Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 07 Episode 11 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a bright and sunny Thursday morning 12 October 2023.

Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

And we start with rugby union, where Dan Carter of New Zealand, Thierry Dusautoir of France, George Smith of Australia, Juan Martín Hernández of Argentina and Bryan Habana of South Africa will become the latest rugby legends inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame at the World Rugby Awards in Paris on 29 October.

In rugby league: The Rugby League 2023 Pacific Championships kicks off this weekend 14-15 October with Australia versus Samoa men and Australia versus New Zealand women at Queensland Country Bank Stadium in sunny Townsville.

Plus the Papua New Guinea Kumuls versus Cook Islands men and Samoa versus Fiji women at Santos Stadium, Port Moresby.

In Football: American billionaire Bill Foley who owns English Premier League club Bournemouth has secured the licence for the new Auckland franchise that will join the A-League men’s and women’s competitions in the 2024-25 season.

Auckland is the largest city in Australia and New Zealand without a professional football team, despite football being the most popular team participation sport nationally in New Zealand.

In SportsBiz: Disney has been swamped with potential suitors for ESPN ever since CEO Bob Iger said in July that he’s open to bringing in strategic partners.

That comment has drawn in the likes of the NFL, NBA, and MLB, Amazon and Verizon. But a major Wall Street analyst, Laura Martin says the NFL should consider purchasing ABC from Disney to protect the scale-oriented broadcast television exposure that is a bedrock of the league’s economics.

“The NFL is standing by and witnessing the destruction of the linear TV ecosystem, with its powerful economics that largely flow to the NFL and other sports leagues,” Martin says. “The NFL is fiddling while Rome burns, in our view.”

“Content without distribution is worthless, no matter how good,” she said.

In Combat sports: “Fair enough,” Tim Tszyu shrugged, “So Mendoza is the bigger puncher? Big punching doesn’t win fights. I’m not here to debate who is a bigger puncher. If he thinks he is the bigger puncher, so be it. I couldn’t care less about anything he’s got. If he’s got Hercules’ arms so be it … he’s got to worry about me.”

And that’s a wrap!

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