Friday's BEST BETS: NBA + CBB + Premier League + UFC
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Join Sia Nejad, Chip Patterson, Mike Barner, Buckets, and Danny Brasco as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, Soccer, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(6:15) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(9:40) Chip's Michigan-Illinois Bet
(16:57) SportsLine Picks (CBB, NHL)
(19:32) Mikey B's NBA Props + MVP Pick
(22:10) Sia's Golf Pick
(24:48) Danny's UFC Picks
(31:35) Bonus NBA, Soccer, CBB Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, happy Friday and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:13.0 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:17.0 | Legendary Day yesterday, if you found the first round leader market with me and jason sobel we had |
| 0:22.4 | austin smotherman 110 to one big celebration in the sports line discord how did we do on the thursday |
| 0:28.1 | recap screen three two and one i go one for two i missed the plus 270 play e c one oh and one the push |
| 0:35.9 | really should have been a win he should have been two and no prop stars hits his pick we go three two and one. The push really should have been a win. He should have been two and oh. |
| 0:38.0 | Prop stars hits his pick. |
| 0:39.1 | We go three, two, and one. |
| 0:40.8 | We'll take that with a lot of extra money |
| 0:42.8 | if you watched and invested in the early wedge. |
| 0:45.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, we got to turn the page. |
| 0:47.5 | We got to get a good recap screen for Monday with the Friday crew, |
| 0:51.0 | otherwise known as the BPE Friday crew. |
| 0:57.9 | Music Friday crew, otherwise known as the BPE Friday crew. We got Mikey B. |
| 1:04.0 | We got Bats with a dinosaur. |
| 1:06.6 | We got Danny Brasco. |
| 1:07.9 | And ladies and gentlemen, if you hadn't had your espresso, |
| 1:10.5 | your double, your triple, or your quadruple, well, we've got Chip Patterson for your Friday. Chip me up. Good morning. Good morning. Bucket's good morning. Good morning. Michael. Good morning. Good morning. Her morning. Hap. Today is about resilience. Today is about commitment. Today is about trust. It is about resilience today is about commitment today is about trust it is about |
| 1:29.8 | trusting yourself because when you put in the work you don't chase all the signal you'll chase |
| 1:36.4 | all the noise you look for the signal we are eyes on signal we are eyes on winner we're bouncing |
| 1:43.0 | back from last night see you you. Let's go. |
| 1:45.5 | Let's go. Mikey B. speaking of bouncing, talk to me about the NBA slate and those ridiculous |
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