NEWCASTLE Eagles kept their momentum going at the top of the BBL Championship with a clinical demolition of bottom-of-the-table Birmingham. Although this was a game Fab Flournoy’s men were expected to win, the message to the rest of the league is that the Eagles went about business in the right way. The game was played…
EAGLES coach Fab Flournoy has warned his players not to take Birmingham Panthers lightly when the BBL leaders travel to the BBL basement club on Sunday. After a bumpy start to 2008, the Eagles have been in ominous form of late, racking up three huge wins. They will be looking to improve on that and…
Another majestic display from “Prince” Charles Smith helped the Eagles back to the top of the BBL table after they crushed Birmingham 109-86 last night. The veteran forward was just three steals short of a staggering quadruple-double, something almost unheard of in the British game. For he finished with the most impressive line of any…
Birmingham Panthers coach Nigel Lloyd has admitted his struggling side need to learn from tonight’s visit to the trophy-chasing Eagles. The Barbadian, whose biggest pal in the game is Eagles play-caller Fab Flournoy, arrives on Tyneside for a David-versus-Goliath battle with his club besieged by on and off-court problems. With the Panthers rumoured to be…
