The nutritional needs of a basketball player vary depending on your sex, age and size. ... After a long workout or competition, your depleted muscle glycogen stores must be replenished, especially if you will be playing another game within the next 8 hours. ... Moderate-glycemic-index foods may be added for the next 18 to 20 hours, with a goal of consuming at least 600 grams of carbohydrate during the 24 hours after an intense game. ... Carbs are most important for basketball but 20% of your diet should be from fats. ... For example, tattoos are extremely popular to show off during a game...

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By using the steroids to aid their performance the athletes are really taking away from the game and away from their life. ... It may seem to give the game or sport more exposure by athletes performing above normal standards, but it will slowly take away from the game. ... The National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Major League Baseball (MLB) players will be subject to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs up to a year before the Olympic Games. ... Under a resolution passed by the USOC professional hockey, basketball and baseball player...

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Steroid use in professional sports is bad because of the after effects it has on the history of the game and the youth who will follow in years to come. ... Would we more happily pay for a Major League Baseball game in which neither team scored or pay for a game in which baseballs are flying out of the park due to performance enhanced players? ... As a young African-American male we mainly flocked to sports such as basketball and football but suddenly baseball was an attractive sport for all of us and it made many of us join baseball organizations in our area. ...

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The game in the end will be an activity, which is increasingly extreme, violent and meaningless, practiced by athletes or a class of chemical genetic mutant gladiators. ... The rules in effect of each sport determine the winner or loser of the game. ... For example, basketball banned goaltending (swatting the ball away after it has reached the highest point) when players became more athletic and tall. ...

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HGH is a popular drug because it is undetectable in urine, therefore athletes tend to use this drug because there will be no trace of the drug after a game or race. ... Football has reported the highest use with ten percent; track and field follows with four percent, and basketball, two percent (Goldwire). ...

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Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball and football everyday. None of those millions want to see an unfair game. By letting athletes take the easy way out and not making them work hard to reach their peak performance is not only hurting the athlete but also lettin...

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