The NASCAR spotlight will shine on the Tar Heel State for the second straight week as Charlotte Motor Speedway hosts its annual Memorial Day weekend showcase, the Coca-Cola 600 tomorrow. Sign up today with the best North Carolina sports betting apps and you can cash in on thousands of dollars in welcome offers.

Joey Logano dominated last Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway but was overshadowed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch, who got into a post-race, pit-row brawl after Busch wrecked Stenhouse on the second lap of the 200-lap race. Stenhouse was fined $75K for throwing the first punch but wasn’t suspended, so both drivers will race at CMS. Busch is +1800 on the pre-race odds, whole Stenhouse is +10000. Denny Hamlin is the favorite at +500.

You can wager on the Coca-Cola 600 – or the Indy 500 – the NBA and NHL conference finals and so much more from the palm of your hand with these North Carolina betting apps.

Best North Carolina Sports Betting Apps

Every North Carolina resident and visitor who’s thinking about wagering on needs to grab these North Carolina sports betting apps and bonuses to load up their bankroll.

BetMGM NC Betting App

As we start discussing all the North Carolina sports betting apps, let’s start with the biggest number on the board, available with the BetMGM North Carolina bonus code SBWIRE.

Make your first bet on any sport available on the BetMGM app — one of the best North Carolina betting apps. If it loses, you will receive bonus bets back as a refund. For wagers below $50, you will get one credit for the full amount. For bets of $50 and more (capped at $1,500), you will receive five bonus bets, each equal to 20% of your original bet.

Caesars Sportsbook North Carolina Betting App

The Caesars Sportsbook NC promo code gives new time users a $1,000 First Bet on Caesars. If your opening bet up to $1,000 after registration loses, Caesars will pay you back with a matching bonus bet.

You have 14 days to play the bonus bet credit, which comes with no odds restrictions and carries a 1X playthrough – meaning anything you win while wagering with the bonus bet is yours to keep.

FanDuel North Carolina Sports Betting App

When you sign up for a FanDuel account with the FanDuel North Carolina promo code and play a $5 first bet, $200 in bonus bets are all yours.

You get seven days to play these bonus bets, but here’s where FanDuel is unique. FanDuel allows you to spread around your $200 in bonus bets any way you like. If you want to use it all on one game, that’s cool. If you think it’d be awesome to have something down on 15 games, then go for it. They’re your bonus bets. The minimum bonus bet wager is just $5, meaning you could make 40 bets if you like – including props and parlays. Each time a bonus bet wins, you win cash.

bet365 North Carolina Sports Betting App

Let’s shake it up a little bit, courtesy of bet365 NC. When you register for a bet365 account with the bet365 North Carolina bonus code SBWIRENC, you’re allowed to decide whether you want either $150 in bonus bets for placing a $5 first bet or a First Bet Safety Net up to $1,000.

With the first offer, you simply make a $5 first bet on anything you want and you’ll get $150 in bonus bets immediately. With the First Bet Safety Net, you get to make a first bet anywhere from $10 to $1,000 with the knowledge that bet365 returns the amount of your bet to your account as bonus bets if it loses.

Fanatics Sportsbook North Carolina Betting App

The Fanatics Sportsbook North Carolina promo code delivers the potential for up to $1,000 in bonus bets with one of the more intriguing North Carolina sportsbook apps available.

When you sign up today, you will receive a matching bonus bet equal to your first wager, up to $100. Then for the next nine days, you can select a real-money wager and have it matched as well – up to $100 each day – for a potential $1,000 in total bonus bets.

DraftKings NC Sports Betting App

Let’s close out this embarrassment of potential riches by checking out what DraftKings has to offer. If you start an account with the DraftKings North Carolina promo code, you’ll get to receive $200 in bonus bets the instant you place a $5 first bet.

As soon as you plunk down your $5 first bet, DraftKings whisks you eight $25 bonus bets, and you’ll have seven days to play them on any sport you want. Any bonus bet needs to win just once for you to collect the profit in cash.

Bet on NBA, NHL Conference Finals & More With These North Carolina Betting Apps

The Celtics can take a commanding 3-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference finals when that series shifts to Indiana’s Gainbridge Fieldhouse tonight. Boston is unbeaten on the road (4-0) in the playoffs this year. Meanwhile, the Stars will look to even their series against the Oilers in Game 2 in Dallas. No team has lost the first time games at home and come back to win a conference final since the league expanded in 1967-68.

The North Carolina sports betting apps and the sportsbook promos designed for the dawn of this online sports betting era can be utilized on more than 20 sports all over the globe — everything from auto racing to hockey to football to futbol.

There will be plenty of drama. But if you want no drama, then just cash in on $1,700 in bonus bets thanks to all of these spectacular North Carolina betting promos available for new customers. Keep in mind, you can sign up for as many of these as you want!

