sydney last night to record four wins in-a-row.
 
Keaon Kolomatangi continues to impress, scoring in the closing stages of the clash, grounding a Damien Cook kick.

While Anthony Seibold’s Manly Seas Eagles had no joy versus the Rabbitohs, it was a special night for Fiji international Caleb Navale who made his NRL debut.

His Father, Eparama Navale played NRL for the Parramatta Eels in 1997-1998 and in the RLWC 2000 for the Fiji Bati.

And in football - the latest EURO 2024 results: Netherlands 0-0 France, Georgia 1-0 Czech Republic in Hamburg, Turkey 0-3 Portugal in Dortmund and Belgium 2-0 Romania in Cologne.
 
Tomorrow: Switzerland vs Germany in Frankfurt at 8pm GMT and Scotland vs Hungary in Stuttgart at 8pm GMT.
 
In Super Netball: During the week, Queensland Firebirds interim Coach, Katie Walker promised fans four wins from four games to end their troubled Super Netball season.
 
Walker is their third Coach in just three rounds, with one who lasted just one week before resigning.
In incredible scenes, Walker delivered on part one of that promise with the Firebirds heroic 78-70 win over West Coast Fever.

Goal shooter and MVP Donnell Wallam’s class under the post saw her leading the charge - her incredible long range shooting netting 57/67 goals, including nine super-shots, which lifted her teammates to new heights.

And the Adelaide Thunderbirds continued their hot run, demolishing the Melbourne Mavericks 41-67 in their biggest win of the season, to remain undefeated on their home court and rise to second on the Super Netball ladder.
 
In SportsBiz: Today’s media landscape is as uncertain as ever. Only one thing is constant: The number of customers who pay for TV access continues to decline big time.
 
Viewers some US TV companies lost between January and March 2024:
· Comcast @ 487,000
· Spectrum @ 405,000
· Dish TV @ 348,000
· YouTube TV @ 150,000

Resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly fees lost to the pay-TV business. 

Meanwhile, media companies continue to shell out billions of dollars for live sports. Recent sports media-rights deals and the percentage increases of their annual average values:
·       French Tennis Open @ US$65Million, up 435%
·       US College Football Play-offs @ US$1.3Billion, up 115%
·       NASCAR @ $1.1Billion, up 40%
·       NBA reported @ US$6.9Billion, up 155%

The NFL’s US$110Billion media contracts run through 2033, but the league can opt out at the end of this decade.

In the NBA: The Lakers are taking a big gamble with their new Head Coach, signing a four-year deal with JJ Redick last Thursday, according to ESPN.

The co-host of the “Mind the Game” podcast with Lakers star LeBron James, will make roughly US$8Million per season, according to The Athletic.

Redick has no coaching experience, most recently was an analyst for ESPN and called the NBA Finals.

Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka offered Redick the job on Thursday after being sold on his “ability to connect with players and his basketball IQ,” according to ESPN.

Which basically means, that LeBron gave the Lakers the green light to sign JJ!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 76 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Saturday morning 22 June 2024 where it is 22 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Our World Famous tip for the Super Rugby Pacific Final at 7.05pm tonight at Eden Park in Auckland is for Wallace Sititi to rumble Hoskins Sotutu, allowing for Cortez Ratima and Damian McKenzie to spark the Chiefs backs – at Centre Anton Lienert-Brown to school Reiko Ioane and the back three of Emoni Narawa, Etene Nanai-Seturo and Shaun Stevenson to bambino the Blues.
 
Meanwhile in Monaco – the final rugby 7s qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympics had to be re-jigged after Papua New Guinea Men’s and Women’s teams didn’t show!
 
Argentina Women beat Samoa 5-26 and Tonga Men lost 5-14 to Chile in their first Pool games.
 
In rugby league: Neither side deserved to lose last night, but in the end the Melbourne Storm were too good, with their halfback Jahrome Hughes proving the difference in beating the Dolphins 24-30 in a thrilling, end-to-end contest at Suncorp Stadium that cements the Storm top of the NRL ladder.
 
And in the words of his Coach and mentor Wayne Bennett: “He was very good.”

Five minutes after being injected into the game from the bench, Tevita Pangai Junior was placed on report for a late shot on Christian Welch.

Later in the game, he put a big shot on Trent Loeiro.

Speaking post game, James Graham said “Now every single forward in the NRL, when they come up against the Dolphins, are going to want to know where Tevita Pangai Junior is.”

