Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula and Welcome to Season 08 Episode 38 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a sunny and bright Wednesday morning 07 February 2024.Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Blue Continent. In rugby union and rugby league: While a Papua New Guinea-based team is leading the race to become the NRL’s 18th franchise, you gotta ask – how much the recent rioting across Papua New Guinea, especially in the capital Port Moresby, has damaged PNG’s strong expression of interest for that 18th NRL expansion franchise in 2027?Fiji, on the other hand is hosting its first ever NRL-sanctioned game on 24 February – a preseason clash between the Newcastle Knights and the Melbourne Storm in Lautoka.Plus they don’t have such violent riots and associated law and order problems (touch wood), plus the Kaiviti Silktails are competing very well in the NSWRL comp.In SportsBiz: US$8,023,800 is how much a collection of Air Jordan shoes worn by Michael Jordan during all six of the Chicago Bulls’ title-clinching games sold for at Sotheby’s - a world auction record for game-used shoes.The collection includes one of the following autographed shoes from each game: Air Jordan VI (1991), Air Jordan VII (’92), Air Jordan VIII (’93), Air Jordan XI (’96), Air Jordan XII (’97) and Air Jordan XIV (’98).In Football: On Monday, the host of the final of the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the USA was finally announced - New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, home to the NFL’s New York Jets and NY Giants, will host the tournament’s crown jewel along with seven other games.At that and with the release of other FIFA World Cup 2026 info, the football world truly started to realise how utterly bonkers the 2026 FIFA World Cup is going to be.Dallas’ AT&T Stadium will get nine games including a semi-final, Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host eight games including a semi-final, and Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium will host eight games including a quarter-final and two USA group games.Mexico will host the first two games of the tournament on 11 June, with the host nation playing at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca.Those are just five of the 16 venues hosting the whopping 104 games required to narrow down 48 teams, spread across 12 four-team pools, to one world champion.God bless America!In the NFL: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell dismissed conspiracy theories surrounding Taylor Swift as “nonsense” on Monday as the final countdown to this week’s Super Bowl gets under way in Las Vegas.Pop icon Swift’s burgeoning romance with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has been cited by right-wing nutters as evidence of a plot to rig the Super Bowl and help get US President Joe Biden re-elected.“The idea that this is pre-planned is just nonsense. It’s frankly not even worth talking about.”“The Taylor Swift effect is all positive. Travis and Taylor are wonderful young people. She knows great entertainment and I think that’s why she loves NFL football.“It’s great to have her part of it,” Goodell said.On Sunday, Swift made Grammys history by winning her fourth Album of the Year prize, the most of any performer in history.And that’s a wrap Swiftees!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