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

So, to revitalize our readers' memories (in addition to our own), Covers decided when again to round up the leading stories of the year. The sluggish news days were scarce, as you'll soon see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state approving legal sports betting wagering is a huge deal. How Missouri did it - and what comes next - makes it one of the year's essential stories.

Missouri authorized retail and mobile sportsbooks by approximately 3,000 votes out of almost three million cast. This was not simply the closest margin of any gaming-related measure this election cycle but the closest in any state considering that the Supreme Court overruled the federal sports betting ban in 2018.

After examining the last main results of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - officially - that the sports betting wagering ballot procedure has actually preserved adequate assistance from Election Day tallies to pass