A lot can take place in a year. And this past year, a lot happened in the legal sports betting and iGaming market - and after that some.

A referendum in Missouri, prominent wagering scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college gamer prop wagering are simply a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.

So, to refresh our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers chosen once again to assemble the leading stories of the year. The slow news days were scarce, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (hardly) approves mobile sports betting wagering
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Any state approving legal sports betting is a big deal. How Missouri did it - and what follows - makes it one of the year's essential stories.

Missouri approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by approximately 3,000 votes out of nearly three million cast. This was not simply the closest margin of any gaming-related procedure this election cycle however the closest in any state because the Supreme Court struck down the federal wagering restriction in 2018.

After evaluating the final official outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - officially - that the sports betting wagering ballot measure has actually maintained sufficient assistance from Election Day tallies to pass