And the latest EURO 2024 results: Slovakia 1-2 Ukraine, Poland 1-3 Austria and this morning Netherlands vs France are locked nil all in the second half.
 
Tomorrow: Georgia vs Czech Republic in Hamburg, Turkey vs Portugal in Dortmund and Belgium vs Romania in Cologne.
 
In Boxing: One day after he announced on social media that he had “officially retired,” Ryan Garcia has been suspended for one year by the New York State Athletic Commission, according to the New York Post.
 
Garcia, 25, will also have to forfeit the US$1Million he won from his majority decision win over WBC Super Lightweight Champion Devin Haney in April - which is now a no-contest.

In the WNBA: The first two WNBA matchups between rookie phenoms Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese did major business for the league—and generated significant controversy.
 
Round three on Sunday is poised to reach even higher levels. 

Clark’s Indiana Fever and Reese’s Chicago Sky will play Sunday afternoon in Illinois.

The average ticket price of US$271, according to TickPick, makes Sunday’s game the most expensive WNBA contest on record. 

Expectations are sky-high on TV as well, as the second Fever-Sky matchup just five days ago generated an average audience of 2.25 million viewers on CBS, representing the largest audience for the WNBA on any network in 23 years.

And in SportsBiz: The Pistons owe Monty Williams US$65Million for firing their Head Coach after just one season.
 
Only last summer, Detroit made Williams, at the time, the highest-paid Head Coach in the NBA with a US$78.5M contract.
 
But after they finished with a league-worst record of 14–68 in his first season, which included a 28-game losing streak - the longest in NBA history, they kicked his butt.
 
Painful oh so painful for the Pistons!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 75 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 21 June 2024 where it is 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The Super Rugby Pacific Final on Saturday night at Eden Park in Auckland sees the Blues and the Chiefs feature a galaxy of Maori and Pasifika stars.
 
For the Chiefs: 4. Jimmy Tupou 5. Tupou Vaa’i 6. Samipeni Finau 7. Luke Jacobson (C) 8. Wallace Sititi 9. Cortez Ratima 11. Etene Nanai-Seturo 12. Rameka Poihipi 13. Anton Lienert-Brown 14. Emoni Narawa and 15. Shaun Stevenson.

And the Blues Maori and Pasifika Islanders: 1. Ofa Tu'ungafasi 3. Marcel Renata 4. Patrick Tuipulotu (C) 6. Akira Ioane 7. Dalton Papali'i 8. Hoskins Sotutu, 11. Caleb Clarke, 12. AJ Lam, 13. Rieko Ioane, 14. Mark Tele'a and 15. Stephen Perofeta.

In rugby league: Even though he is yet to set foot in the Rabbitohs Heffron Park headquarters, South Sydney has completely flipped the script since Wayne Bennett was announced as their new Head Coach from 2025.

Bennet has been working the phones talking to interim Head Coach Ben Hornby and players like Latrell Mitchell, Cody Walker, Jack Wighton and Damien Cook, who are now completely different players.

Keaon Kolomatangi has also suddenly become one of the best middle forwards in the NRL.

In fact, since Bennett signed on for 2025, the Rabbitohs have won three straight games – prior to his appointment they were one from 10.

And Hornby was the Captain when Bennett smashed a 31-season title drought at the Dragons in 2010.

Amazing!

Latest EURO 2024 results: Scotland 1-1 Switzerland in Cologne, Slovenia 1-1 Serbia, Denmark 1-1 England and Spain 1-0 Italy.
 
Tomorrow: Slovakia vs Ukraine in Dusseldorf, Poland vs Austria in Berlin and Netherlands vs France in Leipzig at 8am Fiji time.
 
In SportsBiz: Viewership for the just completed NBA Finals were down 3% this year, while overall NBA playoff viewership was down 12%.
 
The five-game Celtics-Mavericks series averaged 11.3 million viewers across ABC and ESPN, down from 11.6 million for the five-game Nuggets-Heat last year.

The NBA is still expected to sign new media rights deals delivering a massive increase compared to the current deals, which end after next season.

In Boxing: “Mom has cancer... I’m being sued ... My supplements were tainted ... Going thru a divorce ... Devin asking for my win to be taken away ... I’m getting hit with everything. Boxing will be alright without me ... But it sucks as I was fun in the game ... And it was fun to punch people.
 
