Well I suppose it’s time for another blog and another one of those with plenty to say but nothing to report! Pride of place and first up is to Mr and Mrs Williams. Yep, Verity and Kai have tied the knot and had a fantastic day yesterday celebrating this wonderful event. We offer our biggest…
In the latest instalment of our summer series on former Eagles and faces of British Basketball with connections to the club our LBTV commentator and coaching assistant Jeff King, or ‘Uncle Jeff’ to our players, caught up with 6’6 forward Kai Williams about playing for us last season… As the close season continues and we…
Fabulous Flournoy could be forgiven for taking a break from his beloved basketball following Newcastle Eagles’ most disappointing campaign for a decade but the New Yorker is already building for the future as Simon Rushworth reports. Fabulous Flournoy skipped through the sand like a man half his age. However, the most successful coach in the history…
As the BBL Championship campaign came to a close last weekend and the top eight teams including our Esh Group Eagles Newcastle all set their sights on the 2018 Play-Offs silverware there was one more competition which had its entrants locked into place. In the early stages of the 2018-19 season the league rounds will…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle play Plymouth Raiders tonight in the last home BBL Championship game of the 2017-18 season, writes Jeff King. They will then close the regular season on Sunday down at Surrey. The Eagles are looking to win both these games and hope that results go in their favour to secure the runners-up…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle face a tough BBL Championship clash at Surrey Scorchers this afternoon after their long journey south this morning, writes Jeff King. The Scorchers are on a red-hot run of home form having won six in a row on their own court. Indeed, they haven’t lost in Surrey this calendar year and…
For Esh Group Eagles Newcastle the 104 – 79 BBL Championship win over Plymouth Raiders was another step forward on the run to the end of the season, writes Jeff King. Whilst Plymouth are in the bottom three of the BBL table, to score over 100 points and conceded less than 80 thus giving a…
Fabulous Flournoy is confident a flurry of international call-ups can only benefit Newcastle Eagles as the club negotiates an increasingly tough transitional campaign. And the veteran New Yorker is refusing to allow a run of three successive homecourt defeats dent his enthusiasm as a watershed season takes shape. Darius Defoe, Kai Williams and Drew Lasker…
It is almost time for the buzzer to sound on Coach Andreas Kapoulas and his staff as we pass under the 50 days to go mark until the 2018 Commonwealth Games while they look one more time at the potential players for their final men’s roster. The first stages of the process began back late last year…
