CBS buys high school sports online network

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. said on Tuesday it has purchased high school sports online network MaxPreps to expand its local sports coverage.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

MaxPreps, which offers information to nearly 80,000 high school football and 500,000 boys and girls basketball games played each year, will become a part of CBS-owned College Sports Television, or CSTV.

About 1 million high school athletes are registered to use MaxPreps, the company said.