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CBSSports.com was founded in 1994 as SportsLine USA, and today is a CBS-owned website that provides sports scores, news, statistics, live and on-demand video, mobile apps, e-commerce, fantasy sports products, services, and information. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, CBSSports.com is a popular American sports websites, along with Yahoo! Sports, ESPN.com, and SI.com. It provides coverage of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, NCAA College Basketball and Football, NASCAR plus many other professional, college, and high school sports.
CBSSports.com also features many writers and columnists such as Gregg Doyel, Jason La Canfora, Bruce Feldman, Jon Heyman, Dennis Dodd, Gary Parrish and Tony Barnhart, plus fantasy sports experts like Scott White, Sergio Gonzalez, Jamey Eisenberg, Nando Di Fino and Dave Richard.
CBSSports.com is wholly owned by the CBS Corporation, a mass media company with operations in nearly every field of media and entertainment, including broadcast, cable, and local television production and syndication, radio and music, advertising on out-of-home media, publishing, and interactive media. CBSSports.com operates as a unit of CBS Interactive and is the online presence of CBS Sports. The CBSSports.com portfolio of brands includes CBSSports.com, online high-school sports leader MaxPreps, and the CBSSports.com College Network, a group of approximately 175 official athletic websites for colleges and universities across the United States which are produced by CBSSports.com. CBS Corporation purchased SportsLine USA in 2004. On August 22, 2007, CBS SportsLine.com changed its name to CBSSports.com to better unify the CBS Sports brand across its television, online and mobile platforms.
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