Thursday's BEST BETS: NBA Picks + College Basketball + Golf Props
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Get your Thursday BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, EC, Zack Cimini, and Propstarz, as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, PGA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:55) Tom's College Basketball Pick
(8:20) Propstarz NBA Prop
(10:10) Free Sportsline NBA, CBB Picks
(13:00) Zack's College Basketball Pick
(14:27) EC's College Basketball Bet + Golf Parlay
(18:09) Sia's Golf Prop
(19:55) Ben's NBA Pick
(21:17) BONUS Bets!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.5 | We are brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.7 | I got to say the chat has been on fire, and we are just getting started. |
| 0:18.3 | What's up, Big Rody? |
| 0:19.5 | What's up, Ryan? |
| 0:38.7 | Mike McClure is in the chat. Ask him anything you want. Zach Asanky. Joe Newenfeld is in the chat. Let's see how we did on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We go three and four. Bucats has been hot for about a week and a half, two weeks, but 0 for 3 for on this one. But no worries, Jeff Hockman, Mike McClure, one of our two sports line picks hit. Three and four, certainly not a good day, but we can do a little bit better, |
| 0:44.4 | maybe a lot better with this crew coming in right here, right now. |
| 0:49.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, check it out. We've got Tom Casale, we got prop stars, we got Eric Cohen, |
| 0:56.4 | we got Zach Cimony. I'm not really sure where to start tom i'm going to start with you we are in the thick of march madness at least |
| 1:02.4 | it kind of feels like that with these conference tournaments underway how you feeling feeling good i |
| 1:08.0 | you know i'm looking forward to next week when there's games throughout the day, all the |
| 1:12.7 | conference tournaments will get rolling. You know, listen, I love March Madness as much as the next |
| 1:17.5 | guy, but I really love that conference tournament week. It gets you in the mood. And I also think |
| 1:22.8 | there's some better betting opportunities in conference tournaments. Speaking of betting opportunities, |
| 1:27.1 | we're going to have some live shows specifically related to March Madness. |
| 1:30.8 | So make sure you subscribe to this channel. |
| 1:32.6 | Make sure you have notifications turned on. |
| 1:34.8 | And we will be promoting those probably within the next day or so, |
| 1:37.9 | giving you the schedule on that. |
| 1:39.7 | Zach Simony, how you doing? |
| 1:40.7 | Did you come with some college basketball NBA today? |
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