We can now confirm our 2020-21 BBL Cup Quarter-Finals tip-off will be at home against Bristol Flyers on Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 19:30. As the winners of Group 3, which saw runners-up Leicester Riders and third placed London Lions advancing to the Quarter-Finals, our Eagles are facing the Flyers who finished as the number…
Grab a piece of history and sponsor your favourite Eagles WBBL player’s shooting shirt this season! Kit sponsors get their name on the player’s page of our website, on our game day team sheets (when fans are allowed into games and if programmes can be sold) and the sponsored player’s shooting shirt at the end of the season. Check the sponsorship availability…
Newcastle Eagles WBBL sponsors WL Distillery have pledged to donate 10% of this week’s sales to the foundation when gin lovers add the coupon ‘WLEagles‘ in their shopping cart. Visit the WL Distillery website and make a Christmas purchase by the end of this Sunday 13 December to get a great present and raise much needed…
At the end of any basketball match the only statistic that matters is the final score. But ultimately in the disappointing one-point defeat yesterday afternoon there may be others that are just as telling for Newcastle Eagles and Head Coach Ian Macleod. Shooting only 2 of 23 from three-point range in a single-digit loss is…
It was interesting that in amongst all the deserved plaudits for Newcastle Eagles and the likes of Rahmon Fletcher, Justin Gordon, Evan Maxwell and Cortez Edwards, Head Coach Ian MacLeod picked out another player for a special mention after Thursday night’s game That player was 36-year-old veteran forward Darius Defoe currently plying his trade in…
On Thursday night the first two games in the 2020-21 BBL Championship tipped-off at the Eagles Community Arena live on Sky Sports. Take a look behind the scenes as the biggest outside broadcast the arena has hosted gave viewers on Sky Sports Arena and Main Event incredible coverage of the Cheshire Phoenix beating Sheffield Sharks,…
Flash Gordon on the TV? It must be nearly Christmas. As the BBL returned to Sky Sports, Justin Gordon took the opportunity to treat a nationwide audience to a very special highlights reel. And Newcastle fans will be demanding repeats of the colourful forward’s double double for years to come. Gordon bagged 26 points and…
Newcastle Eagles must tame London Lions in tonight’s league opener if the men in black are to consider themselves genuine title contenders. That’s the verdict of Drew Lasker as the multi-tasking Texan prepares to juggle his new role as Sky Sports pundit with that of impact player off the Newcastle bench. Back-to-back fixtures at the Eagles…
Battling Newcastle Eagles WBBL bowed out of this season’s WBBL Cup but basketball was the winner on Tyneside as an absorbing clash provided a thrilling advert for the women’s game. Newcastle’s 96-71 defeat to Leicester didn’t tell the true story as a late burst from the Riders put the gloss on a deceiving scoreline. And…
