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Darius Defoe

Men
December 12, 2025
Preview: Eagles Men Vs Sheffield Sharks

It’s a huge game for both sides on Friday night in the Vertu Arena as the B. Braun Sheffield Sharks are in town to face the Newcastle Eagles in a crucial Super League Basketball Trophy group game. The two teams meeting for the fourth time this season. The other three were in the SLB Championship…

Men
December 5, 2025
Preview: Eagles Men at Sheffield Sharks

The Newcastle Eagles tipped off the first of their brutal three games in five days schedule in the Vertu Arena on Wednesday night with an 80-108 defeat to Iraklis B.C. of Greece in a European North Basketball League group match. Their third defeat from three in this season’s competition. Not the ideal way for Head…

Men
November 22, 2025
Report: Eagles Men 92 – 89 Surrey 89ers

The Newcastle Eagles finally “got the monkey off their back” according to Aussie Point Guard Mitch Clarke as they celebrated a first win in nine games at The Vertu Arena on Friday night. Their 92 – 89 victory over Surrey 89ers was not pretty and they had to dig really tough but they did hold…

Men
September 5, 2025
Defoe’s Extraordinary Legacy Extended

Perhaps no surprise to anyone as head coach Marc Steutel completes his 2025/26 roster with the return of Eagles legend Darius Defoe. The man known as ‘Mr. 28′ will begin an astonishing 22nd season on Tyneside and in top-flight British basketball. Defoe has been a member of every single one of the Eagles’ 28 national…

Men
April 29, 2025
Report: Cheshire Phoenix 99 – 89 Eagles Men

Injury-ravaged Newcastle Eagles lost the battle but won the war as the men in black secured fifth place and a playoff quarter-final against Manchester Basketball. Not for the first time this season, late drama defined an action-packed affair at the Cheshire Oaks Arena. But never-say-die Newcastle managed to avoid the 12-point defeat that would have…

Men
April 7, 2025
ENBL Finał Four Semi-Final Preview: Eagles Men vs Dziki Warszawa

Rickey McGill predicts a classic semi-final clash will go down to the wire as Newcastle Eagles take on Dziki Warszawa for a place in the European North Basketball League (ENBL) final. The US guard has a foot in both camps after representing the Poles earlier this season and clinching the ENBL’s regular season MVP award…

Men
March 17, 2025
ENBL Preview: Eagles Men vs Bakken Bears

Darius Defoe heads into one of the biggest games of his illustrious career determined to show the rest of Europe that Newcastle Eagles are not finished yet. British basketball’s most decorated player leads his side into tonight’s do or die European North Basketball League (ENBL) in bullish mood. And Defoe insists Bakken Bears will feel…

Men
January 28, 2025
28th Just As Special As The First

Understandably head coach Marc Steutel was elated after his Newcastle Eagles side produced a superb performance to defeat Bristol Flyers 97 – 78 in the Super League Basketball Trophy Final at the Utilita Arena Birmingham on Sunday afternoon. It gave the British basketball’s most successful franchise their 28th national title and it was also a…

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Men
January 22, 2025
Eternal Eagle Defoe Determined As Ever

Darius Defoe is tipping Newcastle Eagles to go back to the future by writing the next chapter in the franchise’s storied history in Birmingham this weekend. It’s 20 years since the most decorated player in British basketball bagged his first medal as the men in black defeated Brighton Bears to lift the 2005 BBL Trophy….