Tonight’s BEST BETS: College Basketball + NBA and More! | The Early Edge in 5
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Eric Cohen, Mike Barner and Jason Spector to bring you MORE best bets for Thursday!
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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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| 0:29.3 | dot org what's good everybody welcome in to the early edge and Five more best bets for the night in sports on this Thursday. |
| 0:42.8 | And I got to tell you, we have some potentially good news coming out of Buffalo, according to the Associated Press. |
| 0:49.2 | And the doctors have been doing interviews. We'll have all of the good news coming up at the bottom of the hour at 4.30 p.m. Eastern time as our NFL mega preview for this week only moves to Thursday. |
| 1:00.5 | But how about the quote? |
| 1:01.5 | If you haven't seen it on social media this morning, how cool is this? |
| 1:04.7 | Apparently, he can write, can't speak yet, but he wrote, who won the game? |
| 1:09.0 | And the doctors, according to the AP, wrote back, |
| 1:12.1 | you won the game of life. Wow, is that strong? And that's really, really good news. So with that |
| 1:19.2 | being said, let's bring in the stars of the show, because the show always must go on. And I've got |
| 1:24.9 | absolute three of my very best today, So we have no time to waste. |
| 1:29.0 | Speculator, once again, you're just clipping off wins day after day after day. So if you don't |
| 1:35.1 | mind, sir, please start us off. Yeah, we're going to start off in the NBA with Jason Tatum |
| 1:41.0 | over 31 and a half points with back-to-back losses for the Celtics and three |
| 1:46.5 | under 30 performances from Jason Tatum in the last three games. |
| 1:50.2 | This is a get right game and the fact that it's on national television against another |
| 1:54.4 | big superstar, just scream statement game. |
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