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A lot can take place in a year. And this past year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming industry - and after that some.
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A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college player prop sports betting are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was far more.
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So, to revitalize our readers' memories (in addition to our own), Covers decided as soon as again to round up the leading stories of the year. The slow news days were couple of and far between, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) authorizes mobile sports betting

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

Missouri approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by approximately 3,000 votes out of nearly three million cast. This was not just the closest margin of any gaming-related step this election cycle but the closest in any state since the Supreme Court overruled the federal wagering restriction in 2018.

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