So, the real drama starts on Bank Holiday Monday with a text from Coach Forrester at 6:10am advising that Ahmad and Victor were stuck in Chicago having had their flight cancelled and would not therefore be arriving with Kyle from Belfast at 10:15am. This rather put a different slant on things with Fab expecting everyone…
Our Esh Group Eagles Newcastle will fly out to Europe to challenge themselves against Belgian opposition this pre-season before returning home for further tests against US and BBL squads. The new team will leave UK soil on Tuesday 28 August and return home on the Sunday of that week after two games in Belgium, provisionally scheduled…
As pre-season programmes go things could hardly have gone better for the Newcastle Eagles – three games, three wins and nothing more than the odd niggle mean the men in black head into next weekend’s Betway All-Stars Basketball tournament in confident mood. By keeping it in the family the most decorated franchise in the history…
Jaysean Paige has set his sights on becoming a Newcastle Eagles success story after launching the latest chapter in a stellar career. The explosive shooter arrived on Tyneside via NCAA Division One heavyweights West Virginia Mountaineers and stints in Germany and Macedonia. And the word is Paige has the talent to become Newcastle’s headline act…
The more things change the more things stay the same. And on the night our Eagles handed debuts to seven new faces there was a familiar air of superiority as the hosts cruised to a comfortable MKM Building Supplies Pre-Season victory. Historically, player-coach Fabulous Flournoy has built his all-conquering rosters on consistency – the new…
ESH Group Eagles Newcastle 113 Team USA Select 88 Just over 48 hours after their win at Leeds, the Eagles were back on court for what will almost certainly be their last openly competitive pre-season game before the BBL Championship starts on Friday 27th September. The opposition in front of them at Benfield Centre of…
Leeds Carnegie 61 Esh Group Eagles 84 After a solid opening pre-season win over Team Northumbria, The Esh Group Eagles had their first road trip of the season to EBL Division 1 side Leeds Carnegie on Saturday as they continued their build-up to the new campaign. And in a highly competitive encounter, The Eagles came…
Newcastle Eagles 86 – Team Northumbria 54 The new-look Newcastle Eagles got their pre-season campaign off to a winning start with a good, workmanlike performance against a determined and spirited young Northumbria side who gave them a nice work-out to help ease the rust of the summer’s rest. Eagles fielded no fewer than six new…
In preparation for the new season Leeds Carnegie Basketball will take on BBL giants Newcastle Eagles in a friendly match at the Leeds Metropolitan University Arena. The game is scheduled for Saturday 14th September at 7:30pm. Newcastle are the most successful club in British basketball history having won the league title five out of the…
