Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 21 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 25 October 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is mostly cloudy again and a cool 22 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: The World Rugby Awards 2024 to be handed out in November in the following categories for XVs rugby:

Men’s XVs
·       World Rugby Men’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year
·       World Rugby Men’s 15s Dream Team of the Year
·       World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year and the
·       International Rugby Players Men’s Try of the Year

Women’s 15s
·       World Rugby Women’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year
·       World Rugby Women’s 15s Dream Team of the Year
·       World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year and the
·       International Rugby Players Women’s Try of the Year

In Rugby League: Brad and Kiana Takairangi are set to create sporting history when they captain the Cook Islands Aitu and Moana in Saturday’s Pacific Championships double-header against Fiji at Suva’s HFC Stadium.
 
In a world first, the pair are believed to be the only brother and sister, in any sport, to be appointed as captain of their nation’s men’s and women’s teams at the same time.

Congratulations Takairangi’s!

And the Kaiviti Silktails have announced a three-year partnership with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, ending their four-year partnership with the Sydney Roosters.

In Football: Results from key games in the UEFA Champions League played yesterday: Atalanta 0-0 Celtic, Manchester City 5-0 Sparta Praha, Leipzig 0-1 Liverpool, Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich, Atleti 1-3 Lille, Benfica 1-3 Feyenoord, Salzburg 0-2 GNK Dinamo and Young Boys 0-1 Inter.  
 
In Sports Biz: LeBron James, who is in his 22nd year, will be the first player in NBA history to breach the US half-billion-dollar mark in career earnings, following this season.
 
But NBA salaries continue to rise, driven by exponential increases to media-rights deals, with the first player to hit US$1Billion across their career already on the horizon.

The maximum NBA salary a player can receive is 35% of the salary cap—often referred to as a supermax deal.

Players who have signed in the supermax range include three-time MVP Nikola Jokić and three-time All-Star Bradley Beal.

The NBA’s salary cap total is around 50% of NBA revenue, as per their collective bargaining agreement.

In Boxing: Almost 60 years after Lionel Rose shocked the world – and upset a Japanese megastar – another of Australia’s most exciting young fighters is now readying to punch himself into national sporting immortality.

Australia’s undefeated Super Bantamweight star, Sam Goodman has finally been confirmed to fight Japan’s Naoya “Monster” Inoue in a Tokyo world title blockbuster on Christmas Eve.

Finally, in the WNBA: The number of viewers for the final game of the WNBA Finals at 2.15 million, made it the WNBA championship series’ most-watched game of 2000s.

ESPN aired the game, with stiff competition from Sunday Night Football on NBC and Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, where the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx 62–67 in overtime.

And that’s a wrap peeps!

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 mas for all your love and support.
 
#TEIVOVORugby  #TEIVOVODigital #TeivovoRugby #TeivovoDigital #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #Raka #team...