Andy Murray

Collective bargaining talks between the NHL and the NHL Players' Assn. broke off Sunday after slightly more than an hour and appeared to reach a stalemate again after a week of daily communication had fueled hopes they might be nearing a resolution to their labor dispute. "No progress and no meetings," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said when asked to sum up the day's events and whether they had scheduled more negotiations. Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHLPA, told reporters in New York he does not see "a path to an agreement.

The Indiana Pacers need to find a long-term replacement for Danny Granger. Team officials announced Wednesday that the one-time All-Star forward is expected to miss up to three months after receiving an injection in his left knee to treat patellar tendinosis. Losing Granger for an extended period is a big blow for a team that entered this season hoping to contend for an Eastern Conference title. He was the Pacers' top scorer last season (18.7 points) and is typically their first option in late-game situations too. Granger originally hurt the knee during May's playoff run. Coach Frank Vogel said the soreness dissipated for a while, then returned while Granger was working out during the off-season.

Playing in his opening match in the ATP finals at London, Novak Djokovic dived right in. The top-ranked Serb twice landed hard on the court Monday at the O2 Arena, but it didn't stop him from beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 7-6 (4), 6-3, and setting up a Wednesday showdown with Group A rival Andy Murray. "All those balls were out of my reach, so I tried to dive," Djokovic said. "I don't usually dive that much. I don't usually spend that much [time at] the net as well. " Djokovic and Murray have played a few epic matches against each other this year, including a five-set Murray win in the U.S. Open final.

— Andy Murray, who had wept in disappointment when he lost to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final in July, wept again Monday night. It was different this time. Murray, a slightly sarcastic, totally emotional 25-year-old Scotsman who had played in four previous major tournament finals, won his first Monday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. He withstood the furious will of second-seeded and defending champion Novak Djokovic in 4 hours 54 minutes to win the U.S. Open title, 7-6 (10)

  The emotion came through loud and clear during Tuesday night's World Cup soccer qualifier between Macedonia and Scotland at Hampden Park in Glasgow. "There's only one Andy Murray," chanted the fans. Yes, that would be the Grand Slam-champion-in-waiting ... no longer. The tennis star Murray fulfilled his vast promise and destiny with Monday's victory at the U.S. Open, beating Novak Djokovic in a compelling five-set final. This ended a 76-year wait for a British male Grand Slam singles champion.

NEW YORK - Andy Murray, who had wept in disappointment when he lost to Roger Federer in the finals of Wimbledonin July, even though he had finally won his first set in a Grand Slam final, wept again Monday night. It was different this time. Murray, a slightly sarcastic, totally emotional 25-year-old Scotsman who had played in four previous major tournament finals, won his first Monday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Murray withstood the furious will of second-seeded and defending champion Novak Djokovic to win the U.S. Open title, 7-6 (10)

NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have split their last four meetings. Two of them were big-occasion events. Djokovic outlasted Murray in an enthralling five-set Australian Open semifinal. In an Olympic semifinal at Wimbledon, Murray, riding home-nation crowd cheers and playing clever all-court tennis, beat Djokovic in two close sets. In Australia, Djokovic went on to win his fifth major title. At the Olympics, Murray won the gold medal. Djokovic, seeded second and the defending champion, will play the third-seeded Murray on Monday at 1 p.m. PDT in another big-occasion event, the weather-delayed U.S. Open men's final.

NEW YORK -- Novak Djokovic, the 25-year-old from Serbia who won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments last year and started off this year by winning the Australian Open, has a chance to finish off his majors year in a positive way. In a men's semifinal that began Saturday and was stopped in the first set because of approaching severe weather, the second-seeded Djokovic came back to beat fourth-seeded David Ferrer of Spain, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2,...

NEW YORK - Chairs went flying through the air and Andy Murray's baseball cap blew right off his head. And that was the good-weather portion of the U.S. Open on Saturday. For the fifth consecutive year there will be a Monday men's final at the final major of the year. With severe weather all around the National Tennis Center, the men's semifinal between second-seeded and defending champion Novak Djokovic and fourth-seeded David Ferrer was postponed until Sunday with Ferrer leading 5-2. About 33 minutes into the match, fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium and the players were told that play was ending because severe storms were approaching.

NEW YORK -- Andy Murray, trying to become the first British-born man since 1938 to win a Grand Slam tournament, overcame a 1-hour, 15-minute rain delay, a tornado that touched down in nearby Queens and winds gusting to 30 mph Saturday to advance to his second U.S. Open final. The third-seeded Murray, who recently won an Olympic singles gold medal, beat sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (7), in the first of the men's semifinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium. "I'm looking the other way and chairs are flying onto the court," Murray said after the match.