Ballislife.com is an American sports
website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google Search, Google, Facebook, Amaz ...
that provides
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...
coverage and
video mixtape A video mixtape (VMT) is a stock footage movie consisting of clips from movies, television or home videos that are generally circulated as bootleg videos. Also called party tapes or video compilations, this phenomenon comes from the days of Betam ...
s.
Founded in 2005 by young basketball fans Matt Rodriguez and Jonathan Durden,
the site is now owned by Rodriguez and Arek Kissoyan. It specializes in creating highlights of high school players,
as well as delivering up to date coverage in and around the sport of basketball as a whole. The company also sells a line of apparel to supplement its
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...
advertising revenue,
and hosts a
summer camp for fifth through ninth graders.
In 2011, it started the
Ballislife All-American Game The Ballislife All-American Game is an annual American all-star game featuring high school basketball players. It was founded in 2011 by Ballislife.com to provide a stage for West Coast players who were not selected to other All-American games. A ...
, an annual high school
all-star game.
Originally created to showcase
West Coast West Coast or west coast may refer to:
Geography Australia
* Western Australia
*Regions of South Australia#Weather forecasting, West Coast of South Australia
* West Coast, Tasmania
**West Coast Range, mountain range in the region
Canada
* Britis ...
basketball players, it grew to include top players from throughout the nation. Since the 2015–16 season, Ballislife.com has published the FAB 50 National Team Rankings, a weekly ranking of the top high school basketball teams in the nation, and has also awarded the
Mr. Basketball USA
Mr. Basketball USA, formerly known as the ''ESPN RISE'' National Player of the Year and EA SPORTS National Player of the Year, is an award presented to the United States boys' high school basketball national player of the year by Ballislife.com ...
honor, given to the top boys basketball player in the nation.
References
External links
*{{Official, http://ballislife.com
Basketball websites
Internet properties established in 2005