Y’all may catch me out and about but as far as boxing I don’t know.

There is so much corruption I’m over it ... I may do acting or singing ... I’ll still be training but I’m hurt and I’m done with it and everyone ... The sad part is I’m a great boxer ... And I entertain and knock people out ... I’m sad because I love boxing ... Praying for everyone and I hope everyone has a great life.”

“I’m officially retired,” Ryan Garcia letting off some steam.

In the NBA, well not just yet but soon, very soon: The world’s tallest teenager, 18-year-old Canadian Olivier Rioux was measured by Guinness this week at seven feet nine inches tall, or 236cm tall. He wears size 20 shoes.
 
Unsurprisingly, Rioux is a handy basketball player and has committed to go to college in the US and play for the Florida Gators.

Videos of the teen giant towering over opponents and dunking without jumping have gone viral.

Er . . WNBA make the most of Caitlin Clark while you can! The next great white hope is on his way!
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 74 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Thursday morning 20 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Video footage posted on social media from Churchill Park in Lautoka yesterday, shows Selestino Ravutaumada bursting through weak Australian defence for the Fiji Men’s 7s Team to score typical Ravutaumada long range tries in two trial games yesterday.
 
Iosefo Masi has been there before so – will they both be going to Paris?
 
Meanwhile, the World Rugby 7s Repechage Tournament in Monaco this weekend serves as the final qualification for the Paris Olympics. Women’s Teams: Argentina, China, Czechia, Hong Kong China, Kenya, Jamaica, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Samoa and Uganda.
 
And the Men’s Teams are: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Spain, Tonga and Uganda.
 
In rugby league: “If I had any doubts or I was scared, I wouldn’t pull on the Queensland jersey.” Maroons fullback Reece Walsh has vowed not to take a backward step in ORIGIN II next Wednesday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 
In EURO 2024 yesterday: Turkey 3-1 Georgia in Dortmund and Portugal 2-1 Czech Republic.
 
Today: Croatia 2-2 Albania in Hamburg, Germany 2-0 Hungary in Stuttgart and Scotland vs Switzerland in Cologne still to play.
 
 
In the NBA: The 2024 NBA Champions – Boston Celtic’s payroll of US$184Million ranked fourth, according to Spotrac, trailing only the Warriors, Clippers and Suns. 
 
As is often the case for newly minted champions, though, maintaining current pay levels is not an option.

Already, the Celtics have more than US$192M in contract obligations for next season. 
Star forward Jayson Tatum is eligible for a supermax contract extension that would pay him US$315M over five years, with teammate Jaylen Brown’s five-year, US$304M deal signed last summer, a new NBA record.

In UFC: Kiwi-Nigerian former UFC Champion Israel Adesanya is favored to become a UFC champion again.
 
Sportsbetting currently has Adesanya as a slight favorite in his upcoming fight against UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus du Plessis in UFC305 on 17 August in Perth, Western Australia.
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 73 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Wednesday morning 19 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The big questions to be answered at Churchill Park in Lautoka when Australia takes on the Fiji Men’s 7s Team over four trial games this week: Will Michael Hooper and Mark Waqanitawase make the cut for the Aussies?
 
And same with Selestino Ravutaumada and Iosefo Masi for Fiji – will they be going to Paris?
 
In rugby league: The Dolphins welcome a mid-season recruit into their starting 17, with Wayne Bennett unleashing former Bronco star and another Tongan tough guy, Tevita Pangai Junior, who will play his first NRL game of the year at Suncorp against the Storm on Friday night.
 
Remember the Dolphins only signed the Tongan tough guy after he was rejected by Craig Bellamy, following a stint in boxing.
 
Meanwhile, the Parramatta Eels have trimmed down the list of candidates for Head Coach to two, with Jason Demetriou and ex-Wallabies Coach, Michael Cheika knocked out of the running.
 
The Daily Telegraph reporting that either Josh Hannay or Jason Ryles will be Parramatta’s next coach from 2025 after progressing through to the next round of interviews.

It appears that Trent Barrett, who is currently leading the side in an interim role, will also likely miss out.
In EURO 2024 yesterday: England 1-0 Serbia, Romania 3-0 Ukraine, Belgium 0-1 Slovakia and Austria 0-1 France.
 
In other games today: Turkey vs Georgia in Dortmund at 5pm GMT and Portugal vs Czech Republic in Leipzig at 8pm GMT.
 
