Health chiefs have hailed one of British basketball’s biggest successes as a potential life-saver as kids flock to join a sporting revolution. Hoops4Health made its debut on Tyneside in 2002 as Newcastle Eagles set about getting school children active. And after touching the lives of more than 60,000 kids across the North East that fledgling…
Newcastle Eagles have struck a deal with club captain Andrew Bridge to remain on Tyneside for another season in what will be his seventh successive campaign with the club. Having led the side to the BBL league title in his first year as captain having taken the mantle from TJ Walker, Chesterfield born Bridge is…
This coming season sees the first School of excellence under 12 and under 14 girls’ teams. Girls’ have been taken through their paces over the past month at trials by Deirdre Hayes and various Eagles Community Foundation female coaches. Hayes, the England under 18 girls’ coach, took the trials at Westgate Centre for Sport so…
REIGNING league champions Newcastle Eagles have made an early statement of intent to any rivals eyeing their crown after moving swiftly to re-sign BBL Player of the Year Lynard Stewart. The move will delight the club’s supporters who had their season ended on a sour note after failure in the play-offs. And it also stops…
Prime Minister Gordon Brown talked basketball with one of Newcastle’s most successful sporting imports as Fabulous Flournoy picked up yet another prestigious honour. The Newcastle Eagles coach visited 10 Downing Street to pick up a Show Racism The Red Card Hall of Fame award. And Flournoy made history by becoming the first basketball player to…
Team Northumbria Women’s basketball Hoops star Ellen “Loui” Hall capped a stunning top flight campaign when the forward was named the EBL’s Women’s Division 1 2008 Most Valuable Player. Hall followed in the footsteps of her male counterpart Lynard Stewart. The Newcastle Eagles centre was named Molton Player of the Year. Similar to Hall’s award…
This week Newcastle Eagles own Fab Flournoy was invited to 10 Downing Street to be inducted into the Show Racism the Red Card hall of fame. Fab was brushing shoulders with the likes of Shaka Hislop, Heather Small and Gordon Brown himself. Further story to follow.
Newcastle Eagles 92 (32,54,67) (Babalola 23, Attah/Defoe/Spragg12) Kularoos Plymouth Raiders 96 (19,33,66) (Moore 26, Lasker 19, Noel 16) Kularoos Plymouth Raiders came from behind to defeat Newcastle Eagles in the BBL Championship 3rd/4th Place Play-off, by a score of 96-92. Eagles were fastest out of the blocks, bagging the opening 12 points of the game,…
Newcastle Eagles 63 (12,31,51) (Levan 19, Stewart/Flournoy 14) Marshall MK Lions 72 (18,33,53) (Brown 17, Williams 13, New/Youngblood 12) It was a tight opening to the game, with both teams struggling to make their shots. However, Lions enjoyed more success and led 11-4 early on. Eagles suffered an early scare as Lynard Stewart fell awkwardly,…
