Basketball England have announced their annual awards which recognise the volunteers doing great things for our game across the country. There are a number of new award categories for 2018 along with existing ones which all be presented at a new Volunteer Awards dinner as part of the new Basketball England Game Conference in September….
The club remain bang on course to play BBL basketball at the brand new Eagles Community Arena before Christmas. And following the release of this season’s fixtures, owner Paul Blake admitted the finishing line is in sight following a decade of meticulous planning and tough negotiations. The 2018-19 campaign will see the organisation play in…
Our Newcastle Eagles Academy star Tosan Evbuomwan has been selected for the final 12 to play in Division A of the FIBA Under-18 European Championship in Latvia this week. Tosan will make his FIBA competition debut in Group D this Saturday 28 July against Montenegro, followed by games versus Serbia and Lithuania, before Brtain’s round…
On Saturday 9th June club and foundation staff were joined by some of our sponsors on a trek to the summit of the highest mountain in the British Isles to raise much needed additional funds for our Eagles Community Arena. After an early start around 7:45am ‘Team Eagles’ took on their Ben Nevis Challenge in…
On Saturday 9th June our Eagles Community Foundation and club staff will don their hiking boots and set-out on their way to the summit of Ben Nevis to raise funds which will go towards making the Eagles Community Arena into an extraordinary venue. Inspired from their visit to the building site yesterday and knowing first…
The next generation of North East basketball talent is in safe hands as the brand new Eagles Community Arena takes shape with the promise of creating a one-stop home for hoops fans of all ages and abilities. As our Eagles look to arrest an unfamiliar homecourt slump – following three successive Sport Central defeats –…
North East basketball stars of the future have scored a slam dunk by securing the support of two of the region’s largest shopping centres. intu Metrocentre and intu Eldon Square are sponsoring the Rookie League, run by our Eagles Community Foundation, which is a turn up and play, fun and friendly way for kids in…
Our Eagles Community Foundation’s Hoops 4 Health programme has reached further than ever before this week with the news coming from Pittsfield in Massachusetts where our former foundation general manager Deirdre Tozer-Hayes has adapted and launched the project stateside. After spending 26 years in England as a professional basketball player, coach and with our foundation,…
Wednesday 29 November 2017 will go down in the club’s history as literally a ground breaking day with work beginning at Riverside Dene in Elswick for our year-long build of the Eagles Community Arena (ECA). The brand new, multi-million pound, purpose-built community sports arena will house our Eagles Community Foundation (ECF), top-flight British basketball with…
