21-06-2024 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S09E75 #TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 75 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Friday morning 21 June 2024 where it is 23 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: The Super Rugby Pacific Final on Saturday night at Eden Park in Auckland sees the Blues and the Chiefs feature a galaxy of Maori and Pasifika stars.
 
For the Chiefs: 4. Jimmy Tupou 5. Tupou Vaa’i 6. Samipeni Finau 7. Luke Jacobson (C) 8. Wallace Sititi 9. Cortez Ratima 11. Etene Nanai-Seturo 12. Rameka Poihipi 13. Anton Lienert-Brown 14. Emoni Narawa and 15. Shaun Stevenson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazing!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Er . . WNBA make the most of Caitlin Clark while you can! The next great white hope is on his way!
And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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