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

A referendum in Missouri, high-profile wagering scandals, and crackdowns on an overseas sportsbook and college gamer prop betting are simply a few of the big stories of 2024. But there was a lot more.

So, to revitalize our readers' memories (along with our own), Covers chosen once again to round up the top stories of the year. The slow news days were scarce, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (barely) approves mobile sports betting wagering

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

Missouri approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by approximately 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 because the Supreme Court overruled the federal betting restriction in 2018.

After reviewing the last official outcomes of every Missouri county with more than 10,000 votes this election, I can state - formally - that the sports wagering tally measure has actually preserved adequate support from Election Day tallies to pass