If you take your plaudits when you win you have to take the brickbats when you lose. Particularly when you get dominated on both ends of the floor, writes Jeff King. Esh Group Eagles Newcastle’s massive offensive power, bar Saah Nimley, went missing, defensively the crucial rebounds fell to Plymouth. It all added up to…
So, settled in to the hotel at Plymouth which according to my match report is a suburb of Bristol, my roomie Mr Forrester and I took advantage of my free BT Sport subscription and watched the first part of England’s demise in The Ashes up to lunch. That was all we watched, sleep was needed…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle flew in to Bristol and shot down the home-town Flyers with perhaps their best defensive display of the season so far, writes Jeff King. The Eagles were in the main disciplined in their intent and carried out their game plan well to take their ninth consecutive win. In doing so they…
With Esh Group Eagles Newcastle facing a tough and long road trip taking in two games in two days this weekend, who better than to preview those games than new signing Jamal Williams, writes Jeff King. Williams debuted in last Friday’s tight home win against Sheffield playing almost 15 minutes in a great cameo appearance…
So, we’re off on a road trip that for me starts in and finishes in Cramlington visiting Byker, Bristol, Plymouth and Byker again. If I have my maths right, a little old round trip of 848 miles for 80 minutes of basketball, I must be mad! No, I must be dedicated, and I must be…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle’s preparations for this weekend’s vital double-header road trip at Bristol and Plymouth has been hampered by international call-ups, writes Jeff King. But, the players know that they must put that behind them and come-up with the formula to keep their 100% BBL Championship record complete. One of those players that has…
All this month NewcastleCan have been giving you the chance to win four free tickets for one of our games simply by logging your weight loss with them – and there’s still time to enter by joining the movement! NewcastleCan is bringing the city together to change the way we shop, cook, eat, live, work…
This summer the British Basketball League announced that, in addition to being able to watch every game with a LiveBasketball.TV subscription this season and 23 live fixtures on BBC Sport from December, fans will be able to enjoy a free live game each week on UNILAD Sport’s Facebook Page. Our Eagles are in a double-header away weekend at Bristol…
The British Basketball League have just announced their pick of players from last week’s games and yet again our Eagles star. Two of our roster line-up in the BBL’s dream team this week and leading them out is Jaysean Paige, who becomes the first player so far this season to record four starting appearances. Following…
