Newcastle Eagles WBBL fans can expect relative success in the club’s first top flight season – after sharp shooting siblings Adoniah and Keziah Lewis committed to Chris Bunten’s rapidly expanding roster. The New Zealand-born dual nationals have not played for the same club side since they were teenagers back home on the North Island. But…
The 2018-19 British Basketball League season will be a monumental one for the Esh Group Eagles Newcastle with the opening of our new Eagles Community Arena home marking the biggest move in the club’s history since the franchise became the Eagles after relocating to the city over 20 years ago. A legacy of silverware success…
The cameras were rolling at our Eagles Community Arena this week where our constructors Esh Group are working hard to meet the December deadline for our monumental move. Thanks to ITV Tyne Tees for this great report on the progress of our new ‘nest’ build so far and talking to our managing director Paul Blake…
On Saturday night in Manchester the club, our foundation, its trustees and our volunteers had reason to celebrate as Basketball England revealed the winners of their 2018 national Volunteer Awards. The ceremony was the cornerstone of the Basketball England National Game Conference which took place in the day, covering topics from FIBA rule changes to…
Our Eagles have returned home from their week in Belgium for some intensive pre-season training and challenging first games against some excellent competition to put them to the test ahead of their first tastes of BBL action as a new squad this week and next. Your first chances to see the new team in action…
Basketball England have announced their annual awards which recognise the volunteers doing great things for our game across the country. There are a number of new award categories for 2018 along with existing ones which all be presented at a new Volunteer Awards dinner as part of the new Basketball England Game Conference in September….
Our Esh Group Eagles Newcastle will fly out to Europe to challenge themselves against Belgian opposition this pre-season before returning home for further tests against US and BBL squads. The new team will leave UK soil on Tuesday 28 August and return home on the Sunday of that week after two games in Belgium, provisionally scheduled…
It has been a few weeks since we brought you an update from our Eagles Community Arena building site, so we are excited to show you how quickly our constructors Esh Group have got our new ‘nest’ flying-up. If you have passed the venue on Scotswood Road you will have seen a huge amount of progress recently…
All summer we have been hearing from former Eagles and BBL alumni with connections to our club, and the email alerts were flying in today as ex-player Joe Chapman has been making the news back home in the US where he is coaching a team who are just two wins away from a $2 million…