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Nick Kurtz hit a two-run home run to ignite a four-run 12th inning after his two-out RBI double tied the game in the ninth and No. 8 seed Wake Forest defeated top-seeded North Carolina 9-5 on Friday night to advance to the ACC Tournament semifinals.

Wake Forest (38-19) will play No. 2 seed Clemson in the first semifinal on Saturday. No. 6 seed Duke and 11th-seeded Miami square off in the second one. The two winners will play for the championship on Sunday.

The Demon Deacons got the win despite wasting a stellar performance from starting pitcher Chase Burns.

Burns struck out 15 in six shutout innings and left with a 4-0 lead before North Carolina (42-13) rallied against the Wake Forest bullpen.

The Demon Deacons took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning when Marek Houston sent a 2-2 pitch from Tar Heels starter Shea Sprague over the fence in left field.

The lead grew to 2-0 the next inning on a home run to left field by Adam Tellier.

Wake Forest pushed across two more runs in the top of the seventh for a 4-0 advantage. Liam Willson drew a leadoff walk and catcher Cameron Gill, the No. 9 batter, followed with the Demon Deacons’ third home run of the game.

Blake Morningstar replaced Burns to begin the seventh and left after walking the only two batters he faced. Will Ray took the mound and allowed three runs to score before striking out Alex Madera with two on to end the inning with a 4-3 lead.

The Tar Heels went ahead 5-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning on Vance Honeycutt’s RBI double and a run-scoring single by Parks Harber.

Ben Shenosky (5-3) earned the win by getting the final two outs in the 11th.

Ben Peterson (2-2) took the loss for the Tar Heels, allowing four runs — three earned — on two hits and a walk in 1 1/3 innings of relief.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — To a room full of Republicans from across North Carolina on Friday, former President Donald Trump railed against the Biden administration and vowed to win in the state for a third time — all over a speaker phone call after his son Eric Trump dialed him on stage.

“I just want to thank all of the people of North Carolina. The support has been great and never wavered,” Donald Trump said, met by cheers from hundreds in the crowd.

The four-minute phone call kicked off keynote speeches from RNC co-chair Lara Trump and her husband, Eric Trump, at the North Carolina GOP Convention in Greensboro. The couple touted key changes to the national Republican Party under Lara Trump’s leadership and insisted on the necessity of getting Trump back in office.

“What we have going on in this country right now is not Republican versus Democrat or left versus right,” Lara Trump, a Wilmington, North Carolina, native, said during the couple’s almost 40-minute address. “It’s good versus evil.”

Lara and Eric Trump’s speech comes a year after Trump addressed North Carolina Republicans as a keynote speaker at the party’s 2023 convention — one of his first public appearances a few days after his first criminal indictment claiming he mishandled classified federal documents was handed down from a grand jury.

Lara Trump and her husband Eric Trump leave after speaking at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greensboro, N.C., Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Chuck Burton

But a lot has changed at the state and national party since Trump’s June visit to the convention — including his daughter-in-law’s meteoric rise within the Republican National Committee.

Lara Trump became the RNC’s co-chair, the party’s top fundraising official, in March and serves as No. 2 to Michael Whatley, the new RNC chair and former chair of the North Carolina Republican Party who is expected to speak at the NCGOP Convention on Saturday. Both Whatley and Lara Trump came into their leadership positions looking to revitalize the party and ensure Trump’s victory in November.

In the weeks following their ascension, the RNC saw major shakeups in staffing and an increase in fundraising — the latter greatly needed to fund Trump’s growing legal fees as he faces multiple civil and criminal trials.

While Lara Trump is early in her role, Nancy Murray, a GOP delegate from Charlotte, said she has high hopes for what Trump’s daughter-in-law will bring to party leadership.

She also said Lara Trump may be a major improvement from previous longtime RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who Murray believes is a RINO — a derogatory term for conservatives meaning Republican in Name Only.

Under McDaniel, Emily Bourgeois, another Charlotte delegate, said the party suffered financial issues and lost too many races across the country.

“I’m hopeful Lara Trump can bring this back,” Bourgeois said before the speech.

Lara Trump pitched the RNC shifts to the crowd as necessary changes to winning the 2024 election, which included an emphasis on getting Republicans to turn out in massive droves in November. She urged the crowd to vote as early as possible — including by mail-in ballots, which Republicans such as Trump previously admonished against — and take others to cast their ballots to make sure the election is “too big to rig.”

“Any way you can vote and as early as you can vote, get your vote banked,” Lara Trump said.

The couple levied significant criticism against the Biden administration, which included concerns on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and inflation. As a way to get back to the country’s “guiding principles,” Eric Trump told the crowd that he and Lara Trump were committed to leading Trump’s campaign to victory by November.

“We’re going to make America great again, and we’re going to do it together and we’re going to start in North Carolina,” Eric Trump said.

Other prominent conservatives are scheduled to speak at the Greensboro convention over the weekend, including former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson.

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