BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 121 (Defoe 24, Smith 21, Chapman 16) Mersey Tigers 58 (Hulsen 17, Lockett 16, Eboigbe 12) The Newcastle Eagles swept aside the Mersey Tigers – winning 121-58 – to move clear of the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders at the summit of the BBL Championship table. The Eagles had seven players…
BBL Team Of The Week – Week 18 It was a landmark weekend as one player provided the best performance valuation of the season. Brice Fantazia (Glasgow Rocks) It’s a debut appearance in our line-up for the Rocks’ guard after he posted his best performance of what is now his second stint with the Scottish…
Grassroots Campaign Launched to Dispute British Basketball Funding Cut A grass roots campaign has been launched by members of the basketball community in the United Kingdom, urging UK Sport to reconsider their decision not to allocate funding to British basketball for the next Olympic cycle to 2016. ‘Fund British Basketball’, a website with an accompanying…
BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 107 (Chapman 41, Smith 22, Defoe 12) One Health Sharks Sheffield 86 (Holmes/Jemison 18, Tuck 13) Newcastle Eagles bounced back from their disappointment of losing the BBL Cup Final last weekend to get their BBL Championship back in full swing thanks to a highly impressive 107-86 victory over the One Health…
The Basketball All Party Parliament Group, under the chairmanship of Sharon Hodgson, MP, met at the House of Commons on Tuesday, 15th January, 2013, to discuss the crisis in basketball engendered by recent funding decisions by UK Sport and Sport England. The meeting follows recent questions in the House of Commons on 10th January 2013…
Newcastle Eagles v One Heatlh Sharks Sheffield Friday 18 January 2013 Sport Central (19:30) Despite the poor weather the Eagles (as at 5.30pm) will still be playing tonight at Sport Central against Sheffield Sharks. The club are looking to bounce back from their BBL Cup final loss when they host One Health Sharks Sheffield on…
Team Of The Week – Week 17 Our line-up this week includes a certain player who has more than one reason to celebrate after lifting the BBL Cup. BJ Holmes (One Health Sharks Sheffield) The Sharks have been resurgent of late and BJ Holmes has played his part in this renaissance with some excellent displays…
BBL Cup Final Newcastle Eagles 80 (Chapman 29, Smith 17, Huffman 13) Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders 85 (Couisnard 17, A nderson/Rowe 15) The Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders ended a 12 year wait for silverware as they secured the BBL Cup in thrilling fashion as they defeated the Newcastle Eagles 80-85 at the National…
As the big day approaches our regional media have put a focus on the Eagles once more, you can find all latest news and previews at the following sites: For BBC North incite follow lasts nights news from 23:20: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ph8kf/Look_North_(North_East_and_Cumbria)_11_01_2013/ For ITV Tyne Tees view go to: http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/story/2012-05-08/tyne-tees-sport/ Our friends at Sky Tyne and Wear…
