A lot can occur in a year. And this previous year, a lot occurred in the legal sports betting and iGaming market - and after that some.
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A referendum in Missouri, high-profile sports betting scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college player prop wagering are simply a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.

So, to refresh our readers' memories (in addition to our own), Covers decided as soon as again to round up the top stories of the year. The slow news days were rare, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (hardly) authorizes mobile sports betting

Any state authorizing legal sports betting wagering is a big offer. 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 almost 3 million cast. This was not simply the closest margin of any gaming-related measure this election cycle but the closest in any state given that the Supreme Court struck down the federal wagering restriction in 2018.

After examining the final main outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - formally - that the sports betting tally step has kept adequate assistance from Election Day tallies to pass