Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 44 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Monday morning 20 May 2024.

Happy Birthday Ann!

Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.

In combat sports: Oleksandr Usyk will only be able to call himself undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion for a couple more weeks.

Despite winning “the fight of the century” against Tyson Fury via split decision in Saudi Arabia yesterday, and claiming the Gypsy King’s WBC title, which the Ukranian Warrior added to his WBA, IBF and WBO belts – the first time one man has done so in over 25 years, his status will only last a matter of two weeks.
Boxing journalist Dan Rafael has reported that both Fury and Usyk’s contracts recognised that they must vacate the IBF title ahead of overdue mandatory challenger Filip Hrgovic’s bout with Daniel Dubois on 01 June.
In Rugby: While the Top 4 – Blues, Hurricanes, Brumbies and Chiefs are locked in for the Super Rugby Pacific play-off finals, there is still some wiggle room in the make-up of positions 5 – 8 where the Reds, Highlanders, Force, Drua and Rebels are all in the running.
Our world famous tips for the last two rounds of Super Rugby Pacific 2024:
· The Reds should beat the Force and the Tahs in their remaining two games for fifth
· The Rebels will find it very tough against the Brumbies and the Drua to hang on to sixth
· The Highlanders should be good enough to stay in the Top 8 with games against the Drua at home and the Hurricanes away
· The Force are on a roll, but have two tough games in the Reds away and the Brumbies in Perth
· The Fijian Drua will be lucky to beat the Highlanders in Dunedin, but are good enough to smash the Rebels in Lautoka

So our tip for 5th are the Reds, 6th Highlanders, the Fijian Drua in 7th and the Rebels to finish 8th.

In rugby league: Results from the last day of NRL Magic Round at Suncorp yesterday: The New Zealand Warriors 22-20 Penrith Panthers, the Melbourne Storm 48-16 Parramatta Eels and in the last game of magic round - Wests Tigers fell to the Dolphins 24-12.

In Super Netball: Giants star Jamie-Lee Price has become the first player sent-off under Super Netball’s new no-warning suspension rules in her side’s 76-52 loss to the NSW Swifts yesterday.

The Giants co-captain lasted just eight minutes before being sent from the court for dangerous play, leaving her team a woman down for two minutes.
Super Netball’s newest team, the Melbourne Mavericks nabbed their second win of the season - sinking the Queensland Firebirds 62-69.
The star of the show and match MVP was experienced Jamaican, Shimona Jok who finished with 52 goals from 57 shots.
And finally, Liz Watson led her new team, Sunshine Coast Lightning, to a bittersweet 64-57 win over her former side, the Melbourne Vixens.

And that’s a wrap!

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Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 06 Episode 44 of Breakfast Bites by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news on an overcast and windy, but warm Monday morning 14 August 2023.

Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

At the FIFA World Cup: French President Emmanuel Macron has joined millions of Australians in jumping aboard the Matildas bandwagon after Australia’s penalty shootout victory over France in the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday night.

Macron proved he is indeed a man of his word by publicly declaring his support of the Matildas in their upcoming semi-final match against England on social media.

“Nothing personal against our English friends, but a bet is a bet,” Macron wrote on X (formerly Twitter) - “Good luck Australia for the semi-finals!”

In Rugby World Cup 2023 warm up Tests yesterday England 19-17 Wales and Scotland 27-30 France. Tonga plays Canada in Nukualofa at 1pm local time tomorrow and Fiji plays France in Nantes at 7:05pm local time this Saturday, while Manu Samoa is on holiday soaking up the sun somewhere in Europe.

In rugby league: Two big scores in the NRL games yesterday: Melbourne Storm 48-2 Canberra Raiders at AAMI Park and the Newcastle Knights 42-6 Canterbury Bulldogs at McDonald Jones Stadium.

In SportsBiz: Millions of Australians turned on their TVs to watch the Matildas defeat France in Saturday's FIFA World Cup quarterfinal.

Seven West Media has reported an estimated average audience of 4.17 million people — making it the number one television event of 2023 so far.

Of this number, 472,000 viewers watched the game on Seven's streaming platform 7plus — making it the biggest streaming event ever seen in Australia.

These figures do not capture out-of-home viewers at clubs, pubs, sporting venues and multiple live site broadcasts. 

Go Matildas Go.

In combat Sports: Promoter Eddie Hearn says there is a “three-fight plan” for Anthony Joshua that will ideally see him take on Dillian Whyte, Deontay Wilder and the Gypsy King Tyson Fury.

AJ takes his record to 26-3 as he continues his quest to return to the top of the heavyweight division after two losses to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021 and 2022.

Boy, the Bronze Bomber gonna whip your ass in one round!

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Bula and welcome to TeivovoRugby.com – “Breakafast Bites” – a wrap of daily sports highlights for Saturday 11 June 2022!

·  No matter what the sport, wily old coaches always say that great D wins games, and so it proved last night with the Crusaders putting in a BIG day at the office, clocking up a new Super Rugby record of 250 tackles to hold out the hard-charging Chiefs 20-6 in freezing, wet conditions in Christchurch.

And so today up in sunny Auckland at a predicted 14 degrees Celsius, we tip the Blues to dismantle the Brumbies to advance to the Super Rugby Pacific final next week.

