A lot can happen in a year. And this past year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting and iGaming market - and after that some.

A referendum in Missouri, high-profile wagering scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college player prop betting are simply a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was much more.

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

Missouri (barely) authorizes mobile sports betting

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

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

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