Ballislife.com is an American sports
website
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that provides
basketball
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coverage and
video mixtapes.
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
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advertising revenue,
and hosts a
summer camp
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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
An all-star game is an exhibition game that showcases the best players (the "stars") of a sports league. The exhibition is between two teams organized solely for the event, usually representing the league's teams based on region or division, bu ...
.
Originally created to showcase
West Coast 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 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