Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 20 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 24 October 2024.
 
Happy birthday Anee’ Roxburgh!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is mostly cloudy and a very cool 21 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: The Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 in England, will be played over six weekends of competition across the eight host locations, in what promises to be the largest celebration of women’s rugby ever.
 
The biggest celebration of women’s rugby will kick-off with hosts England facing USA in the opening game at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light on 22 August 2025.
 
The majority of games have afternoon kick-off times, to boost fan and family attendance.
 
In Rugby League: Broncos star Ezra Mam could be the first player to face the NRL’s new independent body, that will be in charge of sanctioning players for off-field incidents.
 
New Head Coach Michael Maguire has refused to rule out terminating Mam’s five-year, A$4Million deal after he was involved in a two-car head-on collision in Brisbane on Friday night.

The 21-year-old reportedly returned a positive result from a roadside drug test, however, no charges have been laid.

In Football: Results of key UEFA Champions League games yesterday: Milan 3-1 Club Brugge, Paris 1-1 PSG, Juventus 0-1 Stuttgart, Arsenal 1-0 Shakhtar, Aston Villa 2-0 Bologna and Real Madrid 5-2 Borussia Dortmund.
 
In Netball: The Diamonds will return from New Zealand with their Constellation Cup hopes hanging by a thread after Australia once again struggled in attack in last night’s 52-63 loss.
 
It’s a worst-case scenario for the World Champions after another Silver Ferns drubbing – making it now eight straight losses in New Zealand.

Maybe Coach Stacey Marinkovich – in her 50th Test in charge, should step aside.

In Sports Biz: Juan Soto, born 25 years ago in Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic, hit a three-run homer to beat the Cleaveland Guardians in Game 5, sending his New York Yankees to the World Series to face Shoshei Ohtani and the LA Rams.
 
The Yankees outfielder will be a free agent this offseason and could sign a deal worth US$500Million dollars. 

Only in the USA: Major League Baseball has got the World Series of its dreams with two titans of the sport meeting on the biggest stage for the first time in more than four decades, when it begins tomorrow at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

The last time the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers met in a World Series was in 1981, so there is a lot of pent up interest and demand for tickets among their fans.

The cheapest ticket available for all of the games at Dodger Stadium is US$1,074 while Yankee Stadium has standing room passes for US$896 before fees and seats starting at US$981 before fees, according to the New York Post.

At the other end of the scale, a front row seat near the dugout will set you back an eye-watering $US30,000.

Broadcasters are also licking their lips, with total viewership tipped to surpass this year’s NBA finals - which averaged 11.3 million viewers per game.

Last year’s MLB Finals was a record low 9.1 million average viewers, watching the Texas Rangers claim their first World Series title, beating the Arizona Diamondbacks.

And that’s a wrap peeps!

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