In the NBA Finals: Sixteen years after the Boston Celtics won their 17th NBA Championship, they grabbed a record-breaking 18th cruising to a 106-88 win over the Dallas Mavericks yesterday, to claim the NBA Finals series 4-1.

With it, the Celtics left the Los Angeles Lakers behind on 17 NBA titles.

Superstar Jaylen Brown was named Finals MVP, with 21 points, eight rebounds and six assists, while Jayson Tatum heavily involved as a scorer and playmaker, putting up 31 points to go with 11 assists.
 
In T20 International Cricket: Estonian cricketer Sahil Chauhan has shattered the record for fastest century in T20 International Cricket, finishing on 144 not out in just 27 deliveries against Cyprus.
 
Chauhan smacked 18 sixes during his onslaught, also a record in T20 International Cricket, helping Estonia chase down the 192-run target with 42 deliveries to spare.

Chauhan also bettered Chris Gayle’s record for quickest hundred in men’s T20s, with the West Indies icon passing the milestone in 30 deliveries during an Indian Premier League game against the Pune Warriors in 2013.

In the WNBA: One of the most catty rivalries in sports has another chapter.
 
In the Indiana Fever vs Chicago Sky game on Sunday, Caitlin Clark drove to the basket and got whacked in the head by who else - Angel Reese.

After the Fever closed out a 91-83 win, in which Clark scored 23 points on 7-for-11 shooting, along with eight rebounds and nine assists, she was asked what was going through her mind when Reese was called for a flagrant foul.

“What’s going through my mind? I need to make these two free throws. That’s all I’m thinking about. It’s just part of basketball. It is what it is,” Clark said.

Reese — who recorded her sixth straight double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds while adding five assists — did not think she did anything wrong.

“It’s a basketball play. I’m always going for the ball. Y’all are going to play that clip, what, 20 times before Monday,” Reese asked.

Ooh kitty, kitty cool it babe!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 72 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Tuesday morning 18 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Chiefs who would have caught the eyes of the All Blacks selectors with their performances against the Hurricanes: Emoni Narawa is playing like a man who had his Rugby World Cup robbed and is desperate to win it back.
 
The wing was an electric and serious handful for the Hurricanes.

Damian McKenzie stood up when it mattered as his perfect kicking off the tee for 15 points steered his side to victory.

McKenzie was composed and brilliant throughout the game for the Chiefs, and the way he controlled the game after their fast start, is very encouraging for his desire to start at 10 for the All Blacks.

Lastly, one of the players of the game was a barnstorming Wallace Sititi, who carried like a Spartan on the night. The Chiefs No. 8 made 150M, beating four defenders and still making 13 tackles.

There is plenty of back-row depth in the All Blacks, but Sititi is really special with the ball in hand.
In rugby league: Billy Slater has made two changes to his Maroons side that thumped NSW in ORIGIN 1, recalling two veterans.

Despite his starring role after coming from the bench in the early stages of the series opener, Selwyn Cobbo has been left out of ORIGIN II.

Eels back-rower J'Maine Hopgood is the other player to miss out, with Slater revealing the Eels gun had injured his back playing for his club.

Tongan tough guy Felise Kaufusi starts on the bench for the MCG clash, with Kurt Capewell named to replace Cobbo in a more traditional utility role, providing forward cover, while also able to play Centre.

In EURO 2024 yesterday: Jude Bellingham slotted home his first goal of EURO 2024 and the only goal of the game – a powerful header for England 1-0 Serbia.
 
In other games today: Romania 3-0 Ukraine in Munich, Belgium 0-1 Slovakia with the second half underway in Frankfurt and Austria vs France at 8pm GMT in Dusseldorf.
 
At the US Open: The putts kept dropping for popular Irishman Rory McIlroy at the US Open at Pinehurst N0. 2 North Carolina yesterday - one at the 12th from 22 feet, another on the short 13th.
 
After a hot streak of four birdies across a five-hole stretch, McIlroy stood two clear of Bryson DeChambeau at the 16th.
And then it all fell apart.
McIlroy missed a 30-inch putt at the 16th which DeChambeau, following in the group behind, parred.
 
McIlroy then parred on the 17th.
 
The 2011 US Open champion stood on the 18th tee and the 2020 US Open champion stood on the 17th. 
 
After Bryson DeChambeau parred the 17th, McIlroy hit his approach from a sandy lie, short of the 18th green.
 
