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Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, CBSSports.com it is considered one of the top sports websites, along with ESPN.com and Yahoo! Sports. It provides coverage of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, NCAA College Basketball and College Football, plus many other professional, college, and high school sports. CBSSports.com also features many writers, and columnists such as Gregg Doyel, Mike Freeman, Dennis Dodd, Gary Parrish and Ray Ratto, plus fantasy sports experts like Scott White, Sergio Gonzalez, Jamey Eisenberg, and Dave Richard. Veteran Sportscasters Lesley Visser, Spencer Tillman, and Clark Kellogg also write columns for CBSSports.com. CBSSports.com is wholly owned by the CBS Corporation, a mass media company with operations in virtually 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 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 (then Viacom) 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. |