A lot can take place in a year. And this previous year, a lot happened in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming market - and after that some.
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A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college gamer prop wagering are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was far more.
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So, to refresh our readers' memories (as well as our own), Covers chosen when again to round up the top stories of the year. The sluggish news days were rare, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) authorizes mobile sports betting

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

Missouri approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by roughly 3,000 votes out of nearly 3 million cast. This was not simply the closest margin of any gaming-related step this election cycle but the closest in any state considering that the Supreme Court struck down the federal wagering ban in 2018.

After evaluating the final main outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - officially - that the sports betting wagering tally step has actually maintained adequate assistance from Election Day tallies to pass