A lot can take place in a year. And this previous year, a lot took place in the legal sports betting and iGaming industry - and then some.

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

So, to revitalize our readers' memories (in addition to our own), Covers decided once again to round up the leading stories of the year. The sluggish news days were couple of and far between, as you'll quickly see.

Missouri (hardly) approves mobile sports betting

Any state approving 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 approved retail and mobile sportsbooks by roughly 3,000 votes out of almost three million cast. This was not just the closest margin of any gaming-related measure this election cycle but the closest in any state because the Supreme Court overruled the federal wagering restriction in 2018.

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