14-05-2024 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S09E38#TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 38 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Tuesday morning 14 May 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
                                                                                         
In rugby union: The Super Rugby Pacific ladder after 12 Rounds sees the Blues tops on 45 points. The Fijian Drua sit in 8th spot with their three remaining games against the Reds 5 in Suva on Saturday night, Highlanders 7 away in Dunedin and the Rebels 6 in Lautoka. Can the Fijian Drua hang on for a quarterfinal?

RANK  TEAM                      P     W   D    L   BP  PD     PTS
1      BLUES                  11   10   0   1   5   209   45
2       HURRICANES        11    9    0   2   7   161   43
3       BRUMBIES           11    9    0   2   3     51   39
4       CHIEFS                11    8    0   3   6   189   38
5       REDS                   11    6    0   5   7     66   31
6       REBELS                11    5    0   6   5    -87   25
7       HIGHLANDERS     11    5    0   6   3    -72   23
8       DRUA                  11    4    0   7   1    -96   17
9       FORCE                 11    3    0   8   3   -101  15
10     MOANA PASIFIKA  11    3    0   8   2   -194  14
11     CRUSADERS         11    2    0   9   6     -34  14
12     WARATAHS          11    2    0   9   4     -92  12

In rugby league: Almost every team has been hit with injury woes after a week of carnage across the NRL.

Eels superstar Mitchell Moses is “touch and go” to return in Magic Round and stamp his case to be picked in the halves for the Blues.

The Manly Sea Eagles are facing a huge backline headache after Tom Trbojevic and Jason Saab both went down in Round 10.

Meanwhile, the Panthers have a halves crisis.

In Football: After the record–breaking FIFA Women’s World Cup down under in 2023, the A-League's stats for women’s football in Australia since then, shows great growth:

·       11,000 fans at the season opener - the biggest attendance ever.
·       A 600% increase in Club membership.
·       Average attendance doubling to 2200.
·       More than 300,000 fans attending across the season – the highest-attended women’s sports league in Australian history. 
 
In SportsBiz: Formula 1 Group recorded revenues of US$553Million in the first quarter of 2024.
 
In results released by Liberty Media ahead of its Q1 investor call, the company’s revenues jumped 45 per cent from the same period last year.

And finally in combat sports: “That’s the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch,” Tevita Pangai Junior said on Saturday night – his boxing career on the ropes after the former NRL star was knocked out in the first round by Kenny Niko who had lost all three of his only professional fights before Saturday.

It is a devastating blow for the former NSW State of Origin enforcer, who was this week given the cold shoulder by the Melbourne Storm.

And that’s a wrap!
 
Please hit the like and subscribe buttons below if you want to receive more Pasifika sports highlights on Breakfast Bites.
 
Mahalo and Ka kite; for TEIVOVOdigital.com, I’m Culden Kamea tanking you all too mass for all your love and support.
 
#TEIVOVORugby  #TEIVOVODigital #TeivovoRugby #TeivovoDigital #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #Raka #team #rugbytraining #sports #FRU #Fiji #womensrugby #rugbygirls #wrugby #ladiesrugby #womeninsport  #woman #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #fitness #weightlifting #training #team #rugbytraining #sports  #rakavi  #DevelopmentFiji