Basketball is known as America's past time because it became very popular after the world war. I</span><span>t was the most widely played sport in the country the period of 19th to 20th century. </span>Use of such drugs has been a current scandal which is testing the popularity of baseball as "America's pastime but the players using steroids despite the fact that this can have serious side effects leading to dangerous health consequences, worst enough to cause death.