Going into the Christmas holidays there are often thoughts cast by players that haven’t been able to get home to be with their families and how it can be tough to be a pro-player at times. For one young man from the North-East that’s equally true and he’s not even a professional. Not yet he…
The Newcastle Eagles gave their loyal fans the Christmas present they wanted with a sparkling demolition of Manchester Giants at The Eagles Community Arena on Friday night. It was a champagne celebration of a performance as they powered home 131 – 63. True, Manchester were under-strength and short-handed but they still had to be dealt with…
Last night ahead of our big BBL Championship win against Manchester Giants we arranged a collection for the Newcastle West End Foodbank on the arena’s front plaza. Even over an hour before tip-off as you can see from the photo we were on our way to filling the van supplied to us by proud Eagles sponsor Vertu…
What you see is what you Gettys with Newcastle Eagles’ all-action new signing. In fact, you get more. CJ Gettys is seven feet of pure power, passion and unrelenting professionalism. And after waiting four weeks to make a home debut he described as ‘long overdue’, the new kid on the block made up for lost time…
The Eagles may have only had two games in the last five weeks but they were games where American forward Mike Morsell firmly announced his arrival on the BBL scene with two great performances. First off, he racked up 30 points albeit in a losing cause in the BBL Cup quarter final down in Worcester…
Two of the rising stars of the North East basketball scene are shooting for international glory this month. Newcastle Eagles Academy products Sauveur Kande and Yemisi Mefful will represent England at home and abroad. And both look set to inspire the next generation of homegrown talent with a number of young pretenders snapping at their…
CJ Gettys finally gets to experience the red hot atmosphere of a Newcastle Eagles match night as the BBL returns to Tyneside this weekend. And the towering centre revealed his long-awaited home debut is long overdue – four weeks after he inked a deal to play in black and white. Gettys marked his league debut…
This Friday night BBL action is back at the ECA in the first of three festive fixtures, so it’s time for another episode of The Midweek Interview series and Dan caught up with Mike Morsell after this morning’s training: Tickets are available for all three games from our box office now and throughout the Christmas…
Our women were on fire over the weekend and racked-up another ‘W’ in a six game winning streak that now sees them sitting at the top of the WBBL for the first time in the franchise’s history. It is a rare occurrence in the WBBL’s All-Star Five for a trio of players from the same…
