Big time international basketball returns to the North East next year after Great Britain confirmed plans to revisit its popular Newcastle base. The Vertu Motors Arena has become a home from home for the senior men’s roster with bumper crowds backing the national team on Tyneside. And with Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles’ playcaller Marc Steutel…
Marc Steutel insists Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles can become a formidable force in the British Basketball League after the short-handed men in black forced their way back into the Championship’s top four. An eye-catching 113-91 win at Cheshire Phoenix on Sunday underlined the potential at the heart of this season’s remodelled roster. And Newcastle have…
Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles are sweating on the fitness of key man Darius Defoe ahead of Sunday’s tough trip to Cheshire Phoenix. The men in black are already missing big man Will Neighbour and all-rounder Scott Spencer as they prepare to face this season’s surprise package. But Defoe must be a doubt after British basketball’s…
Malcolm Delpeche is banking on another European boost as Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles eye a much-needed return to form in Romania tonight. The men in black launched a seven-game winning streak on the back of last month’s impressive homecourt victory against Valmiera Glass VIA. And a timely victory against in-form CSO Voluntari would represent another…
Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles have confirmed summer signings Scott Spencer and Will Neighbour have played their last games of 2023. The sidelined duo will sit out this month’s trips to CSO Voluntari, Cheshire Phoenix and Plymouth City Patriots. And neither Neighbour nor Spencer will be available for Newcastle’s final homecourt clash of the calendar year…
Tajh Green has leapt to the defence of team-mate Larry Austin Jr after the incensed US guard was thrown out of Friday’s ill-tempered affair against Bristol Flyers. Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles’s former Cheshire Phoenix star picked up two technical fouls within the space of a minute after taking the officials to task over a brutal…
Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles slipped to a second successive homecourt defeat as another physical fixture was decided down the stretch. Malcolm Delpeche levelled the scores at 63-63 with the first basket of the fourth quarter before battling Bristol Flyers turned the game on its head. The visitors went on an 11-0 tear to establish an…
Marc Steutel has challenged his Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles’ to build again — starting with the Friday night Sky Sports clash against Bristol Flyers. The club’s seven-game winning streak was abruptly halted by Surrey Scorchers in front of a full house at the Vertu Motors Arena last week. But Steutel is confident his reshaped roster…
Marc Steutel has paid tribute to Bristol’s comeback king Rowell Graham-Bell ahead of Friday’s Vertu Motors Arena showdown with the Flyers. But the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles playcaller is keeping his fingers tightly crossed that the homegrown star saves his best form for after this week’s sell-out clash on Tyneside. Steutel worked with Graham-Bell at Great Britain…
