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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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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, 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 GMTSaturday 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 GMTSunday 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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Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 66 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Wednesday morning 12 June 2024.
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
In rugby union: So why do we tip the Brumbies to bamboozle the Blues at Eden Park in their Super Rugby Pacific semifinal on Friday night?
Because, of all the Aussie franchises, the boys from Canberra can – they have the grit, guts and grunt in their forward pack to overhaul the pretty boys from Auckland who may have lost their Captain Tuipolotu as well.
As for our tip for the Chiefs to curry potato the Hurricanes in Wellington - simple, All Blacks spots are at stake, and in several key individual match-ups we think the mooloos from Waikato will be more desperate.
In rugby league: Jason Taumalolo has been named to start at lock for the Cowboys against the Canberra Raiders at GIO Stadium on Friday, after coming off the bench in his last seven games.
In other NRL games this weekend, on Thursday - Cronulla Sharks vs Dolphins at PointsBet Stadium
Friday - South Sydney Rabbitohs vs Brisbane Broncos at Accor Stadium
Saturday - Wests Tigers vs Gold Coast Titans at Leichhardt Oval, NZ Warriors vs Melbourne Storm at Go Media Stadium and Parramatta Eels vs Sydney Roosters at CommBank Stadium
On Sunday - Manly Sea Eagles vs St George Illawarra Dragons at 4 Pines Park and Newcastle Knights vs Penrith Panthers at McDonald Jones Stadium
In the T20 World Cup Cricket: Jasprit Bumrah was the hero as India beat Pakistan by six runs in a low-scoring T20 World Cup thriller on Long Island, New York city yesterday.
India were bowled out by Pakistan for 119 in 19 overs but while Mohammad Rizwan made 31 for Pakistan, Indian fast bowler Bumrah delivered crucial wickets and his 3-14 in four overs proved decisive as Pakistan fell just short, ending on 113-7 in front of a record 34,000 fans.
In SportsBiz: The best players on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf are all making their way to Pinehurst, North Carolina, for the US Open, which begins Thursday.
The tournament will feature 11 VIP areas scattered throughout the 18 holes, resulting in the second highest corporate hospitality sales for a US Open, behind only last year’s record tournament at Los Angeles Country Club.
An inside source says those sales will total over US$23Million.
Large companies from nearby Raleigh and Charlotte are responsible for most of those incoming dollars, but organizers are also benefiting from the growing trend of individual golf fans willing to spend big dollars on premium tickets.
So the US Golf Association is rolling out “The 1895 Club” restricted to 400 fans, next to the 18th green at US$2500 per day, where buyers receive all-day gourmet dining, a top-shelf open bar, and complimentary golf cart shuttle service for entrance onto the grounds.
Sales of 1895 Club tickets would bring in US$1M per day if completely sold out, which is already the case for Thursday and Friday.
The new premium ticket follows a similar concept launched at the Masters this year, where Augusta National unveiled its first official hospitality experience, “Map & Flag”, priced at US$17,000 for a weekly pass, equating to about US$4428 per day.
And in the NBA Finals: If you haven’t seen it yet, check out “Malace in the Palace” on Netflix – oh boy what a ripper doco on that famous scrap between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons!
In the Olympic Games: The Paris Olympics gets underway on 26 July with an unprecedented opening ceremony involving a flotilla of barges carrying athletes down the iconic River Seine.
But in typical French fashion, President Emmanuel Macron has called a surprise snap election, to be held just weeks before.
With the outcome of the parliamentary vote looking shaky and unlikely to result in a clear majority for Macron, it raises the risk of civil unrest, at a time when Paris is hoping its 2.1 million residents come together to welcome the world to its city.
Viva le France!
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