Newcastle Eagles Basketball team has helped educate special needs pupils in Tyne and Wear about improving their heart health thanks to a Healthy Heart Grant of over £9,000 to the Eagles Community Foundation from national charity, Heart Research UK and sandwich franchise SUBWAY® stores. The ‘Healthy Hearts Basketball Roadshow’, used the Newcastle Eagles players visiting…
The winners of a school competition to design artwork for the North East’s newest hospital have been announced. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle Eagles joined forces last year to deliver its ‘Hoops for Health’ community programme working with youngsters across Northumberland and North Tyneside. Since last autumn, professional basketball players have been working…
On the face of it a 74 – 66 away win for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle at Glasgow Rocks on a Sunday night does not seem the most significant match or result of the season. But, it became one of the most historic games in the history of The British Basketball League the moment that…
We take a look at who has been hot in the BBL during the month of January. Scoring machines It was the best month of the season for scoring power, with an astonishing 11 players smashing their way through the landmark of 20 points per game or more. In another coup for the ever-rising flame…
Tyne Metropolitan College Basketball Development Centre OPEN EVENING Tuesday 4th February 2014 5.30pm Arrival – 5.45pm Start – 8pm Finish Students attending must bring basketball kit for a practical session with the current players in the Basketball Development Centre led by Head Coach Marc Steutel. Learn more about the exciting opportunities that are available at…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle v Plymouth University Raiders Friday 24 January 2014 Sport Central (19:30) Fab Flournoy Fab Flournoy could barely have asked for any more in response to his teams’ bitterly disappointing finish to the BBL Cup Final. His players could easily have flopped again in their first game after the Final, when they…
Stuart Thomson and Esh Group Eagles Newcastle can complete a special double if they claim the season’s first piece of silverware in the BBL Cup Final against Leicester Riders on Sunday. Thomson joined Eagles in the summer to offer some strength from the bench after impressing against the North East club while playing for Manchester…
Sunday 12 January 2014 National Indoor Arena, Birmingham (15:30) It is perhaps fitting that this season’s maiden meeting between 2012/13’s top two, Esh Group Eagles Newcastle and Leicester Riders, comes in the BBL’s first showpiece event of the season, the BBL Cup Final this Sunday. The teams met on five occasions last term and Leicester…
Whatever happens at the BBL Cup Final on Sunday, the next few weeks will see Fab Flournoy further cement his legendary status. Pitched against a classy and talented opponent like Leicester Riders, it’s a brave person who would bet against the phenomenal Esh Group Eagles Newcastle player-coach from adding another piece of silverware to his…
