Close friends and fierce rivals Marc Steutel and Andreas Kapoulas lock horns in the BBL for the first time this weekend before reprising their roles with Great Britain next month. And former Newcastle favourite Drew Lasker is relishing the opportunity to see one of international basketball’s most dynamic double acts go head to head on…
It was another tough night for Newcastle Eagles Head Coach Marc Steutel and his players on Friday at Sheffield Sharks. Going into their fourth BBL Championship game of the season they were searching for their first league win. Coming out of the game after 40 minutes basketball where defences were well on top, they are…
Before the game Newcastle Eagles Head Coach Marc Steutel talked about how his roster was still coming together learning together and getting better every day. He talked about trying to find an Eagles side of basketball and upping their defensive intensity. They managed to do that on the night but unfortunately huge foul trouble across…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s game at Sheffield Sharks still looking for their first league win of the season The Eagles did pick up a terrific 77-75 win on the road at Plymouth last Sunday but that was in the BBL Cup. So, they’ll be keen to get that first victory in the Championship under…
Stability is the key for Marc Steutel as Newcastle Eagles’ head coach prepares to consign an unsettling period of flux to the history books. Donovan Johnson represents the penultimate piece in a puzzle that’s proved tough to solve during the first few weeks of an unexpectedly challenging roster-wide reset. And after the US star touched…
At the fourth time of asking in the fledgling BBL season, Marc Steutel’s Newcastle Eagles took the first win of the new Coach’s tenure and advanced to the quarter-finals of The BBL Cup. Whether Steutel would have preferred a win in the league will be a question only he can answer but what is certain…
Another heroic effort from in-form Javion Hamlet was not enough to deny London Lions a fourth league victory on the bounce. Newcastle Eagles’ new fan favourite dropped a game high 29 points before fouling out in the final 10 seconds of a fiery Friday night clash. And Hamlet will be a marked man at Plymouth…
Newcastle Eagles have added a further piece to their 2022-23 jigsaw with the signing of 6’7” forward Donovan Johnson. “I’m excited to get to work with the guys. I had a good talk with coach Steutel and he was optimistic about getting going”, said Johnson. “I played a season at Manchester Giants in 2020-21 so…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s tough home game with BBL Championship favourites London Lions looking for their first win of the 2022-23 season. The Eagles lost both games last weekend although in truth they could have come out with two wins. Last Friday night in a sold-out Vertu Motors Arena they led after three quarters…