He pitched it to 3 feet 9 inches of the hole, poised to take the championship, but McIlroy missed the putt.

Still with a chance to win, the Irishman tumbled to 5 under, one back from DeChambeau.

There is no hiding from it - three bogeys in his last four holes is a choke – big time.

McIlroy walked down the steps into the scoring room and then left without congratulating the 2024 US Open Champion, Bryson DeChambeau. 
 
And in Boxing: “I wanted the knockout,” he said. “I hurt him a couple of times, looked at my Dad and he said, ’What are you doing?” I said I was just having fun. 
 
“My corner said, ‘Do what you’re doing. If you want step on the gas or you can box and do what you want.’ “At the end of the day, I kept it clean, made him look silly and won easily,” said rising British star, Ben Whittaker after he beat the previously unbeaten Nigerian Ezra Arenyeka.

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 71 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Monday morning 17 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: And then there were two – emerging from their respective Super Rugby Pacific semifinals – where the Blues whacked the Brumbies 20-34 and the Chiefs caught the Hurricanes napping for an upset 30-19 win.
 
So who is going to stamp their mark on the finals and in Razor’s new-look All Blacks squad 2024 – Hoskins Sotutu or rising star, Wallace Sititi, the Chiefs outstanding No. 8?

Will it be incumbent All Blacks utility and Chiefs star, Damian McKenzie or the Blues Harry Plummer?  

In rugby league: NSW Blues Head Coach Michael Maguire has shaken up his squad for ORIGIN II, dropping Cameron McInnes and Nicho Hynes for Rabbitohs skipper Cameron Murray at lock and Isaah Yeo on the bench.
 
Mitchell Moses has been named in the No.7 jersey, while Latrell Mitchell is, as widely speculated, in at Centre, with Mitch Barnett replacing Matt Burton as 18th man.

In Super Netball: Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard netted a record 73 goals for West Coast Fever, in front of their largest ever crowd of 11,267 to lift her side to a gritty 78-71 win over the struggling NSW Swifts yesterday.
 
The Fever’s win ensures they reclaim second spot on the Super Netball ladder.

The Melbourne Mavericks kept their finals hopes alive as they piled on the pain for the Queensland Firebirds with a 73-61 victory at John Cain Arena.
 
While the Melbourne Vixens hung on for a thrilling 63-61 win over the Sunshine Coast Lightning.
 
Meanwhile, the Giants’ 2024 finals hopes are hanging by a thread after suffering a 42-57 loss to the Adelaide Thunderbirds in Sydney on Saturday night.
 
In Football: EURO 2024 results: Italy 2-1 Albania in Dortmund, Poland 0-2 Netherlands in Hamburg, Denmark 1-1 Slovenia in Stuttgart and we tip Serbia to shampoo England in Gelsenkirchen.
 
In SportsBiz: The best guess by MLB executives, agents and insiders polled by ESPN, of the free-agent contract for Yankees star Juan Soto, due to hit the open market after the 2024 season is US$482.5Million!
 
Unlike Dodgers star, Shohei Ohtani’s record US$700M contract, most of it to be paid out after the contract ends, Soto’s deal is fully paid out during the term of the contract. 
 
And in Boxing: Back in the ring for the first time since April 2023, Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis returned in style with an eighth-round knockout of the previously undefeated Frank Martin in Las Vegas yesterday, defending his WBA World Lightweight title.
 
Martin, who boasted a 18-0 record with 12 knockouts before this fight, was no match for the now 30-0 Davis.
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 70 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Sunday morning 16 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In a Super Rugby Pacific semifinal upset for many, which we predicted - the Chiefs knocked over the Hurricanes in Wellington, scoring two early tries and hanging on for a great 30-19 win.
 
Rising star, Wallace Sititi was outstanding at No. 8 and flyhalf Damian McKenzie contributed 15 points with a perfect afternoon from the kicking tee as the Chiefs won a Super Rugby playoff on the road for the first time at their fifth attempt.

They will be chasing a third Super Rugby title next Saturday at Eden Park against the Blues, who outmuscled the ACT Brumbies 34-20 in the first semi-final on Friday.

In rugby league: Michael Jennings danced his way through the line of his former Club, to score for the Sydney Roosters to stave off the Parramatta Eels comeback; beating Trent Barrett’s side 18-28 at CommBank Stadium in a thriller last night.
 
