A lot can occur in a year. And this past year, a lot happened in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming industry - and then some.
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A referendum in Missouri, prominent betting scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college player prop wagering are just a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.

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

Missouri (hardly) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state approving legal sports betting is a big offer. How Missouri did it - and what follows - makes it among the year's crucial stories.

Missouri authorized 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 however the closest in any state because the Supreme Court overruled the federal betting restriction in 2018.

After examining the final main outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - formally - that the sports betting wagering ballot step has actually preserved sufficient assistance from Election Day tallies to pass