21-10-2023 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S07E51 #TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 07 Episode 51 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Tuesday morning 21 November 2023.Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Blue Continent. In combat sports: After scoring six straight wins inside the Octagon, Dricus Du Plessis will receive his first shot at UFC gold in 2024.As announced by UFC CEO Dana White earlier this month, the South African tough guy will be the first man to challenge newly crowned UFC Middleweight World Champion Sean Strickland when they headline UFC297 on 20 January 2024 in Toronto, Canada.In rugby league: The Eels Brad Arthur enters a make or break contract year and needs to prove he is worth going forward with, after years of near misses.Also Dylan Brown needs to repay his team and deliver on his pay packet after his suspension rocked their finals hopes last year.And the Eels might need to go to market if their two Hooker options fail to stand up following Josh Hodgson’s retirement and Reed Mahoney’s defection to the Bulldogs in consecutive seasons.In SportsBiz: Lionel Messi's six shirts from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar could become the most valuable game-worn item of football memorabilia if they sell for more than the US$9.3Million price tag for Diego Maradona's shirt that was worn during the 1986 quarter-final victory over England, during which he scored his infamous 'Hand of God' goalSotheby's estimates the shirts worn by the Argentina Captain in Qatar, including during the final against France in December 2022, could fetch more than US$10Million.Messi shared news of the auction on social media, announcing a portion of the proceeds would be donated to a Barcelona Children's Hospital, for children suffering from rare diseases.Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA Finals jersey, which sold for $10.1M at Sotheby's in New York in September 2022, holds the current record for a game-worn item of sports memorabilia.And finally today – remember the Blade Runner?Oscar Pistorius will have a second chance at parole at a hearing on Friday after he was wrongly ruled ineligible for early release from prison in March.South Africa’s department of corrections said in a statement sent to the press yesterday that a parole board will consider the former Olympic runner’s case again this week and decide “whether the inmate is suitable or not for social integration.”Pistorius, a world-famous double-amputee athlete who broke barriers by competing on carbon-fiber running blades at the 2012 London Olympics, has been in prison since late 2014 for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.And that’s a wrap!For TeivovoSports.com I’m Culden Kamea – please hit the like and subscribe buttons below if you want to receive more Pasifika sports highlights on Breakfast Bites.Mahalo, Kakite and tank you all too mas for all your love and support.#TEIVOVORugby #TEIVOVODigital #TeivovoRugby #TeivovoDigital #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #Raka #team #rugbytraining #sports #FRU #Fiji #womensrugby #rugbygirls #wrugby #ladiesrugby #womeninsport #woman #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #fitness #weightlifting #training #team #rugbytraining #sports #rakavi #DevelopmentFiji