In other NRL games played last night: Wests Tigers 18-10 Gold Coast Titans at Leichhardt Oval and the NZ Warriors 24-38 Melbourne Storm at Go Media Stadium.
 
Our world famous tips for the NRL today - Manly Sea Eagles to zonk St George Illawarra Dragons at 4 Pines Park and Newcastle Knights pip Penrith Panthers at McDonald Jones Stadium.
 
In Football: The result for the opening game of EURO 2024: Germany thrashed Scotland 1-5 as the EURO 2024 hosts kicked off the tournament in style in Munich yesterday.
 
In other results: Hungary 1-3 Switzerland in Cologne, Spain 3-0 Croatia in Berlin.
 
Today we tip Italy to alamo Albania in Dortmund, Poland to poopoo Netherlands in Hamburg, Denmark to dojo Slovenia in Stuttgart and Serbia to shampoo England in Gelsenkirchen.
 
In SportsBiz: Wimbledon is offering record prize money for the upcoming 2024 tournament. The All England Club will pay out US$64Million in prize money for the event starting 01 July, an 11.9% increase from last year.
 
Wimbledon singles winners will receive US$3.45M each, up from $3 million last year, while first round singles losers depart with US$76,636 each.

Last year’s boost in the Wimbledon prize fund was soon followed by a rise for the 2023 US Open prize pool to US$65M, plus increases in per-diem allowances, travel assistance and hotel allotments for players.

The 2024 Australian Open offered a record US$57.5M prize pool, while the recently completed French Open awarded US$57.7M.

In the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup: The USA has reached the Last Eight in their debut appearance in the T20 World Cup, with Pakistan, finalists in the tournament two years ago heading back home.

Afghanistan beat Papua New Guinea to also advance to the Last Eight, together with tournament co-hosts West Indies, while New Zealand has also crashed out with two group games to play.

In the NBA: No team has ever come back from a 3-0 series deficit to win the NBA playoffs.
 
Can the Dallas Mavericks be the first to do it in the NBA Finals?

This, after they completely dominated the Boston Celtics 84-122 in Game 4 and in so doing, claiming the third-biggest win in NBA Finals history on the back of some big D.

It remains to be seen whether that is the case, or if the Celtics just let game 04 slip so that they can close out the finals at home in Boston next Tuesday.

Go the Mavs!

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Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 25 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 29 October 2024.
 
Happy birthday Pita Driti!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is 22 degrees Celsius again at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby: Did the Siva Tau backfire?
 
England thrashed Toa Samoa 18-34 in Wigan in the first of a two-Test series between the two nations.

The game had plenty of feeling stemming from Samoa’s traditional war dance, which saw the visitors’ get right into the faces of their opponents.

If anything, the passionate Siva Tau seemed to spur England on, who raced out to a 16-0 lead after 20 minutes

There was also a massive second half brawl.

In fact, should the Samoans, the Kiwis, the Tongans – in both rugby union, plus rugby league - and the Flying Fijians all follow the example of the Fiji Bati and do away with their traditional war dances and sing a song instead?

In Football: Manchester United has sacked Manager Erik ten Hag after dropping to a low 14th in the Premier League table after suffering their fourth loss in nine league games at West Ham on Sunday and have won only one of their last eight games in all competitions.
 
Ruud van Nistelrooy will take charge of the team as interim head coach, supported by the current coaching team, whilst a permanent head coach is recruited.
 
In the NFL: Super star Samoan Miami Dolphins Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returned to the field last weekend, five weeks after suffering his third concussion in less than two years.

Tagovailoa threw for 234 yards and one touchdown. However, he was unable to secure the win for Miami after a last-second field goal lifted Arizona, 28–27.

“I’ve been preparing to play for five weeks while I was on IR,” Tagovailoa - the 2023 NFL passing leader said at the postgame press conference. “I’m just trying to avoid the big hits.”

Tagovailoa signed a four-year US$212.4Million deal that runs until 2028. If he retires, Tagovailoa would give up US$124M in guaranteed money.

In the MLB World Series: As expected, the 2024 World Series has been a gift for Fox and Major League Baseball.

The first two games of the series between the LA Dodgers and the New York Yankees averaged 14.5 million viewers across Fox networks, the most through two games since 2017, Fox announced.

Saturday’s game averaged 13.4m viewers and peaked at 16.4m, the most-watched Game 2 since Dodgers–Red Sox in 2018. The Fox audience was up 65% on Game 2 of the 2023 World Series.

