The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles face their toughest Women’s Basketball League regular season task on Sunday evening with a trip to Oaklands University to take on the all-conquering London Lions. Whilst nothing in sport is a guarantee it would be a result of seismic proportions should Matt Newby’s team come back to Tyneside with a…
Tajh Green has warned against complacency as a buoyant Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles look to bag back-to-back wins in Manchester. Victory in this afternoon’s clash against the Giants will lift Marc Steutel’s men back into the top four of the British Basketball League Championship. But Green insisted his former club will be no pushovers and…
Fit-again Josh Ward-Hibbert expects two of the most forward-thinking franchises in British basketball to serve up a typically feisty cross-border battle tonight. The former London forward wants both Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles and Caledonia Gladiators to flourish at home and abroad for seasons to come. But Ward-Hibbert draws the line at helping the Scots to…
The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles women without a game in four weeks ultimately ran out of steam and game legs in the final stretch against Essex Rebels as they returned to the court in the Women’s British Basketball League on Saturday night. The Eagles had not played since they lost in the first round of…
Ultimately a basketball game is played over four quarters and forty minutes and not decided until the final buzzer. But somewhere within those times and periods there are decisive moments. For The Eagles that came early in this game. Cheshire this season have been almost everyone’s surprise package. Few would have tipped them to be…
Sparks will fly when Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles seek to seize the initiative in this season’s Championship series against British Basketball League Trophy winners Cheshire Phoenix. That’s the verdict of firebrand guard Larry Austin Jr and head coach Marc Steutel with both predicting another feisty affair between two fierce rivals. Newcastle head to Cheshire tonight…
Perhaps the worry going into this match for the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles was their lack of game time balanced against the fresh Essex Rebels who have played all of January. The Rebels run in the Women’s British Basketball League Trophy had taken them all the way to the final which they lost against the…
Darius Defoe surpassed 6,500 British Basketball League Championship points on his way to another mighty double-figure haul against his hometown team. But a typically gutsy display from the most decorated player in domestic hoops history wasn’t enough to down deadeye London Lions. The league leaders broke the game wide open during a devastating spell of…
Tosan Evbuomwan is on the brink of joining an elite group of British ballers after the Geordie star was snapped up by NBA giants Memphis Grizzlies. The Western Conference franchise have signed the Newcastle Eagles Academy graduate to a 10-day contract. “This is an incredible opportunity for Tosan, one that he has earned through hard…
