Roger Federer and Andy Murray will meet this afternoon for the rain-delayed men’s final of the US Open live on CBS (NYSE: CBS), CBSsports.com and USOpen.org. The last-minute move by CBS Sports marks a first for the tennis Grand Slam event, which is facing its first Monday final in 21 years. Even better for UK tennis fans eager to see favorite son Murray and Federer’s homies in Switzerland, no geo-blocking which means anyone who wants to stay up should be able to watch the match in real time on broadband. The match is scheduled for 5 p.m. edt, which is a little late for the east coast office crowd but prime time as far as work viewing goes for the rest of the U.S. No mobile component this time so commuters are out of luck.

So far this year, CBSSports.com has streamed chunks of the Masters, the opening days of the British Open, and, of course, the big kahuna, March Madness and more deals are in the works. In June, NBCSports.com simulcast the Monday playoff of golf’s U.S. Open, delivering a non-Olympics record of 1.5 million streams. 

Miniweb, a British interactive TV platform spun out of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), has announced a massive $32 million (£18.35 million) venture round from US investors to take its product offerings international. Funding comes from Meritage Funds in Denver, Colorado and DeGeorge Holdings III, Nevada. Middlesex-based Miniweb targets iTV advertisers who want to go beyond the walled garden offered by digital satellite’s red button, instead offering them TV Sites, more internet-like websites built using WTVHTML, on broadband-capable set-top boxes. It’s a variant of HTML and so, the theory goes, wraps the cost of developing an iTV presence in to existing web production budgets. More details on PCUK here.

• BSkyB Sells iTV Portal Codes System To Spin-Off Miniweb

And we thought the fantasy sports kerfuffle has died out after the fantasy leagues won against MLB earlier this year. But no, now CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), which also looks after CBSSports.com, has filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis against NFL Players Association to clarify who can use the these stats for its lucrative fantasy football leagues. The lawsuit, filed last week, claims PA had threatened to sue CBS if it does not pay licensing fees for the statistics, reports AP. CBS Interactive seeks a ruling saying that the players cannot control use of the publicly available numbers and cannot demand that CBS pays for their use...a very similar argument to the MLB case.

In the lawsuit, filed below, CBS alleges that PA had “gone so far as to say that if CBS Interactive takes any action to challenge its rights to licensing fees, it will never again grant CBSSports.com rights necessary to operate fantasy games and will therefore put CBSSports.com out of the fantasy football business,” a pretty strong and foolish statement to make if true. According to SBJ, CBSSports.com paid the union a total of $1.49 million in the fiscal year ended February 29, 2008, up from $1 million in the prior fiscal year, according to annual reports filed by the union to the U.S. Labor Department. No money is believed to have changed hands between the two sides in the current fiscal year for fantasy licensing as a result of the MLB-CDM case, it says.

The lawsuit, embedded below, go here directly to read.

• Fantasy Leagues Win Against MLB; Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal

BitGravity, the much-hyped content delivery network startup based in Burlingame, CA, has received another round of funding, this time from India’s Tata Communications, the telecom arm of the Tata Group, which has invested $11.5 million in it.  Also Tata has announced the launch of its global CDN service using BitGravity’s technology. Just earlier last month, BitGravity announced it closed a $2.5 million “seed” round, from Allen & Co. and Sling founder and CEO Blake Krikorian. The company launched its service last year, and focuses on high resolution and live video delivery, and says it is at a lower cost than others. It powers video for Revision3 and Pump Audio, among others. The investment from Tata would bring the total amount raised by BitGravity to $14 million. More details in release.

• CDN BitGravity Gets $2.5 Million Seed Round From Allen & Co, Sling Founder