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Midgley reveals secret of success

RICHARD MIDGLEY has revealed the secret behind his soaraway success story on Tyneside after blazing a glory trail in black this season. Read

Nowhere Darius would rather be than with Eagles

DARIUS Defoe has vowed he will be an Eagle for life. That declaration came despite the burly benchman attracting the attention of a string of big clubs at home and abroad. Read

Newcastle Vipers 2 Coventry Blaze 6

BIG match nerves got to the Vipers. Read

Coventry Blaze 1 Newcastle Vipers 2

WINGER Derek Campbell struck midway through the final period to inflict the first home defeat of the season on Elite League leaders Coventry Blaze. Read

Eagles spreading the net for talent

NOT content with a commanding lead at the top of this season’s BBL table, Newcastle Eagles are cleaning up where the North East’s emerging basketball talent is concerned. Read

Smith: We can follow the Heat

CHARLES SMITH will cast an envious eye in the direction of Guildford Heat this week as last season’s double winners head into Europe. Read

Babalola reveals secret to Eagles success

OLU BABALOLA has lifted the lid on Newcastle’s stunning start to the season . . . And revealed the table-topping Eagles’ squad is gripped by a crisis of confidence! Read

Sky's the limit

BOSTON CELTICS star Leon Powe has urged Richard Midgley to hold on to his NBA dream after insisting the Eagles guard can take his talent to the very top. Read

GB Star Midgley never saw his future at Newcastle

TEAM GB star Richard Midgley has revealed he never saw his future with Newcastle . . . or any other BBL club. Read

Dyson and Storm in Ryder Cup mission

SIMON DYSON and Graeme Storm can both lay down a Ryder Cup marker next weekend. Read

Derwent anglers finding it tough

WILD and windy conditions on Friday kept the catch returns down in the annual Mayor of Gateshead’s annual angling competition at Derwent Reservoir. Read

Gosforth ladies day

FREE taster sessions for beginners of any age or gender, grant aided by the golf authorities, are part of the fabric of the sport these days, at least at the more progressive clubs. Read

£40,000 for NSPCC

BY the time the last raffle ticket is sold at the Burgham Park Pro-Am on Wednesday, the NSPCC, whose team will include Alan Shearer, will be around £40,000 better off from a series of events the club has put on this season. The Pro-Am will be followed by the PGA North Region Championship, which has a Saturday finish for the first time in almost a quarter of a century. Terry Minett , Burgham’s operations director, said: “The Pro-Am was full two months before the event and around half of the 35 teams were taken by the sponsors, Automatic Retailing, who are great supporters of the club, especially the juniors. Apart from The Rock Pro-Am, this is the best professional field to play in the North-East.” Read

A Rock for the region’s golfers gets new backing

JOHN HARRISON, the No 1 golf coach in the North-East, has opened an account with Northern Rock this week in response to The Journal’s “support the Rock” campaign. Read

Flournoy’s looking for a season that’s just Fabulous

FABULOUS Flournoy’s vest will show a change that is subtle yet significant this season as Newcastle Eagles officials use the American’s kit to both identify the popular playcaller and to underline their expectations, writes PAUL GILDER. Read

Player by player

FABULOUS Flournoy’s summer has been a hectic one, with the American having worked around the clock in order to assemble a roster he feels can help Newcastle dominate the BBL this season. As his side prepare to open their Championship campaign against Guildford Heat in tomorrow’s big tip-off, the club’s industrious playcaller has given The Journal his rough guide to the Eagles squad. Read

Smith’s happy to be back ‘home’

No one celebrated Charles Smith’s summer return to Tyneside with more gusto than his wife and daughters, as Newcastle Eagles’ homecoming hero told Paul Gilder Read

Eagles look to be kings on new court

THE Newcastle Eagles will launch a new era in the club’s history on a new court this Friday after the MetroRadio Arena installed a new playing surface. Read

Newcastle Vipers 2, Edinburgh 0

ROB Wilson’s skilful Vipers team showed they could win ugly as their unbeaten start to the season continued. Read

We’ll never see the like again

ONE reason I have to remember Ian Porterfield is that he sent my mother into premature labour. Read

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