The Newcastle Eagles crashed to a last-second defeat to the Cheshire Phoenix, ending the club’s quest for a fourth successive BBL Cup. A turnover with four seconds gifted Cheshire the ball and former Eagle Orlan Jackson scored the winning lay-up at the buzzer. The result was all the more shocking after the Eagles roared from…
A cacophony of heartfelt applause for the late Kevin Cadle, prior to tip-off at Sport Central, served as a timely reminder that there’s more to life than basketball. But the 62-year-old American coach and commentator, who passed away suddenly earlier this week, would have vehemently challenged that view once the first whistle had sounded. And…
Friday 13 was always going to be unlucky for one of the BBL’s early-season pacesetters. But Fabulous Flournoy makes his own luck. And this was a battling win achieved in the New Yorker’s own, irrepressible image: a hard-fought victory built on steely determination down the stretch. Nothing more and nothing less. In the weeks and…
Question? When is a sporting Giant-killing not a shock result? Answer, when Esh Group Eagles Newcastle are in town, writes Jeff King. The irresistible Eagles moved to 3 – 0 for the season to set-up a huge night in Northumbria University Sport Central this coming Friday night. That’s when the also unbeaten and 3 –…
Five-and-a-half years is a long time in basketball. Just ask Glasgow Rocks. The border raiders must go back as far as 2012 to find evidence of their most recent victory against Newcastle Eagles – an 85-77 win on April Fool’s Day. David Cameron was leading a coalition government, Queen Elizabeth had just celebrated her diamond…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle opened their BBL Championship challenge on the road in Leeds tonight, writes Jeff King. And what a sensational opener it was too as Fab Flournoy’s black and white warriors laid siege to Leeds’s doors and forced them down in some style. As statements and markers go this must be one of…
Basketball’s equivalent of Cricket’s T20 blast arrived in The UK yesterday with Barry Hearn’s Matchroom Productions bringing their heavy metal support to British Basketball, writes Jeff King. The competition featured the top eight from last season’s BBL Championship table was uncharted territory that featured golden buzzer power-plays, 12-minute games, 5 point shooting lines, running clocks…
As pre-season programmes go things could hardly have gone better for the Newcastle Eagles – three games, three wins and nothing more than the odd niggle mean the men in black head into next weekend’s Betway All-Stars Basketball tournament in confident mood. By keeping it in the family the most decorated franchise in the history…
