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A lot can occur 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 sports betting scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college player prop wagering are just a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was much more.
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So, to revitalize our readers' memories (as well as our own), Covers chosen once again to assemble the leading stories of the year. The slow news days were scarce, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) authorizes mobile sports betting wagering

Any state approving legal sports betting is a big deal. How Missouri did it - and what follows - makes it among the year's most crucial stories.

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

After examining the last main results of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - formally - that the sports betting wagering tally measure has preserved enough support from Election Day tallies to pass