Malo and welcome to Season 4 Episode 36 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on another beautiful blue sky Monday morning 06 February 2023, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
Malo and welcome to Season 4 Episode 36 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on another beautiful blue sky Monday morning 06 February 2023, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
In rugby – the whole of Fiji is waiting on news from New Zealand today: Will the Kiwis help Fiji out and allow one of their best and a favourite future All Blacks Head Coach, Scott Robertson to lead the Flying Fijians to the Rugby World Cup in France in September? Only time will tell.
In rugby league – BREAKING NEWS: NRL star and budding TV pundit, Latrell Mitchell had to seek medical assistance after four policemen pinned him to the ground and arrested him around 4am yesterday morning, outside a Canberra nightclub in “a friendly wrestle” with fellow player and good mate, Jack Wighton, who was celebrating his 30th birthday.
Mitchell needs to pass a fitness test to play in the All Stars game now, so that will probably see him gone as well.
Meanwhile, Nelson Asofa-Solomona and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak have become the latest big names to pull out of this year’s All Stars game. “Unfortunately I’m not physically ready to play in such an intensive game in the pre-season,” Asofa-Solomona said. So NZ Maori have named Tukimihia Simpkins, Leo Thompson, Paul Turner, Austin Dias, Creedence Toia and Sheldon Pitama to replace Lord Nelson.
In boxing – according to UFC Prez Dana White, UFC284 headlined by the massive title fight between Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski will surpass all expectations and could even break the all-time UFC pay-per-view record set by UFC229: King Khabib vs Connor McGregor, which had 2.4 million PPV sold.
In football – Mikel Arteta urged Arsenal to dig deep after a shock 1-0 defeat at Everton, dented the Premier League leaders’ title bid, while Liverpool’s troubled season hit a new low with a woeful 3-0 loss at Wolves. Arsenal still leads second placed Manchester City by five points, because the champions lost to Tottenham 1-0 earlier this morning.
In Sportsbiz – Super Bowl in-game 30-secs advertising spots hit the US$1Million mark in 1995. This year, advertisers will pay US$7M for those coveted Super Bowl LVII spots on 12 February.
Get this – the FTX cryptocurrency Ad in the halftime slot of Super Bowl LVI in 2022 stands alone as the biggest flop of all time: It starred Larry David in the final scene saying to an actor presenting him with FTX. “Eh, I don’t think so. And I’m never wrong about this stuff.”
Ha ha – Karma, what a thing of beauty!
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