Newcastle Eagles opening tip-off of the 2025/26 season’s Super League Basketball (SLB) Trophy competition against Caledonia Gladiators will now take place on Sunday 7 December. The move of this away trip over the border to Caledonia from its originally scheduled date of Sunday 9 November means that the Eagles’ Trophy progression will be sealed inside…
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…
Newcastle Eagles have made their second change to their 2025/26 men’s roster, bringing in 6’4 guard Deion Hammond, who last season played in the German Bundesliga for BG Goettingen. Hammond had a record-breaking college career, averaging double-figure scoring returns in each of his four years at Monmouth University of the Colonial Athletic Association from 2017…
Newcastle Eagles head coach Marc Steutel will be without Josh Ward-Hibbert until early in the new year as the club’s medical team issued an update on his injury. Ward-Hibbert suffered a high ankle sprain when the Eagles won their opening home game of the season against Cheshire Phoenix. Coach Steutel, his performance staff and club…
Eagles Head Coach Marc Steutel and his team head into what is arguably their biggest game of the fledgling season so far. But then again every game is a big one. The Eagles face reigning regular season Champions London Lions on Friday. That game will be at the Vertu Motors Arena in front of a…
The MVP honours for the Newcastle Eagles Men’s impressive 88 – 70 SLB home win over Cheshire Phoenix in a packed Vertu Motors Arena on Friday night went to former Nix Maceo Jack. The explosive shooting guard went for 24 points and 4 rebounds to continue his fine start to his fledgling Eagles career and…
The Newcastle Eagles came up just short of making it three wins from three in the SLB Championship on Sunday after going down to their first League defeat in Sheffield. It was a game that won’t live long in the mind of basketball purists but it was intense throughout and as hard-fought as they come….
There’s no doubting that Head Coach Chloe Gaynore and her new-look 2025/26 face a tough challenge in the opening home game of the new season. The visiting B. Braun Sheffield Hatters are one of the pre-season favourites for honours this season. Sunday’s forthcoming Betty Cordona SLB Trophy Group game between the two sides at The…
Head Coach Marc Steutel and his men’s Newcastle Eagles head north of the border to open their SLB campaign for 2025/26. East Kilbride is the destination, PlaySport Arena is the venue and Caledonia Gladiators are the opponents. A tough opening fixture for Steutel and his charges in what is always a fiercely contested rivalry that…
