A lot can occur in a year. And this previous year, a lot occurred in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming market - and then some.

A referendum in Missouri, prominent betting scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college gamer prop sports betting are simply a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was far more.

So, to revitalize our readers' memories (as well as our own), Covers decided when 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 (hardly) authorizes mobile sports betting wagering

Any state authorizing 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 authorized retail and mobile sportsbooks by roughly 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 because the Supreme Court overruled the federal wagering restriction in 2018.

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