Thursday's BEST BETS: NBA + College Football and More! | The Early Edge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Allie O'Neill and Martin W. Green to dish out Thursday's best bets!
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ABOUT THE SHOW: Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! Need more? Catch The Early Edge in 5 every weekday afternoon at 4pm ET as we attack MORE best bets for that night’s slate…and in only five minutes! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a smart booker or a silly booker? |
| 0:07.4 | Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach. |
| 0:13.8 | Silly bookers? Well, enjoy those cues at the bar. Stop booking around and visit Onthebeach.com. |
| 0:21.4 | Conditions apply. |
| 0:22.6 | Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected. |
| 0:28.7 | On the beach. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, what's good everybody? |
| 0:36.6 | It is Thursday, December 29th. |
| 0:38.9 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome to the early edge of your daily sports betting brand of record. |
| 0:43.2 | We are powered as always by the almighty sports line. |
| 0:45.9 | The best value in all sports betting, and it is not even close. |
| 0:49.5 | I am in a glorious mood this morning, and you ask the question, question coach how can that be possible when you |
| 0:57.0 | lost a showdown to big cheesy i'm going to tell you how what do you guys know about me do i want |
| 1:02.0 | to beat big cheesy of course i do but when he wins everybody won why because the nuggets closed |
| 1:09.9 | up plus three let's go ahead and bring up our recap, as we always do. I've never been more happy to take an X in my life because I still won a lot of money and Big Cheesy won the showdown. So I'm ecstatic. Big Cheesy, congratulations. And I also saw in the chat. He wants to be one of the first ones to donate into our St. Jude account. Well, hang on to that money, whatever you want to do. After the first of the year, we'll have that set up and you can donate. But thank you very much. We're going to donate a lot of money next year and have a lot of fun in our showdowns. Thanks to people like Big Cheesy. Now, with that being said, we have a very busy, busy day at the brand today. |
| 1:48.6 | In addition to our morning show, the prop shop is wide open on Twitter spaces with your |
| 1:54.6 | man prop stars today at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, and you want to tune in live for that because |
| 1:58.9 | tonight, Cowboys and the Titans, a very difficult game to handicap. |
| 2:04.6 | Then at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, we have early edge in five more best bets. |
| 2:09.4 | Then, of course, tonight, 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time. |
| 2:11.4 | We are early edge live for the Cowboys and the Titans counting down to Thursday night football. |
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