A lot can occur in a year. And this past year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting and iGaming industry - and then some.

A referendum in Missouri, high-profile wagering scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college gamer prop wagering are simply a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.
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So, to revitalize our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers decided when again to assemble the top stories of the year. The slow news days were few and far between, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

Any state approving legal sports betting is a big deal. How Missouri did it - and what follows - makes it one of the year's most important stories.

Missouri approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by approximately 3,000 votes out of almost 3 million cast. This was not just the closest margin of any gaming-related step this election cycle but the closest in any state because the Supreme Court overruled 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 say - formally - that the sports betting wagering tally measure has preserved enough assistance from Election Day tallies to pass