·  With 19 All Blacks playing in Christchurch last night and more today, the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals are great trials for the first All Blacks squad to be named on Monday. The Crusaders could provide the bulk of the All Blacks, but the challenge for Head Coach Ian Foster and his selectors is whether to select a champion team, or a team of stars.

·  In the NRL, Already without ORIGIN forwards Jeremiah Nanai and Reuben Cotter, the Cowboys lost star forward, Heilum Luki early in the first half, but they barely missed a beat, with superstar Jason Taumalolo and Hooker Reece Robson leading the way to a 31-12 win against St George Dragons in Townsville last night.

·  In football, England plays Italy in the Nations League with only 3,000 fans allowed to watch; punishment for all the crowd trouble before the Euro 2020 final when fans without tickets forced their way through security gates into Wembley stadium.

England Manager Gareth Southgate says the punishment is embarrassing for the country.

·  In boxing, Three-weight world champion, Naoya Inoue is the first Japanese boxer to be crowned “World Pound-for-Pound King”. Unbeaten at 23-0, with 20 wins by Knockout. Inoue is the reigning undisputed WBC, WBA, IBF and Ring Bantamweight World Champion.

·  Finally in money matters, Forbes estimates that the 46-year-old Tiger Woods has now joined LeBron James and Michael Jordan as the third athlete in history to reach billionaire status based on his golf winnings, endorsements and other business ventures over the years.

Nowadays less than 10% of Tiger’s net worth and career earnings originate from the golf course. The vast majority of his wealth is generated from lucrative endorsement deals with various brands including Nike, Gatorade, Rolex and TaylorMade.

Sounds like stuff I wear Gatorade and Taylormade!!!

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Bula and welcome to TeivovoRugby.com – “Breakafast Bites” – a wrap of the daily sports news for Friday 10 June 2022!

Watch  out for the flying Sevu Reece in the first Super Rugby Pacific  semifinal at 7.05pm tonight, and especially keep an eye out for the key  match-up between Brodie Retalick and the Crusaders Captain Scott  Barrett.

The  aging Chiefs warrior is in the fight of his life against the young gun  and tallest Barrett Bro, to see who will partner Sam Whitelock in the  All Blacks this international season.

As they say in rugby league – money talks and right now the NRL is flush with cash!

Every State of Origin player in ORIGIN I on Wednesday made A$30,000 match allowance just for making the game-day 17.

And  for all the players NOT in the State of Origin series, the NRL  announced a boost in their Club’s salary cap from the current  A$10Million ceiling to $10.5M next season, with an annual increase of A$100,000 each subsequent year during the next broadcast cycle.

Sad  news in boxing, the South African boxer who became disoriented during a  fight and threw punches in the direction of an empty corner has died.

You  may have seen the video of Simiso Buthelezi on Youtube, well he passed  away yesterday after being induced into a coma following the fight on 5  June in Durban. He was 24 years old. RIP bro.

Finally today, Tiger Woods turned down nearly US$1Billion to join the Saudi-backed LIV Tour, CEO Greg Norman told The Washington Post.

The  first LIV Invitational tournament teed off in London yesterday with  US$25Million in prize money of which US$4M goes to the winner.

For  their troubles, all 17 PGA-ranked players who entered this tournament –  including Phil Mickleson and Sergio Garcia, have been suspended by the  US PGA, who see the Saudi-backed tour as a big threat.

Geez and I thought golf was a gentlemen’s game!

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Bula and welcome to TeivovoRugby.com – “Breakfast Bites” – a wrap of the daily sports news!

Queensland turned the tables on the NSW Blues in ORIGIN I in front of 90,000 screaming fans at Accor Stadium in Sydney last night, grinding out a 16-10 win with Man of the Match – who else - Cameron Munster!

In boxing, World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury bought two brand new Rolls-Royce cars yesterday at a bargain F$1.2Million each. The Gypsy King owns two other Rolls - so four in total now, a classic Mini Cooper, a Range Rover, a couple of Ferrari’s and a Volkswagen.

Don’t throw away your old jersey Hector!

Wayne Gretzky won the 1988 Stanley Cup – er that’s in ice hockey, in his final game for the Edmonton Oilers.

So last weekend, his jersey from that final sold for US$1.5Million at auction, becoming the most expensive hockey jersey of all time.

Harry Kane's goal against Germany on Tuesday night was his 50th goal for England, now just three behind Wayne Rooney's record. It took Cristiano Ronaldo 114 games to score 50 goals for Portugal and Lionel Messi scored 50 in 107 games for Argentina. Kane has got his in just 71 games.

And to wrap this morning’s first ever breakfast bite:

Sepp Blatter – remember him? The fraud trial of the former-FIFA President was held up again after the 86 year old Blatter complained of chest pains and breathing difficulties.

Swiss prosecutors allege a 2011 FIFA payment of US$2.2Million authorised by Blatter to Michel Platini, ex-UEFA President was unlawful.

Get this, Blatter and Platini say it was a late payment for advisory work by Platini for the then FIFA President, done 13 years earlier in 1998. Sorry, but these two are crooks!

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Our Lakeba Rugby Club was established in December 2021 and we were able to get Simeli Limbau , he's a level two world rugby trainer certified and also Ro Ceravata who's a level three world rugby coach certified and he's also a world rugby educator .  

That's you know something big for us is about to get a coach of his magnitude to come and coach us at grassroots. The numbers, we're around 50 registered players and a majority are from Lakeba, Lau  and like a sprinkle of Tailevu.

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