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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

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

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Start your week off with some winners! Join Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure, and Mike Barner as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(4:49) Mike's Iowa State-Arizona Bet

(7:44) Mikey B's NBA Prop and Parlay

(13:10) Free Sportsline NBA Prop

(17:00) Sia's Golf Bet

(20:50) Larry's NBA Prop and College Basketball Bet

(23:28) ISU-Arizona Spread Picks

(27:02) Duke-NC State Picks


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone, welcome to the Early Edge.

0:11.8

We are brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary.

0:15.5

My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of Cash.

0:19.3

I see Brandon McDonald in here, Will likes Rick Funcannon, Chris Kish, Dan Casey. Thanks for being in here. I see you, Jen and Scotty too hot. I wanted to read that one out loud. Let's take a look at our recap screen. See if we were hot there. Well, on the right side of the screen, we were hot. On the left side, not so much. Me, Buckets and Chip and Tom lose,

0:38.0

but Mikey B, one for two plus the Pampers parlay. Mike McClure hits his play. Danny Brasco goes three for five and our sports line picks go two and oh. Seven and eight, not a good day, but certainly not a terrible day. We had a good week overall last week. Let's start things out hot today this morning on a Monday with a bit of a dream team here.

0:57.5

Mike McClure. week overall last week. Let's start things out hot today this morning on a Monday with a bit of a

0:56.5

dream team here. Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, and Mikey B, Mikey B, you know I'm going to start with

1:02.3

you. You went one for two on Friday, which is, you know, it's fine, but you hit the Pampers Parlay at

1:07.9

plus, I believe, 184. How you feeling today, buddy?

1:27.2

I'm good. Yeah, our mission to diaper America is continuing. We've hit two of the last Pamper's parlay. So hopefully we got that really thick, extra absorbent diapers in a lot of households. Mike McClure, we've got a lot of people talking golf already in the chat. Shane Lowry, A lot of people had him in one and done.

1:27.7

I didn't.

1:30.4

I wish I did, even though he completely blew it.

1:47.5

We talk about there's some people talking about Nico Etchevria, how in our splash sports one and done. Only one person had him. We've got so many tournaments. We've got, you know, the world tour's got a tournament. Liv's got a tournament. We've got the Puerto Rico open, which is the alternate event. And of course, we have the API. This is a huge golf week.

1:53.6

Huge golf week. And as we wrap up this huge golf week, it's essentially March Madness time at that point. We approach Selection Sunday, the conference tournaments. And then before

1:58.8

you know, MLB opening day in the master's. So yes,

2:01.7

a lot of great things in the next 40 days in the sports world. So fired up for it. But

2:08.0

API tournament is one that I always, always enjoy. I think that it's a unique change from

2:15.0

some of the golf we've seen so far early this season.

2:23.3

And yeah, I know what your pick is coming later in the show, and I do fully endorse that one.

2:24.7

Absolutely love it.

2:30.3

I actually put some picks for the Puerto Rico open in our sports line Discord as well, Larry. And I'll all verbally shout those out as well just for the audio listeners and the live

2:35.7

viewers to hear. But Larry, there's a lot going on right now, sports-wise, sports line-wise.

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