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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!
And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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Mahalo and Ka kite; for TEIVOVOdigital.com, I’m Culden Kamea tanking you all too mass for all your love and support.
 
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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 –...

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.”

And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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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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