Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 68 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Friday morning 14 June 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In rugby league: The Dolphins escaped with a tight 30-28 win over Cronulla last night, after Sharks star, Nicho Hynes missed a conversion from the sideline on fulltime.
 
The Sharks were trailing by six inside the final minute before Sione Katoa scored in the corner with 40 seconds to go.

Unfortunately for the home side, Hynes missed his first conversion at Shark Park this season.
Our world famous tips for the NRL games today the Canberra Raiders to freeze out the North Queensland Cowboys at GIO Stadium and South Sydney Rabbitohs to bury the Brisbane Broncos at Accor Stadium.
 
In rugby union: Mark Nawaqanitawase’s short-term Wallabies run might be over, but the dashing RWC2023 Wing could return to France next month for the Olympics, after being called up to the Australian 7s team.
 
The 23-year-old will feature against double Olympic gold medalists Fiji next week, in a series of trial games just five weeks out from the Paris Games.

So the Super Rugby Pacific semifinals start tonight at 7.05pm – can the Brumbies crash the Kiwi party?

And in the NBA Finals: The Dallas Mavericks are staring down the abyss of a whitewash in the NBA Finals, down now three zip after their latest 99-106 loss to the Boston Celtics.
 
In Boxing: Rising British boxing star, Ben Whittaker (7-0 with 5 x KO) takes on Nigerian champ, Ezra Arenyeka (12-0 with 10 x KO) this Saturday at Selhurst Park in London. 
 
Get ready to be entertained.
 
In the Olympic Games: As Paris gets ready for her Olympic Games, the river Seine’s water quality takes centre stage.

The river has been the lifeblood of France’s capital for centuries, but it also has a reputation for being one of Europe’s most polluted waterways.

In fact, swimming in the river has been banned since 1923.

An NGO has just released a report revealing that levels of faecal bacteria remains dangerously high.
 
Paris Olympics organizers dismiss the report as sensational rubbish, claiming that their weekly monitoring of pollution levels confirm that a 1.8Billion Euro program of cleansing the river undertaken since 2018 is working.
 
The Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony will be held on the famous river.
 
In football: EURO 2024 Pool Games

• Friday 14 June:  Germany vs Scotland in Munich at 8pm GMT
• Saturday 15 June: Hungary vs Switzerland in Cologne at 2pm GMT, Spain vs Croatia in Berlin at 5pm GMT, Italy vs Albania in Dortmund at 8pm GMT
• Sunday 16 June: Poland vs Netherlands in Hamburg 2pm GMT, Slovenia vs Denmark in Stuttgart at 5pm GMT and Serbia vs England in Gelsenkirchen at 8pm GMT.

In SportsBiz: The average number of viewers for WNBA games across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and CBS during May was 1.32 million, nearly three times last season’s viewership average of 462,000 per game.
 
Within the overall viewership increase is a 60% jump among people of color, and first-week increases of 124% for viewers 35 years old or younger and 139% for young girls.
HELLO . . . all thanks to – Caitlin Clark!
 
And that’s a wrap people!
 
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