Thursday's BEST BETS: Sugar Bowl + NBA + CBB I The Early Edge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by Larry Hartstein, Jon Eimer and Mackenzie Brooks to dish out Thursday's best bets!
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!
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| 1:09.8 | Good morning everyone and another happy new year to you all. |
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| 1:20.3 | We have a great show for you today. |
| 1:22.4 | But before we talk about our picks for a Thursday, let's take a look at how we did yesterday, courtesy of the recap screen. |
| 1:30.3 | It looks like we went two and two. My golf play is pending Harry Hall minus 140 over Nick Taylor. |
| 1:37.2 | I did say if you wanted to throw a three ball in, Harry Hall over Taylor and Vegas is a potential |
| 1:42.6 | play at Plus Money. That golf tournament has not tipped off yet. |
| 1:45.3 | We still got a couple of hours there. |
| 1:47.0 | Tom Casale, good stuff with Trayvion Henderson, |
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