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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Thursday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball Bets + Golf

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's Thursday's BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Larry Hartstein, Propstarz, Tom Casale, and Eric Cohen! They give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(4:55) Tom's College Basketball Bet

(7:20) EC's Golf Pick & College Basketball Bet

(10:26) Free Sportsline CBB Bet

(11:25) MSU-Purdue Bets

(13:58) Larry's College Basketball Bet

(15:38) Propstarz NBA Prop

(19:43) Sia's Golf Bet


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We've got a great show for you today. I see the chat is already popping. Will like Stephen Fulkerz. Jeff Stenberg is in here. Ron Moore, Buckets is in the chat. Speaking of buckets, let's look at the recap screen real quick. Ladies and gentlemen, okay, we go six and four. It's a good day, certainly, but look at the left side of this screen. Shout out to Brad Thomas, who came onto this show a couple of days ago. He hits his pick. Martin Green goes two for two. And not only does buckets go two for two, by the way, with his top button fastened, but since he's been wearing that shirt, the top button fastened, he's gone six for six on this early edge show. So I'm just saying we miss out on a lot of the hockey picks. Mike McClure hits his pick. No surprise there. We go six and four. It's a few winning

0:56.5

days in a row for us. Let's try to make it another one with the stars of the show. Let's bring

1:01.8

them in right here right now. Buckets is in the chat. Ask him anything you want soccer related.

1:07.2

We've got EC. We've got Larry Hartstein. We've got prop stars and we've got Tom Casale. Larry, I'm going to start with you.

1:13.5

First of all, props to our soccer team from yesterday. But how are you feeling today?

1:17.6

I'm feeling great. The one thing that is kind of bugging me today, Sia, is this big story about the NBA and the Utah Jazz that Lori marketing gets hurt in practice.

1:26.7

They take an MRI. Aren't MRIs

1:29.2

viewable online? Supposedly the NBA is sending multiple doctors to Utah to look at the tests.

1:35.7

I mean, can't you just forward them to MRI? It's a story that is kind of fascinating to me,

1:41.4

a lot of intrigue in the NBA right now. Yeah, you can do that, Larry. So I don't understand why you need boots on the ground to look at an MRI. It's definitely, we're in 2026 at this point. EC, I saw you cringing a little bit. How you doing today? Well, that's my U of A guy, Lori Market, and so, you know, we have to monitor him. See, is it a bad thing? You know, I'm sitting here sweating round one cognizant classic stuff here. Is it a bad thing if I go to a spring training game today just so I have a reason to parlay a line with some in play top tens, round one top tens. Are you okay with that? I'm okay with that because that's just

2:18.5

the EC method. So I mean, I just don't want you to change it up now, EC. What game would you be going to? I would go to the Royals Diamondbacks game. It's about 15 minutes away from me. It's a $20 ticket. You know, stand there, watch, you know, sweat out some spring training baseball for nine innings. What's wrong with that? You know how you win that $20 back. Prop stars,

2:37.5

how you doing today? stand there, watch, you know, sweat out some spring training baseball for nine innings.

2:51.5

What's wrong with that? You know how you win that $20 back? Prop stars, how are you doing today? I got to give you props because I know you weren't on the show yesterday. But two days ago, you gave out that Ben Carrow prop. You were extremely, you know, I don't know, like confident about it, for lack of a better word. I saw you on CBS Sports HQ. I was on there right after you.

2:53.1

You were talking about that Verity play.

2:54.2

People caught that.

2:51.5

They made band care. confident about it, for lack of a better word. I saw you on CBS Sports HQ. I was on there right after you.

3:13.8

You were talking about that Verity play. People caught that. They made band caro their king of the court play over at D.K. And one, everybody cleared 800 bucks or more. I can't remember. I didn't have that. But shout out to you. How are you doing today, bud? Yeah, I'm doing great. good morning, gentlemen. Hello, Sportsline Fam. Currently broadcasting from my phone, which is a little bit of a pivot here in PropStars Studio HQ. But yeah, I'm fired up. We've got a really nice little eight-game slate in the NBA

3:19.5

and got a pick that I absolutely love. All right, Tom, we're going to go to a pick that you

3:24.1

absolutely love. Your official pick Tom, we're going to go to a pick that you absolutely love.

3:25.0

Your official pick today comes from college basketball.

3:29.0

Talk to me about Michigan, Illinois.

3:32.6

Yeah, I'm going to give this one out here because I think this number is going to go up on the total.

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