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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 then some.

A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an offshore sportsbook and college player prop sports betting are simply 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 decided once again to assemble the leading stories of the year. The slow news days were couple of and far between, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

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 authorized retail and mobile sportsbooks by roughly 3,000 votes out of almost 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 examining the final official outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - officially - that the sports betting wagering ballot measure has maintained enough support from Election Day tallies to pass