Malo and welcome to Season 4 Episode 20 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on this bright and beautiful Saturday morning 21 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 20 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on this bright and beautiful Saturday morning 21 January 2023, coming to you from paradise on the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!
In rugby union – Wallabies fullback Kurtley Beale has been charged by police over an alleged sexual assault of a 28-year-old woman in Bondi on 17 December. Beale is charged with two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and sexual intercourse without consent.
Meanwhile, in the Hamilton 7s this weekend: Fiji plays France at 8.32am, Kenya at 12pm, before playing Samoa in their final pool game at 3.06pm.
Samoa play Kenya at 8.54am and France at 12.22pm before their clash against Fiji.
The New Zealand All Blacks 7s play Tonga at 9.16am, Australia at 1.06pm and their final pool game is against Great Britain at 6.35pm.
The Men’s cup quarter-finals will start at 9.58am on Sunday, the semifinals at 1.48pm, and the final will be played at 6.56pm.
In the Hamilton 7s Women’s comp: Team Fijiana plays Great Britain at 10.22am, New Zealand at 2.12pm and Papua New Guinea at 5.37pm.
The Silver Ferns 7s play Papua New Guinea at 10.44am before they face Fijiana and then play Great Britain at 7.03pm in the last game of the night, Day One Hamilton 7s.
In rugby league – former Manly and Toa Samoa enforcer, Marty Taupau is reportedly set to link with the Broncos for the 2023 season, after the 32-year-old’s A$800,000 contract with the Sea Eagles was not renewed. Red Hill beat the Eels and Rabbitohs to his signature.
Meanwhile the Parammatta Eels have suffered a double injury blow with crack centre and Fiji Bati at that Waqa Blake breaking his arm and now racing the clock for Round One.
In sportsbiz – last year the NFL crashed the NBA Christmas day party with a triple-header which dominated the TV ratings. In total, the three NFL Christmas Day games averaged 22.9 million viewers, against the NBA’s five games on ABC and ESPN which averaged only 4.3 million TV viewers.
In football – Manchester City produced a stunning second half comeback to beat Tottenham 4-2 yesterday.
Two goals in three minutes just before half-time by Spurs saw City staring down the barrel of a second consecutive defeat, but Julian Alvarez, Erling Haaland and Riyad Mahrez struck early in the second period with Mahrez adding his second late on, to save Pep G the strain.
In boxing – “He’s one of those guys who would give you the opportunity because you deserve it, or give you the opportunity because you need it, or give you the opportunity because you want to look after your family. He’s one of those who would just do anything for you, if he could,” Kiwi Samoan boxer Joseph Parker angling for a big payday fight against his good mate, the Gypsy King.
In the Pacific it’s like, “Hey bro how bout we just fight for fun.”
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