Malo and welcome to Season 4 Episode 17 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on this warm and sunny Tuesday morning 18 January 2023, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
Malo and welcome to Season 4 Episode 17 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on this warm and sunny Tuesday morning 18 January 2023, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
In rugby union – details of the Eddie Jones coup now emerging show Rugby Australia Chairman, Hamish McLennan wooing Fast Eddie to take over coaching the Wallabies from 2024, over a year ago.
After the Wallabies loss to Italy, two things sealed incumbent Kiwi Head Coach, Dave Rennie’s fate; England unexpectedly sacking Jones last month and the Kiwi’s refusal to work with Fast Eddie in any capacity for the Rugby World Cup in France in September.
In rugby league – there’s only two months to go until the season kicks off and every NRL team has made key signings for 2023: James Tamou is one of three Cowboys signings, but is set to become a crucial mentor for a young and exciting forward pack with his 305 games of NRL experience.
In the NBA – “You feel old, don’t you? You played against my Dad,” Houston Rockets rookie Jabari Smith Jr er maybe shouldn’t have said that to Lebron James pregame, because King James erupted for a season-high 48 points with five threes, eight rebounds and nine assists to lead the LA Lakers past the Rockets 140-132 at home yesterday.
In boxing – former American tennis star, Billie Jean King, 79, turned to social media to reminisce about her relationship with Muhammad Ali on his 81st birthday, which would have been today.
“Whenever we would run into each other, he would whisper in my ear, ‘Billie Jean, you’re the queen’. He is a legend whose legacy continues today,” Billie Jean King.
In football – after lighting up football’s biggest stages – Real Madrid’s heaving Santiago Bernabeu stadium and the “Theatre of Dreams” at Manchester United’s Old Trafford, Cristiano Ronaldo faces a very different reality in the Saudi Pro League with some stadiums only seating 6000 fans and less exalted teams — plus some very high temperatures.
But Ronaldo, 37 now, says he’s embracing the “challenge” of playing in Saudi Arabia; any inconvenience made much easier of course by the US$216Million-a-year deal he is paid by his new team, Al Nassr.
Geez that’s a million dollars a day in our money!
Finally, only in America – According to Court documents, NFL legend Tom Brady is among the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX’s largest individual shareholders with more than 1.1 million shares, once worth US$45Million when FTX was valued at a staggering US$32Billion in January 2022.
His ex-wife Gisele has more than 686,000 shares.
BOOM that’s the reason they divorced right there – she listened to him and paid millions for those shares.
For TeivovoSports.com I’m Culden Kamea – Mahalo, vina’a and thank you – please hit the subscribe button below if you would like to receive more Pasifika sports highlights on Breakfast Bites. And tank you all too mas for all your love and support.
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