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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Monday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball Bets

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

MONDAY'S BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Mike Barner, Mike McClure, and Brad Thomas as they hand out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, Golf, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(7:00) Mike's Kansas-Houston Bet

(9:09) Brad's Soccer Picks

(18:38) Larry's College Basketball Bet

(20:35) Sia's College Basketball Bet

(21:40) Mikey B's NBA Props and Pampers Parlay

(24:15) Bonus Soccer Picks, Golf Outrights, NBA Bets


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Transcript

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0:00.0

A very good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make It legendary.

0:16.0

We've got a legendary show for you today.

0:17.8

We got a special guest on today's show and a lot of your favorite cappers. Let's see how we did on Friday. However, I will tell you, being Danny Brasco didn't do you any favors. Buckets wins two out of three. Chip Patterson goes one for two. Mike hits his play. I lose my golf plays. Danny Brasco and UFC didn't do great there. But I will say if you were in the sports line Discord, you got a couple of golf plays that hit for me, early wedge. A lot of my plays hit. Unfortunately, the three I gave out on this show did not come to fruition. I do want to give Beachbum a shout out before we bring in the stars of the show. If you're part of our sports line Discord, you might have seen Beachbum won 100,000 in DFS on Sunday, thanks to, of course, the Genesis invitation. So a big shout out to him. He was giving a shout out to the early edge and the early wedge. So make sure you watch the early wedge 7 o'clock every Tuesday night. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's bring in the stars of the show. I see you, Josh. I see you Jen, I see a Jeff Stenberg, Zach Kassanke. We've got Mikey B, we've got Mike McClure, we've got Larry Hartstein, and we've got a bit of a newcomer here, special guest, Brad Thomas. Brad, you cover soccer, you cover college football, I think you cover NFL, you cover golf, certainly. And I got to give you some

1:27.9

congratulations before I intro you because you're looking at a guy who's been betting Jacob

1:32.8

Bridgman for months and all of 2026. I stayed off in this week. You got on him this week at 100 to 1.

1:39.7

Congrats to you, my friend. Dude, thank you. It felt so good. Listen, I put out a tweet last week before he started playing really well, and I said, Jacob Bridgman is going to win very soon. There was no way that I could not bet him the following week, especially what plans to bet him during the Florida swing. So I'm super stoked. Yeah, and I know you've got a bet for the Florida swing already and outright.

2:00.9

You've got some soccer picks as well. Mike McClure, how you doing today?

2:04.1

I'm doing well. See you, fired up to be here again.

2:07.1

Great week last week. It felt kind of like the old days on the morning show,

2:12.5

four days in a row there, I guess five now coming back Monday. So fired up,

2:17.7

awesome little college basketball slate.

2:19.5

Not many games, but one absolute banger of a game.

2:23.0

Congrats to Brad on Bridgman.

2:24.4

I am watching very closely this week.

2:28.8

I want to see how he responds this week.

2:32.0

He's essentially a co-favorant.

2:33.4

He might close as a co-favorit.

2:35.2

He is just only behind Ben Griffin and odds right now.

2:38.2

And very interested to see he was impressive down the stretch.

2:43.3

You know, he had a big lead.

2:45.1

He almost gave it back, but not really.

2:46.8

Like it was not as close as the scoreboard indicated.

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