The Sweet Spot

World News Australia's Robert Grasso analyses the week in sport. Follow @RobertGrasso
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Logan Campbell of New Zealand (red) fights Sung Yu-Ch of Chinese Taipei at the Beijing Olympics. (Getty Images)

Put on the red light?

13 July 2009 | 7:56

No doubt about it.

You know you’re hard up for cash when you turn to the world’s oldest profession to raise funds for your upcoming Olympic campaign.  Read more

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Roger Federer makes history. (Getty Images)

When a man loves a woman

06 July 2009 | 9:12

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good tennis game must be in want of a good wife.

Jane Austen wasn’t far off the mark.  Read more

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Lleyton Hewitt. (AAP)

Strawberries and cream and that roof

29 June 2009 | 9:43

Okay. I’m the first to put up my hand and admit it.

Perhaps Lleyton Hewitt does have something left in the tank after all. Maybe at 28, he can still produce many more obnoxious “come ons”, glares and fist pumps.  Read more

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Australian Red Bull driver Mark Webber came second at the British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone. (AAP)

Gentlemen turn off your engines!

22 June 2009 | 11:17

So where to now for Formula One? That’s the question on every petrol head’s mind as the sport tears itself apart.

Motorsport geeks on internet forums around the world speculate and argue the current impasse has been coming for a long time now.  Read more

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Did the Socceroos play a beautiful game. (Getty Images)

Winning ugly a beautiful thing

08 June 2009 | 13:02

It was twelve months ago almost to the day I was sitting alongside Socceroos coach, Pim Verbeek in Dubai.

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