A dramatic game of basketball down at the Mattioli Arena Leicester on Sunday went in the end to the hometown Riders who came from a double-digit deficit in the first half to turn the game around in the second. For the Newcastle Eagles and Head Coach Marc Steutel they would have travelled home wondering exactly…
Any suggestion that the defeat and long trip to and from Bulgaria was going to give Newcastle Eagles a Christmas hangover was emphatically blown away on Friday night at the Vertu Arena. The Eagles made it a very Black Friday indeed for the Leicester Riders. A superb 98-85 victory in a great game of top-flight…
The Newcastle Eagles were just in Bulgaria on Wednesday night and now just 48 hours later they return home to the Vertu Arena to take on a tough Leicester Riders side in a vital SLB Championship encounter. Newcastle lost that game on Wednesday in the ENBL group stage to Spartak Pleven by the close margin…
The end analysis will show a loss in the L column for Newcastle and a third successive SLB Championship defeat in a row. A statistic no-one involved whether it be coaching staff, players or even fans. What needs to be addressed is how to reverse the trend and quickly. Especially as The Eagles face another…
After only playing four competitive games since the season opening SLB Championship win on 21st September at Caledonia things are about to get very serious for the Newcastle Eagles. They embark on Friday night on a run of three games in a mere 5 days. Two on the road in The SLB and their season…
A punishing Super League Basketball Playoff final proved a game too far for gutsy Newcastle Eagles as the curtain came down on a dramatic campaign for British basketball’s most improved team. Ultimately an unforgiving injury list cost the Tynesiders dearly on the final day of a topsy-turvy season — with a full-strength Leicester side outsmarting…
Trey Pulliam insists Newcastle Eagles’ brilliant win against Bristol Flyers in the Super League Basketball Trophy final told him everything he needed to know about his new team. And after sitting out that victory march in Birmingham, the in-form rookie can’t wait to write his own name in the roster’s history books — and bag…
Never-say-die Will Neighbour is braced for an emotional and physical rollercoaster in tomorrow’s Super League Basketball Play-Off Final following one of the toughest seasons of his celebrated career. The experienced centre has come in from the cold to contribute key minutes at pivotal stages towards the business end of a challenging campaign. And Neighbour is…
Battling Newcastle Eagles lost a first game in four on a night of high drama inside a vocal Vertu Motors Arena. In front of former coach and British basketball legend Fabulous Flournoy — fresh from his latest NBA campaign with the Philadelphia 76ers — the hosts finished the game with just four players. But that…