The MLB World Series is now headed to New York, but with the Dodgers ahead 2–0, ticket prices for Games 3-5 in Yankee Stadium have dropped.

Despite the dip, the tickets are still some of the most expensive in World Series history.

It’s “Showtime” sports fans, and that’s a wrap!

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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 69 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Saturday morning 15 June 2024.
 
Happy birthday Cardo!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In rugby league: The Rabbitohs are on a three-game winning streak after they beat the Broncos 12-22 at Accor Stadium last night, with Latrell Mitchell starring in his ORIGIN audition.
 
With a spot in the centres for the NSW Blues up for grabs, all eyes were on Mitchell and he didn’t disappoint; scoring a try, setting another up and running 173M.

In the other NRL result overnight, the North Queensland Cowboys handed the Canberra Raiders their third straight loss at GIO Stadium, with star Wing, Kyle Feldt scoring twice in one of the Cowboys most outstanding performances of the season for a 34-16 win over Ricky Stuart’s Raiders 
 
Our world famous tips for the NRL today - Wests Tigers to googaloo Gold Coast Titans at Leichhardt Oval, NZ Warriors to sambuca the Storm in Auckland and the Eels to curry the Roosters at CommBank Stadium.
 
In the Super Rugby Pacific semifinal last night, the Blues scored five tries of which Harry Plummer converted three to bonk the Brumbies 20-34 and send them packing back to freezing Canberra.
 
In UFC: Following days of uncertainty surrounding the immediate fighting future of ‘Mystic Mac’, UFC Prez Dana White confirmed yesterday that Irish megastar Conor McGregor is injured and has pulled out of UFC303 in Las Vegas.
 
The main event will now see UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Alex Pereira against Jiri Procházka in a blockbuster rematch, while the co-main event will see a featherweight bout between Brian Ortega and rising star Diego Lopes.

In the Olympic Games: A silver medal, won in a track cycling event at the 1900 Olympic Games, has been taken off Great Britain's Olympic tally and reassigned to France. 
 
Lloyd Hildebrand came second in the men's 25Km race over a century ago, when he was said to be of British nationality. 

New information has since revealed that Hildebrand "was born and brought up in France", according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), whose executive board approved the reassignment of the medal.  

"Even though Hildebrand was a British citizen, he was born and brought up in France, and competed for a French club before and after Paris 1900," the IOC said in a statement. 
 
"The medal won by Hildebrand will now be credited to France instead of Great Britain in the official records of the Olympic Games Paris 1900 and in the IOC's database."

In Football: Our world famous tip for the opening game of EURO 2024 at 8am this morning: Germany to sambuca Scotland in Munich.
 
Tomorrow, we tip Hungary to hullabaloo Switzerland in Cologne, Spain to crunchygranola Croatia in Berlin and Italy to alamo Albania in Dortmund.
 
In SportsBiz: The US Open underway at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina will welcome 225,000 fans this week.
 
That’s 45,000 daily, with the cheapest general admission tickets starting at US$225 sold out for each round except the final on Sunday.

More expensive options include a reserved grandstand starting at US$325 and luxury tickets starting at US$1000 up to US$2500 per day, which is completely sold out.

In Boxing: “Listen up! I’ve conquered everything in boxing – titles, records, the lot. But I’ve never had to come back from a loss.

"On December 21st in Riyadh, in the heart of the kingdom, the king will reclaim his throne. I’m coming for you! Get ready for the Gypsy King!

"The path to redemption is all mine. I know what I have to do, I saw my shortcomings and best believe I am inevitable.”

Who else but Tyson Fury on FURY-USYK II confirmed for 21 December in Saudi Arabia. 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 68 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Friday morning 14 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In rugby league: The Dolphins escaped with a tight 30-28 win over Cronulla last night, after Sharks star, Nicho Hynes missed a conversion from the sideline on fulltime.
 
The Sharks were trailing by six inside the final minute before Sione Katoa scored in the corner with 40 seconds to go.

Unfortunately for the home side, Hynes missed his first conversion at Shark Park this season.
Our world famous tips for the NRL games today the Canberra Raiders to freeze out the North Queensland Cowboys at GIO Stadium and South Sydney Rabbitohs to bury the Brisbane Broncos at Accor Stadium.
 
