This week tips-off the Retro Series 2023 as we throw it back to the 2004-05 season when our Eagles started lifting BBL silverware. EXPECT THROWBACK KITS, OLD-SKOOL TUNES, FAMOUS FACES AND MORE… The team will also be playing in a specially produced a limited edition retro reboot of that first winning kit, which is available to purchase on the shop online now…
Short-handed Newcastle suffered a sobering loss at the hands of champions-elect London as the Lions’ strength in depth overpowered the battling men in black. The visitors lined up at the Copperbox Arena shorn of starters Javion Hamlet and Hasahn French following Sunday’s heartbreaking defeat in Manchester. And with Ben Mockford still absent as he battles…
Marc Steutel insists his battling Eagles will fight to the finish as Newcastle launch a final bid to save their season. The men in black face a tough trip to London Lions tonight less than a week after coughing up the chance to beat the champions-elect on Tyneside. But with nine league games to go…
Somewhere, somehow, someway the Newcastle Eagles keep coming up with ways to lose a basketball game in what may well go down as one of their most frustrating seasons ever. On Friday night on their own court in the Vertu Motors Arena, they led Champions-elect London Lions by thirteen points with 11 minutes and 55…
Newcastle have reached the ‘finals countdown’ in their bid to punch a ticket for the post-season party. That’s the verdict of Darius Defoe as the BBL’s most decorated player prepares for this afternoon’s pivotal showdown with friend and former team-mate Rahmon Fletcher. The Eagles have 10 games to salvage a disappointing campaign as Marc Steutel’s…
Champions-elect London survived an almighty scare at the Vertu Motors Arena after Newcastle Eagles came within a whisker of ending the Lions’ 17-game BBL Championship winning streak. Marc Steutel’s men led until deep into another dramatic night on Tyneside but the league leaders proved their class to close out a barely deserved three-point victory. And…
It seems as if every week for Newcastle Eagles brings another must-win game and a chance to try and ignite a run to make the playoffs. Tonight is no exception despite it being the multi-talented London Lions that are in town. Last weekend was another one typical of what this BBL season seems to have…
Our Eagles forward Hashan French leads the league’s All-Star Five this week after a huge weekend in BBL Championship action. It’s a debut in the pick of the players for French follow our Eagles’ Friday night win as we split a weekend double-header with Leicester Riders. French was key in our first win in six…
Deadeye David Cohn experienced the best and worst of professional basketball after battling Newcastle Eagles narrowly missed out on famous back-to-back wins against Leicester Riders. Crestfallen Cohn cut a dejected figure as he headed to the locker room after picking up a second unsportsmanlike foul of the game five minutes from time. But had it…
