North East basketball news, latest on the Newcastle Eagles

Leven in trouble over bust-up

AUSTRALIAN Steve Leven is facing club disciplinary action after a dressing-room bust-up during Newcastle Eagles’ miserable finals weekend. Read

No fun for Fab as his side is beaten

NEWCASTLE Eagles travelled to Birmingham looking to make history, but left in a cloud of acrimony. Read

Memory of defeat spurs on Babalola

OLU Babalola has promised the Newcastle Eagles will use the memory of their biggest disappointment of the season as motivation in this weekend’s British Basketball League play-offs. Read

Flournoy inspired by Devils’ heroics

Newcastle Eagles are two games away from re-affirming their dominance of British basketball, but already their coach has a wary eye on bigger things. Stuart Rayner reports Read

Outstanding Stewart takes award

LYNARD Stewart has capped a triumphant return to the British Basketball League by being crowned its player of the season. Read

Newcastle Eagles 105, Worcester Wolves 96

FABULOUS Flournoy’s Newcastle Eagles edged past Worcester Wolves last night to book their place in the semi-finals of the play-offs in Birmingham. Read

Eagles confident of play-off success

BRITISH Basketball League player of the month Lynard Stewart will head into the end-of-season play-offs claiming Newcastle Eagles fear none of their rivals as they look to win the tournament for a fourth successive year. Read

Blake: My Eagles can be record breakers

PAUL Blake has challenged his Newcastle Eagles to start rewriting British Basketball League history after the club’s best-ever regular season. Read

Newcastle Eagles 95, Sheffield Sharks 84

BBL champions Newcastle Eagles had to go to overtime for the fourth game in a row before they sealed their 21st straight home win and finally saw off the challenge of the Sheffield Sharks in the last game of the regular season, writes JEFF KING. Read

We’re in a trophy mode – Flournoy

NEWCASTLE Eagles coach Fabulous Flournoy insists his side’s recent trend of overtime wins will bode well for play-off success this season. Read

Defence is the key for us – Bridge

ANDREW Bridge is expecting the Newcastle Eagles’ defence to be the key whoever they face in the quarter-finals of the BBL Play Offs next week. Read

Perfectionist from the Bronx has no time to celebrate

IT was a journey which began on the streets of the Bronx in New York with the murder of an elder brother, a battle with poverty and a new pair of trainers. Read

Guildford Heat 101, Newcastle Eagles 108

NEWCASTLE Eagles are the BBL Champions for 2007-08. It’s as simple as that. What was not so simple was the way they achieved it. Read

Eagles hoping to fly into Europe

NEWCASTLE Eagles will launch their first assault on Europe next season as the club looks to build on its domestic dominance on the continent. Read

Newcastle Eagles 82, Milton Keynes Lions 68

THE Eagles bounced back from last weekend’s devastating defeat at Guildford and, as is becoming the custom in their clashes with the Lions, a dire contest threatened to boil over into a brawl, with blood on the court. Read

Newcastle just can’t handle the Heat

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Tricky hurdle cleared easily

THE Eagles negotiated another potentially difficult hurdle in their relentless pursuit of the BBL Championship title last night at The Metro Radio Arena, writes JEFF KING. Read

Cheshire Jets 83, Newcastle Eagles 97

THE Newcastle Eagles continued their relentless pursuit of the BBL League Championship with a powerhouse display in Cheshire last. Read

I’ll never want to leave, says Bridge

NEWCASTLE Eagles club captain Andrew Bridge has vowed that he will spend the rest of his playing career on Tyneside – unless he is axed. Read

Fab’s men can claim the title – Smith

CHARLES Smith has insisted that the Newcastle Eagles can claim the BBL Championship title – despite suffering an injury that may have ended his season. Read

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