A lot can take place in a year. And this previous year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting and iGaming market - and then some.

A referendum in Missouri, prominent wagering scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college gamer prop sports betting are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was much more.

So, to refresh our readers’ memories (along with our own), Covers decided when again to assemble the top stories of the year. The sluggish news days were scarce, as you’ll quickly see.
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Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state authorizing legal sports betting wagering is a huge offer. How Missouri did it - and what comes next - makes it among the year’s most important stories.

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

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