Newcastle Eagles are delighted to have added 6ft 8in Tafari ‘Tap’ Toney to their squad for the forthcoming 2008/09 BBL season. The league champions have clinched the signature of Toney who has graduated from the University of Houston where he averaged 6.8 points and 6.3 rebounds during 21 minutes per game for the Cougars in…
Londoner Darius Defoe has signed for a fifth consecutive season with Newcastle Eagles as he bids to improve on his incredible haul of BBL medals despite still only being 23-years-old. The forward joined the club in the summer of 2004 from Hackney White Heat and has since been an important part of a rise to…
The fixtures for the 2008/09 BBL Championship season have been announced, along with the draw for the BBL Cup and the BBL Trophy groups. The new campaign opens with a bang as the reigning league champions, the Newcastle Eagles, host the BBL Championship Playoff and Trophy double winners, the Guildford Heat, at the MetroRadio Arena…
Newcastle Eagles managing director Paul Blake today spoke of the club’s decision not to participate in European competition for the coming 2008/9 season. “This was a very difficult decision for me to make as we were in the driving seat for European entry and it is my ultimate goal for the club to be playing…
Former BBL Player of the Season Trey Moore has been added to the roster of the Newcastle Eagles ahead of the forthcoming 2008/09 season. The 33-year-old Mississippi State graduate will help the Eagles defend their BBL Championship title, a piece of silverware that Moore has already experienced winning during his first spell with the BiG…
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…
