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A lot can happen in a year. And this past year, a lot happened in the legal sports betting and iGaming industry - and then some.
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A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college player prop wagering are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.
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So, to refresh our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers chosen once again to round up the leading stories of the year. The sluggish news days were few and far in between, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (hardly) approves mobile sports betting wagering

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

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

After examining the last official results of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - officially - that the sports betting ballot measure has actually kept sufficient support from Election Day tallies to pass