Anybody watching Wimbledon last night can’t help but admire Andy Murray, and his epic performance against the French number 1 – it really was one of the superb comebacks of the sporting world.

With no “Home Nations” in the football this year (and even Martin’s Italy didn’t have the best campaign), it’s great to see Andy doing the Scot’s proud – lets face it – on the sporting front, we don’t often have much to cheer about (with the exception of me winning the EURO2008 office sweepstake)…  Plus, it gives us a great excuse to mention the website we did for Andy’s Main Sponsor – Highland Spring.

Go Wiild with Andy Murray is a competition “microsite” developed for Highland Spring giving users a chance to win a Nintendo Wii, as well as play tennis with Andy Murray himself…  Although based on last nights performance, best of luck to you!!

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On the 26th March, The Scottish Rocks will play the Milton Keynes Lions, Live on Setanta TV following an exclusive deal with the Basketball league. 

It’s a brilliant opportunity for both the team, and the sponsors, with everyone hoping for a record crowd to showcase the Rocks to the rest of the UK.

As an incentive, an “early booking” discount is available – From now through Monday 10 March only, you can book adult tickets for just £4 and child tickets for just £2! That’s more than half off the box office price.

These prices are valid only for on-line bookings and only through Monday 10 March for the Milton Keynes game (Wed 26 Mar) only.

http://www.scottishrocks.co.uk/Tickets/

I look forward to seeing you there, and if you’d like to support NSDesign (the Rocks Official Web Partner) at the game, please get in touch and I’ll send you out some very glamorous promotional T-shirts that I’m sure the TV cameras will love!

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Completely unrelated to anything NSDesign, I just wanted to post a short blog on the recent New York Giants Superbowl win last Sunday (Monday at 3.20am to be correct). 

Having been I Giants fan since the age of 8 (a childhood holiday to New York got me hooked) , I’ve been lucky enough to see 2 previous “big blue” (not related to IBM) superbowl victories, but the win I watched on Sunday night was a class above.

Symbolic of the entire game, and the Giant effort in the dying seconds to secure the win (and end the New England Patriots unbeating 18-game streak) was Quarterback Eli Manning’s scrambling pass to David Tyree – play of the season contender for sure:

Somewhat more relevant – the Giants kicker – Lawrence Tynes, is a Greenock boy (born in Campbeltown)!!  Ok, so he emigrated to Florida at a very young age, but as with all things Scottish – we’ll take national pride when we can…  Here in the office, Kenny tells me it’s nothing unusual for Greenockians to shine on the world stage, but at least – if nothing else, his part in the dramatic win (Tynes, not our Kenny), scoring on the night, and winning the “semi-final” in overtime, has at least elevated the sport of Gridiron and it’s publicity to new heights.  At least for this week anyway!!

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