In rugby union: Mark Nawaqanitawase’s short-term Wallabies run might be over, but the dashing RWC2023 Wing could return to France next month for the Olympics, after being called up to the Australian 7s team.
 
The 23-year-old will feature against double Olympic gold medalists Fiji next week, in a series of trial games just five weeks out from the Paris Games.

So the Super Rugby Pacific semifinals start tonight at 7.05pm – can the Brumbies crash the Kiwi party?

And in the NBA Finals: The Dallas Mavericks are staring down the abyss of a whitewash in the NBA Finals, down now three zip after their latest 99-106 loss to the Boston Celtics.
 
In Boxing: Rising British boxing star, Ben Whittaker (7-0 with 5 x KO) takes on Nigerian champ, Ezra Arenyeka (12-0 with 10 x KO) this Saturday at Selhurst Park in London. 
 
Get ready to be entertained.
 
In the Olympic Games: As Paris gets ready for her Olympic Games, the river Seine’s water quality takes centre stage.

The river has been the lifeblood of France’s capital for centuries, but it also has a reputation for being one of Europe’s most polluted waterways.

In fact, swimming in the river has been banned since 1923.

An NGO has just released a report revealing that levels of faecal bacteria remains dangerously high.
 
Paris Olympics organizers dismiss the report as sensational rubbish, claiming that their weekly monitoring of pollution levels confirm that a 1.8Billion Euro program of cleansing the river undertaken since 2018 is working.
 
The Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony will be held on the famous river.
 
In football: EURO 2024 Pool Games

• Friday 14 June:  Germany vs Scotland in Munich at 8pm GMT
• Saturday 15 June: Hungary vs Switzerland in Cologne at 2pm GMT, Spain vs Croatia in Berlin at 5pm GMT, Italy vs Albania in Dortmund at 8pm GMT
• Sunday 16 June: Poland vs Netherlands in Hamburg 2pm GMT, Slovenia vs Denmark in Stuttgart at 5pm GMT and Serbia vs England in Gelsenkirchen at 8pm GMT.

In SportsBiz: The average number of viewers for WNBA games across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS during May was 1.32 million, nearly three times last season’s viewership average of 462,000 per game.
 
Within the overall viewership increase is a 60% jump among people of color, and first-week increases of 124% for viewers 35 years old or younger and 139% for young girls.
HELLO . . . all thanks to – Caitlin Clark!
 
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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 67 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Thursday morning 13 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In double rugby BREAKING NEWS: Two-time Dally M winner, Fiji Bati and NRL star Jarryd Hayne walked out of the Mary Wade Correctional Centre in Sydney’s west just before 5pm yesterday, after more than a year in prison, for his rape convictions, which were overturned on appeal.

And Wallabies flyhalf Carter Gordon has switched to rugby league, signing a two-year-deal with the Gold Coast Titans from next season.
 
The 23-year-old Queenslander represented Australia in last year’s Rugby World Cup, and played Super Rugby Pacific for the now defunct, Melbourne Rebels.

In SportsBiz: Dan Hurley decided Monday to remain at UConn and not take the Los Angeles Lakers offer to become their next Head Coach, despite a six-year US$70Million contract offer, according to ESPN.
 
Had he accepted, Hurley would have been their seventh Head Coach since Phil Jackson retired after the 2010-11 season.
 
And in the NBA Finals: The first ever NBA Finals MVP and basketball Hall of Famer, Jerry West died yesterday morning at age 86 with his wife by his side, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Clippers, where West had been working as a consultant.
 
In Boxing: The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is in discussions with multiple boxing stakeholders to create a league, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape of the sport.
 
A handful of leading promoters, including Matchroom Boxing and Golden Boy Promotions, are involved in the discussions that could result in a deal valuing the new entity at around US$5Billion, with PIF taking a minority stake, one source said.

Turki al-Sheikh, a close advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on sports and is Chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority, is handling discussions.

In the Olympic Games: Fijian Drua stars Iosefo Masi and Selestino Ravutaumada are being pursued by the Fiji Mens 7s team Coach, Osea Kolinisau to jump on board for the Paris Olympic rugby 7s tournament.
 
In football: Usain Bolt was stretchered off the field at Stamford Bridge after he ruptured his Achilles during a charity football match.
 
The Jamaican sprint sensation, captained a World XI team against an England XI for Soccer Aid, which raised US$37.2Million.

So despite his injury it was all worth it – thanks man!

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