Thursday's BEST BETS: College Basketball + NBA Props + Early IU-Miami
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Happy Thursday! Sia Nejad is joined by Mike McClure, Tom Casale, Mike Barner, and Zack Cimini as they give out their FAVORITE bets for Thursday's slate of games in the NBA, College Basketball, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:30) NBA Betting issues
(7:08) Zack's CBB Bet
(8:35) Mike's Golf Prop
(10:40) Sia's Sony Open First Round Leaders
(15:01) Mikey B's NBA Props
(15:45) CBB Futures to Bet RIGHT NOW
(20:24) Sia's Early NFL Prop
(23:13) Tom's Early CFB Natty Bet
(23:55) Bonus Bets!
(31:07) Indiana-Miami Championship Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.5 | We are brought to by BenMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.8 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:16.6 | We've got a great cast, and we've got all you in the chat. |
| 0:19.0 | Cleveland Clown, Rick Funcannon, Brad Morris, Ray Brown is in here. |
| 0:39.4 | Mark Thomas, Joe Everett, Patrick Hillier is also in here. Let's see how we did on the recap screen. Yesterday's recap was 4 and 1. Today's 5 and 2. Good job, Buckets. Goes 2 out of 3. Larry hits his Western Carolina play very easily. Mikey B has a void play and he has a loss, |
| 0:39.4 | but I feel like we have to talk about that Bulls game. hits his Western Carolina play very easily. Mikey B has a void play and he has a loss, |
| 0:42.9 | but I feel like we have to talk about that Bulls game a little bit on the show today. |
| 0:44.9 | And the sports line picks go 2 and O. |
| 0:46.9 | You absolutely love to see that. |
| 0:51.3 | All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's bring in the stars of the show here on a Thursday. Now, we don't have Thursday night football tonight, |
| 0:55.8 | but Mike McClure, we do have golf. |
| 1:00.8 | We do have college basketball to talk about with Zach Simony. We've got NBA with Mikey B, |
| 1:06.2 | Tom Casale with some college football, and I'll be talking some PGA and NFL as well. |
| 1:12.3 | But first, we've got John Harbaugh as a New York Giants head football coach. And Mikey B, I know you're a Giants fan. Talk to me. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, see, thank you for this opportunity to discuss one of the best head coach hires in New York |
| 1:21.9 | football Giants history. |
| 1:23.6 | It has been an embarrassment to be a Giants fan since Tom Coughlin left. |
| 1:27.6 | It is great to be a Giants fan again. |
| 1:29.9 | I had to bust out the Super Bowl hats today. |
| 1:33.1 | They're not in the best of shape. |
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