Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 07 Episode 19 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a bright and sunny Friday morning 20 October 2023.
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Blue Continent - the Pacific Ocean.
In rugby union: The Australian federal government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is using rugby diplomacy to improve international relations with Fiji and Papua New Guinea: The Aussies just confirmed ongoing funding for the Fijian Drua and Fijiana Drua participation in Super Rugby Pacific and the Australian National Rugby Championship respectively, for the next four years.
While on his last trip to Port Moresby, Albanese also announced funding for PNG to be the 18th franchise in the NRL in the near future.
In rugby league: The North Sydney Bears have lost out on A$11Million in New South Wales government funding, promised by the ousted Liberal government, and which has been scrapped by new Labor Premier.
This has put Papua New Guinea in the box seat to be named the 18th NRL side with funding from the federal government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, backing PNG to join the NRL, in a political move to improve international relations.
In SportsBiz: Two top media companies have reportedly raised their bids for the media rights to Serie A — but the figures still fall short of the initial US$1Billion-plus annual goal set by Italy’s top soccer league.
DAZN and Comcast-owned Sky Italia submitted offers that would pay Serie A US$4.75B over five years, or about US$950Million a year, according to Bloomberg, DAZN would pay about US$740M per season, while Sky Italia would contribute about US$211M annually.
In Combat sports: IBF Bantamweight World Champion, blonde Aussie stunner, Ebanie Bridges will defend her title on 9 December in San Francisco against fellow Aussie beauty, Avril Mathie in what has already been tagged as the ‘Battle of the Babes’,” with Bridges adding “It will be the sexiest fight ever” and just for good measure, “The weigh-in will break the internet.”
Why you might ask? Well, a lot of people, outside of boxing will be interested to see if these two ‘OnlyFans models’ can really box.
In Football: Brazilian superstar Neymar has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and will go under the knife.
The 31-year-old was stretchered off during Brazil’s 2-0 2026 World Cup qualifier loss to Uruguay, after landing awkwardly after what players and officials thought was just another Neymar dive!
But he was in real tears as he left the field, knowing how much match fees he will miss out on while sidelined from playing in the lucrative Saudi Pro League, with Al Hilal, as ESPN is reporting Brazil’s medical staff believe his return could take eight months.
And that’s a wrap!
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