Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 24 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Monday morning 28 October 2024.
 
Happy birthday Mere Vasu!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is 22 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Netball: Australian netball great Nat Medhurst has delivered some brutal truths to the “shell shocked” Diamonds after the world champions coughed up the Constellation Cup to the Silver Ferns for just the third time in history – 41-63 in Perth yesterday.
 
In Rugby League: The Kangaroos prevailed in Christchurch with a 22-10 win over the Kiwis, in the Pacific Championships.
 
For Australia, hooker Harry Grant led the way and consistently schemed from behind the ruck, being supported by a host of big-name stars.

Meanwhile, for New Zealand, veteran Shaun Johnson showed he’s still got it, two months after he played his final NRL game.

Meanwhile, the Cook Islands Aitu are on their way to Port Moresby as a sacrifice to the Papua New Guinea Kumuls, in the Pacific Bowl.
 
In case you’re wondering where the Samoans are – they lost to England in the UK early this morning 18-34.
 
In Football: Lionel Messi’s postseason debut is putting MLS in the spotlight when Inter Miami hosts Atlanta United in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs.
 
The game will be free to stream on Apple TV, as part of a push to gain more viewers in the second season of a 10-year, US$2.5Billion deal with MLS.

Apple doesn’t release its TV ratings, but it reportedly surpassed 2 million subscribers for MLS last season.

Atlanta United will host Inter Miami in Game 2 next weekend. In September, nearly 68,000 fans turned out to Mercedes-Benz Stadium to watch Messi play there.

The MLS’s total regular season attendance tally was 11.4 million, up from 10.9 million in 2023 - a new record of 23,234 per game average.

In UFC: Ilia Topuria said he would knock Max Holloway out for the first time in his career — and that is exactly what happened in UFC308 in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

The UFC Featherweight King proved that he is the real deal, dropping Holloway with a brutal right hand, and then getting the job done with a left hook.

In the co-main event of UFC308, undefeated Russian, Khamzat Chimaev forced Australian, Robert Whittaker to tap out in one of the most violent submissions ever seen.

In the MLB World Series: Yoshinobu Yamamoto emerged from Shohei Ohtani's large shadow yesterday, to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a commanding lead in the World Series.
 
In just his first MLB season, Yamamato gave up one hit into the seventh innings, while Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman hit back-to-back home runs for the Dodgers 4-2 win over the New York Yankees to take a 2-0 World Series lead.

It’s “Showtime” sports fans, and that’s a wrap!

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