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…
It was five and out for Head Coach Chloe Gaynor and her players down at Sheffield yesterday afternoon. The fifth time Newcastle Eagles had faced the Sheffield Hatters this season and unfortunately the fifth loss to an excellent Sheffield side. It meant a season ending loss for the Eagles in difficult and disappointing circumstances as…
Newcastle Eagles’ Magnificent Seven punched their ticket to the 2025 playoff final in sensational fashion to send top seed London Lions packing. Injury ravaged and exhausted following a gruelling 60-game season, Marc Steutel’s never-say-die warriors somehow found the energy to rack up the most famous of wins. And in a final set to roll back…
The Newcastle Eagles Women’s side face their biggest game of the season at the Canon Medical Arena in Sheffield this afternoon. They take on The Hatters in the Super League Basketball Play-Off Semi Final with the winner moving on to play in the showpiece end of season play-off final at the O2 Arena in London….
Marc Steutel has warned his warrior Eagles to expect a dogfight as desperate London Lions look to claw their way back into a pulsating playoff semi-final. The two-game series is finely poised after shorthanded Newcastle somehow came away from a stunned Copper Box Arena with a 77-71 win. And Steutel is expecting London to throw…
Money’ Mike Okauru underlined his exceptional value to Newcastle Eagles by leading the fifth seed Tynesiders to a sensational road win at number one ranked London Lions. The US sharpshooter led voting in the Molten All-League Team of the Year selections in the build-up to a mouthwatering playoff semi-final tie. And Okauru utterly eclipsed next…
Newcastle Eagles will have to perform at their ‘absolute best’ to see off London Lions and make a third final of the season. That’s the verdict of head coach Marc Steutel ahead of the Friday night playoff semi-final first leg in the capital. But Newcastle will have to meet Steutel’s standard without star men Darius…
