This has been a week of arrivals for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle as their new-look roster has flown in from all over the globe to prepare for the 2017/18 British Basketball League season, wrote Jeff King for the Sunday Sun newspaper yesterday. From Zagreb to Winnipeg, from Copenhagen to New York and from Toronto to…
Well in a week where if you read about North East sport in the popular press all you here is doom and gloom, the Head Coach having thinly disguised pops at The Owner and the inability to get the players they want over the line, let’s look at a properly run professional sports team in…
As his coaching colleagues at Esh Group Eagles Newcastle were putting together the recently announced exciting new roster for the 2017/18 season fellow Eagles BBL Assistant Coach, Ian Macleod, was having an exciting and rewarding experience of his own, writes Jeff King. Macleod who made the step-up from coaching The Eagles School of Excellence Under…
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys and whatever else you want to call yourself, there we have it, The 2017/18 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle. Whadda Y’all Think? I think I’m pretty excited and you should be too. Let’s have a little recap and a bit of fun too although, the fun may get me…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle have continued the international recruitment theme as they complete their 2017/18 roster with Danish National Team player Zarko Jukic, writes Jeff King. The 6’ 7” forward despite being only 23-year-old already has a wealth of European experience to bring to Tyneside. He started in the senior basketball ranks as a teenager…
So, eight in or is it nine? We never announce Fab as a player but he’s still our Coach and he’s always said that when he stops playing he’ll stop coaching so, make of that what you will. Now if you want to go 5 x 5 in practice you need 10 players. Wonder if…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle are delighted that for the 14th season in a row they can announce that the hugely-popular fans favourite Darius Defoe will be stepping out for them on court once again this season, writes Jeff King. The British power forward is one of the most consistent players ever to grace The BBL…
The “Newcastle Eagles Select” side went down to Leicester on Tuesday night to take on the University of Portland Pilots NCAA Division 1 side who play in the West Coast Conference and what a thriller of a game it was with The Pilots taking the victory 67 – 66 right on the final buzzer. The…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle have continued their cosmopolitan recruitment of new talent by turning to Manitoba, Canada to bring in their eighth recruit of the season by turning one of the leaders of The Bisons programme into a fledgling Eagle, writes Jeff King. Amarjit “AJ” Basi will become a professional basketball player for the first…
