Being an athlete you are asked to play your hardest on every play of every game. You are also asked to be loyal to your whole team. As an amateur athlete on the NCAA level for example you naturally a hard worker because you are playing for the love of the game and not getting paid. When people gamble on a sport I believe it is fine, but when gambling effects the sport in a negative way such as point shaving then gambling becomes wrong. With gambling comes people that are money hungry, and to amateur athletes who do not make money these bookies could make them great offers. Gambling by athletes or on amateur sports is wrong and should be outlawed completely.
In the NCAA all forms of gambling is not allowed. In order to prohibit all forms of gambling on the college level the NCAA made the bylaw 10.3. According to www.ncaa.org, "10.3 stipulates that staff members of the athletics department of a member institution and student-athletes shall not knowingly provide information to individuals involved in organized gambling activities concerning intercollegiate athletics competitions, solicit a bet on any intercollegiate team, accept a bet on any team representing the institution, or participate in any gambling activity that involves intercollegiate athletics or professional athletics, through a bookmaker, a parlay card, or any other method employed by organized gambling." The NCAA made this rule in order to keep the integrity of the sports. If an amateur gambles on the game then technically they are playing for mony and they are no longer an amateur. .
Even though the NCAA tries to pin all of the problems they have with gambling on Nevada the truth shows that it is definitely not all Nevada's fault. "Nevada's legal sports books bring in about $2.3 billion in bets each year estimated to be a mere 1% of the total organized gambling on sports nationwide," (Hamburger, A1). This shows that only a minute part of organized gambling comes from Nevada.