Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 50 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 21 August 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is partly cloudy and 20 degrees Celsius again at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: Three weeks after Antoine Dupont and company were crowned Olympic Rugby 7s Champions, the short-game interest in France switches to the enhanced “Super7s” - the first professional Sevens Club Championship in the country, featuring Argentina’s Marcos Moneta and Juan Imhoff as well as Fijian 7s star, Semi Kunatani.

This season has three rounds scheduled – Mont-de-Marsan this Saturday, La Rochelle on 24 August and Pau 31 August – before culminating with a finals day in Paris on 01 February.

And in Rugby League: The NRL will announce a new Immortal at tonight’s black tie Hall of Fame event at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Who will it be? The contenders make one hell of an honour roll.

Fifteen judges selected one player each from the 121 players in the NRL’s Hall of Fame.

H\So how do you split Ricky Stuart or Allan Langer? Laurie Daley or Brett Kenny? Darren Lockyer or Brad Fittler?

Even trying to separate ex-Melbourne Storm champions Cameron Smith and Billy Slater is difficult.

Greg Inglis or Steve Renouf? Johnathan Thurston or Cooper Cronk?

Who will it be?

In Football: Jamie Vardy made Tottenham pay for their erratic finishing with a typically predatory header, capping his surprise appearance just days after he had been ruled out after suffering a pre-season injury.

Vardy’s second half equaliser gave Leicester a 1-1 draw against Tottenham on their return to the Premier League at King Power Stadium.

In UFC: Kiwi-Nigerian UFC fighter, Israel Adesanya faces a tough road ahead. He had been in 12 title fights in a row but has now lost two straight to Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis.
Adesanya will now have to earn his stripes and potentially take on lesser-known opponents to regain his standing.

Numerous other middleweights present a danger, while Rob Whittaker and Khamzat Chimaev have moved ahead of Adesanya for a title shot.

And in Sportsbiz: US$360,000 is the big bonus payout for Taiga Tabuchi, the substitute caddie last weekend for Hideki Matsuyama, winner of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, for which Matsuyama earned US$3.6Million.

PGA Tour professionals typically pay their full-time caddies 10% of their prize money after winning a tournament. 

Matsuyama’s regular caddie and the golfer’s coach, were unable to enter the US, after their passports were stolen in London last week and the pair returned home to Japan.

Should Matsuyama even take them back?

And that’s a wrap!
 
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