The Biggest Sports Betting and IGaming Stories Of 2024
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A lot can occur in a year. And this past year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting wagering and iGaming industry - and then some.
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A referendum in Missouri, high-profile betting scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college player prop wagering are simply a few of the huge stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.

So, to refresh our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers chosen once again to assemble the top stories of the year. The sluggish news days were couple of and far between, as you'll soon see.

Missouri (hardly) authorizes mobile sports betting wagering

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

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

After evaluating the last official results of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can say - formally - that the sports betting wagering ballot procedure has actually preserved sufficient assistance from Election Day tallies to pass