Thursday's Best Bets: Orange Bowl + NFL + Sony Open
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Sia Nejad is joined Larry Hartstein, Buckets and Mackenzie Brooks to dish out Thursday's best bets!
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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! 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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| 1:09.7 | Good morning everyone and welcome to the early edge. It's Thursday. We've got a lot of Penn State, Notre Dame chatter in the chat. We've got a lot of soccer to talk about, basketball, NFL, college football. It's all coming up on the early edge. Thank you for joining us. Smash the like button. Let's take a look at how we did |
| 1:28.3 | yesterday on the recap screen. It's been a lot of winning, winning screens here. This is a small one. |
| 1:34.1 | We've got some picks pending, but we'll take two in one. Arkansas minus two and a half doesn't |
| 1:38.8 | come through, but the other two from Prop Stars and Martin Green do. So we'll see how the pending bets go, but we'll take two and one. |
| 1:46.1 | It's certainly better than the alternative one in two. |
| 1:49.3 | We've had a lot of winning recap screens over the last two, two and a half weeks. |
| 1:52.6 | So let's keep it rolling with the stars of the show, which of course include all of you, |
| 1:57.7 | Ramo and Freddie Bear and Michael and Mikecclore is in the chat which you got |
| 2:03.1 | a love he'll be on fft t dFS with me and make shop at 11 o'clock we got larry hartstein we got |
| 2:07.5 | mackenzie brooks and we've got an under the weather buckets who's who's making it in and let's |
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