U.S. Open

Following on the heels of The Masters, organizers of the British Open announced Monday the tournament, one of golf’s four major tourneys, would also be cancelled in 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rafael Nadal’s 19th Grand Slam trophy went from inevitable to suddenly in doubt in a thrill-a-minute U.S. Open final. What had all the makings of a crowning morphed into a real contest thanks to Nadal’s opponent, Daniil Medvedev, a man a decade younger and appearing in his first major title match. Down by two sets and a break, Medvedev shifted...

The year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament gets started with quite a matchup: Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are scheduled to face each other at the U.S. Open for the first time.

On Monday, the USTA will unveil a statue in Althea Gibson’s honor at the U.S. Open.

A large group of players came into the BMW Championship at Medinah needing big performances to advance in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and Justin Thomas and Jason Kokrak were among those that delivered in the first round of the tournament.

The mild oblique strain that Tiger Woods cited when he withdrew after one round of FedEx Cup playoffs was feeling good enough that he flew to the Chicago area Tuesday to give it a try in the BMW Championship.

So close to victory, Naomi Osaka suddenly was letting the Australian Open final slip away. Three championship points? Gone. A sizable lead? Soon all gone, too. She was playing poorly. She yelled at herself. Slammed a ball. Tugged at her visor’s pink brim. Trudged to the locker room between sets with a towel draped over her head. And then, after...

Some fans of Serena Williams are drawing aim at GQ Magazine for naming the tennis star its ‘Woman of the Year.’ More to the point, some are upset with how that fact was illustrated on the magazine… with the word woman in quotation marks.

The chair umpire who penalized Serena Williams in the U.S. Open final is pleased to be getting back to work. Carlos Ramos is assigned to the Davis Cup semifinal between Croatia and the United States this weekend in Zadar. “I’m just focusing on this tie and working again. That’s all I can say,” Ramos told The Associated Press before the...

The events and the arguing and the booing that would make this a U.S. Open final unlike any other began when Serena Williams’ coach made what she insisted was an innocent thumbs-up, but the chair umpire interpreted as a helpful signal. It was the second game of the second set Saturday, in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Williams’ bid...

Serena Williams kept booming big shots for winners, never allowing herself to feel sorry for the overmatched player on the other side. So what if it happened to be her big sister? On Friday, it was perhaps the best she’s ever done against Venus.

The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover made the first call to 911 and claimed she was attacked by her mother-in-law, according to a tape of the call released Wednesday that provided another bizarre twist in the wife’s arrest on a domestic violence charge. Glover answered when the St. John’s Sheriff’s Office in Florida called back and said...

You may know that Chase Josey is a talented snowboarder. What you may not know is that he is pretty good at building Legos. Watch Josey explain the snowboard halfpipe with the toys’ help.

When properly prepared, a halfpipe is as much a snowboarder’s canvas as the work of art itself — a 600-foot-long sculpture of smooth, icy symmetry designed to bring out each daredevil’s talent and courage. And when that halfpipe isn’t made well, you end up with the sort of trouble we witnessed four years ago at the Sochi Olympics.

Winter is coming back with a vengeance after a brief warm spell, but how bad will things get? NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Brant Miller has the answer. 

Rafael Nadal overwhelmed first-time major finalist Kevin Anderson in the U.S. Open Sunday to win his third championship at Flushing Meadows.

Thanks to her straight sets win over Kaia Kanepi on Wednesday night, Madison Keys made it an All-American U.S. Open semifinal in New York this weekend.

The U.S. Open golf tournament at Erin Hills has already featured plenty of drama on the course, but a series of bizarre and tragic occurrences off the course are dominating the headlines at the Wisconsin venue.

Phil Mickelson’s quest to complete the career Grand Slam is going to be postponed for another year, as he’s opting to skip this month’s U.S. Open at Erin Hills near Milwaukee.

Lexi Thompson heard fans chanting her name as she approached the 18th green, and it moved her to the brink of tears for the second time in an hour. Although she had lost her big lead at the ANA Inspiration on a four-shot penalty for a day-old rules violation, Thompson had gained the unabashed support of a crowd desperately willing...