This week Basketball England launched a new initiative that aims to put 1,000 basketball nets on outdoor hoops across the country. We want as many basketball players from across the North East to get involved with ‘Project Swish’, as it is called, to get missing or broken nets replaced on courts across our region. The project will not…
The 2018-19 basketball season represented a year of huge growth for Newcastle Eagles and their Academy. The latest addition to the clubs growing provision is an academic/sporting hybrid programme, with the target of providing an elite level experience for 16-19 years old players, on and off the court. 14 young athletes were selected to be…
Walking Basketball will taking place at the Eagles Community Arena starting from Friday 17 May. The walking game is aimed at the over 55 age range as part of our growing Active Ageing programme, but everyone is welcome. The sessions run most Fridays from 12-noon until 1pm and are just £2 per person paid on the…
In years to come the 2018-19 season will go down as a game changer in the history of British basketball’s most successful club. But this morning there is very little positive to be said about Newcastle Eagles’ worst campaign for 15 years. A mid-term move to the magnificent Eagles Community Arena will undoubtedly lay the…
The beast will be unleashed in a bid to bolster Newcastle Eagles’ playoff bid after Darius Defoe declared himself fit for the post-season. The shackles will be off the veteran forward with Sheffield Sharks standing between Newcastle and a semi-final spot. And Defoe admitted he’s been like a coiled spring sitting out the regular-season run-in…
At the final BBL Championship home game of the first season in our new home we were delighted to honour one of our greatest and most loved supporters by naming our main VIP hospitality room as ‘The Brian Manning Suite’. Brian’s support of both the club and our community foundation has been immeasurable over many years…
The regular BBL Championship season for 2018/19 came to an end for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle at The Eagles Community Arena on Friday night with a 99 – 80 loss against London Lions. It was a result that meant Newcastle for the 15th consecutive season have finished in the top three of the Championship which…
League titles have become synonymous with Newcastle during Fabulous Flournoy’s unprecedented reign as Eagles’ player-coach. The only disappointment tonight was the unfamiliar name on this season’s Championship crown. That London Lions – and their abrasive playcaller Vince Macaulay – finally secured their coveted regular season prize in the North East left a sour taste in the…
Unsurprisingly with little to play for in the regular season Esh Group Eagles Newcastle decided against risking any of their injured starters against a Sheffield Sharks side that needed to take the win to qualify for the end of season play-offs. All of which meant a hard night’s graft for Fab Flournoy and his remaining…
