Newcastle Eagles duo Lynard Stewart and Steve Leven are celebrating today after being handed big boosts ahead of this weekend’s title run-in. The irrepressible Stewart has rightly been named BBL Player of the Month after a string of stellar performances during March, while Leven has been handed a shock place in the provisional Great Britain…
Molten Player of the Month: Lynard Stewart, Newcastle Eagles Three-time BBL All-Star Lynard Stewart, of the league-leading Newcastle Eagles, has won the Molten Player of the Month award for March. The 6’8” centre has had a startling month and has recorded double-doubles (points and rebounds) in his last five games, culminating in 18 points and…
Newcastle Eagles moved another step closer to securing the BBL Championship League title after an 82-68 victory over the Marshall MK Lions at the MetroRadio Arena on Friday evening. It was the Lions who started the stronger and took an early 14-20 lead midway through the opening period, but the Eagles came back into the…
Guildford Heat 86 Newcastle Eagles 79 NEWCASTLE Eagles’ fabulous 12-game winning streak in the league came to an end in Guildford yesterday. Current champions Heat kept their hopes of retaining their title alive with a pulsating win in a game they couldn’t afford to lose, writes JEFF KING. It’s now three games and three losses…
NEWCASTLE Eagles took a giant step towards landing the BBL league championship after ripping Plymouth Raiders to shreds in a sensational 94- 78 win last night. It was a monumental performance by Fab Flournoy and his team as they humiliated the Raiders, not only delivering a killer blow to their title dreams but hammering down…
Newcastle Eagles’ coach Fabulous Flournoy is looking forward to a weekend of action which could go a long way towards deciding the destination of the BBL Championship title this season. Flournoy’s team host second-placed Kularoos Plymouth Raiders on Friday before travelling to third placed Guildford Heat two days later, and he knows the importance of…
More than £200 was raised for Northumbrian Water’s international adopted charity, WaterAid, at the recent Eagles v Sheffield Sharks basketball match. Eagles coach, Fab Flournoy, helped to encourage fans to support the life saving charity by riding the water company’s ‘toilet bike’! WaterAid provides clean, safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education in 17 countries…
Newcastle Eagles kept their impressive run in the BBL Championship going thanks to an 83-97 victory over the BiG Storage Cheshire Jets at the Northgate Arena on Sunday evening. In a close game through the first three quarters, it was the Eagles who held a slender lead at 60-67 going into the final stanza. In…
NEWCASTLE Eagles club captain Andrew Bridge has vowed that he will spend the rest of his playing career on Tyneside – unless he is axed. Long-serving Bridge has been with Fabulous Flournoy’s men for six years, and has won every major accolade in British basketball. But with Newcastle’s incapacity to pick up silverware in a…
