A lot can take place in a year. And this previous year, a lot happened in the legal sports betting and iGaming market - and after that some.
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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 (as well as our own), Covers decided once again to assemble the top stories of the year. The slow news days were few and far in between, as you'll soon see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state approving legal sports betting 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 roughly 3,000 votes out of almost 3 million cast. This was not just the closest margin of any gaming-related measure this election cycle but the closest in any state considering that the Supreme Court struck down the federal sports betting ban in 2018.

After evaluating the last official outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - formally - that the sports betting wagering tally step has actually maintained enough support from Election Day tallies to pass