Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 16 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 20 October 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is exactly the same as yesterday – partly cloudy and 22 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby League: Nene Macdonald and Robert Derby starred as the Papua New Guinea Kumuls stunned the Fiji Bati 10-22 in their Pacific Championships clash at HFC Bank Stadium in Suva yesterday.
 
North Queensland Cowboys young gun Wing Derby finished with a whopping 273M run to go with four tackle busts, a line-break and a try in a stunning display.

Former Dragons player Macdonald finished with 233M run, 10 tackle busts, four offloads, two line-breaks and a try.

In the Pacific Bowl Women’s Test, also in Suva yesterday, Samoa ended Tonga’s World Cup hopes with a 30-16 Pacific Championships win on the back of doubles to Sarina Masaga and Jessica Patea at HFC Bank Stadium.
 
Meanwhile, on Friday night, Big Mal Meninga’s Australian Kangaroos centres, Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow and Tom Trbojevic starred as a rusty Kangaroos outfit beat a brave Tonga side 18-0 in their Pacific Championships opener at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
 
Tabuai-Fidow was a highlight for the Aussies finishing with 133M run, three tackle busts and a try, while Turbo Tom finished with 211M, three tackle busts and a try in a superb return to Test footy.

Tom Dearden also scored on debut, with a four-pointer on the bell.

It was an underwhelming start to the tournament for the Kangaroos, with plenty of room for improvement according to Corey Parker: “They’re a work in progress,” he said.

In Football: Man U needed second-half goals from Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Højlund to come from behind and win 2-1 against Brentford, for their first victory in six games in all competitions.
 
Under fire Manager, Erik10 admitted United were fired up for their second-half comeback, angered by the circumstances around the visitors' controversial opening goal, after Ethan Pinnock scored from a corner with a United player off the pitch receiving treatment for a head injury.
 
In Sports Biz: Major League Baseball 2024 postseason Game 5 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres drew an average audience in Japan of 12.9 million viewers - the most-watched MLB postseason game in Japan.
 
This despite a 16-hour time difference between Tokyo and the US West Coast that results in many games being shown in Japan’s early morning hours.

The key driver of the robust numbers, of course, is Japanese-born baseball superstar Shoshei Ohtani in the playoffs for the first time in his MLB career. 

In the NFL: Seven-time Super Bowl Champion QB, Tom Brady will become a limited partner in the Las Vegas Raiders after NFL owners voted unanimously to approve the deal.

Brady and his co-investor, Tom Wagner, will buy 10% of the team for US$220Million, valuing the franchise at US$3.5Billion.

NFL Owners also awarded the 2028 Super Bowl to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Falcons home facility, is also one of the host stadiums for the FIFA Men’s World Cup next year.

And finally in Boxing: The Tim Tszyu versus Bakhram Murtazaliev fight in Orlando, Florida, USA today gets underway at 11am AEDT with a Super Featherweight fight between Roberto Raul Rivera Gomez and Martin Diaz.
 
There are five other fights on the card, including undefeated Australian Mateo Tapia against Endry Saavedra before Tszyu makes his ring walk for a 1.30pm AEDT start to his fight.

And that’s a wrap peeps!

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