Today is International Women’s Day 2019 and in this first year with our own Women’s British Basketball League team we wanted to mark the day by celebrating them and their achievements to date in this inaugural season as Eagles. After 21 games of WBBL action and a total of nine wins, with six in the…
Giulia Simioni has turned up the heat in our Eagles Community Arena with big displays both in leadership as our WBBL team captain and on-court in recent home wins. This has being recognised by the league who have awarded our Swiss International point guard the Molten WBBL Player of the Month for February. Across the…
Congratulations to our rising Academy star Theo Riley who has received the Week 19 EABL Player of the Week award. The guard picked up a double-double with 31 points and 11 rebounds, as well as 5 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks in our EABL team’s road win at SGS College last week. EABL team…
At half-time this Friday night as our Eagles take on the Bristol Flyers, we have some very special entertainment for fans packing out our Eagles Community Arena as 20-year-old local hip-hop artist Kay Greyson performs live. Kay is from the West End of Newcastle, only steps away from our new home, and has been an…
Did you know you can beat the ticket collection desks queue on game nights and choose to print your tickets at home when your purchase to speed up entry into the arena? Select Print Tickets@Home as the delivery method when you check out and bring the printout along to the arena to enter via the…
It’s back-to-back appearances in the BBL’s pick of the players for Defoe after leading us to a tough overtime win at home to Glasgow last week. An impressive performance at home which secured Darius a place in last week’s All-Star Five was topped on Friday night when he tallied 26 points, including 12 of 13…
The BBL have just announced that the British Basketball Play-Off Finals tickets are now on sale. The countdown is on to one of the biggest events in the calendar, with less than 100 days to go until the event at The O2 Arena. The showpiece season finale is back at the landmark venue for the…
The BBL and Matchroom Sport have announced that the British Basketball All-Stars Championship will return for 2019 on Sunday 13 October. This huge event will again take place at the Copper Box Arena in London with tickets going on sale from this coming Monday 18 February at 10am. Featuring multiple 12-minute games, an All-Star 5-point…
Darius Defoe set the tone early in our first win at our Eagles Community Arena last Friday night as we battled past Manchester Giants and has landed himself a place in the BBL All-Star Five for week 19 of the season. DD finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds in the 93-85 victory, whilst shooting…
