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
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Mike Barner, Eric Cohen and Jason Spector to bring you MORE best bets for Thursday!
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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| 0:00.0 | Skybet, Acker Freeze. |
| 0:03.0 | If an absolute screamer or a howler from their keeper has put you in front, |
| 0:09.0 | don't let a lively winger on a mazie runs or your bet. |
| 0:13.0 | Just freeze a winning score and win a leg of your Acker early with Skybet Acker Freeze. |
| 0:19.0 | Skybet for the fans. Minimum five selections. Pre-match football only, |
| 0:23.8 | full-time result market only. Max 820 pounds. Max three freezes per week. Eligibility restrictions |
| 0:27.5 | and further TNCs apply. 18 plus. Gambleaware.org. Oh, what's good everybody? Welcome |
| 0:36.1 | here to the Early Edge in Five. |
| 0:38.3 | More Best Betts for the night in sports. |
| 0:40.6 | A quick thank you to all of you who just moments ago made the Twitter spaces, |
| 0:45.4 | the prop shop, the biggest prop shop we've ever done all season. |
| 0:50.5 | So thank you for that and tuning in for that. |
| 0:52.7 | But on this show, we have no time to waste. |
| 0:54.7 | It's bringing the stars of the show. You know them. You love them. We've got the speculator. |
| 0:58.8 | We've got EC. And we got my man, Mikey B. Gentlemen, no time to waste. However, when you host a |
| 1:06.7 | podcast with Bill Walton on it, it deserves 20 seconds of a reaction. How was your time with |
| 1:12.5 | Bill Walton yesterday, E.C.? You know, coach, you warned me before the show. You said you're |
| 1:16.8 | going to get four questions, got five in 40 minutes. He went to the last second. His memory |
| 1:22.7 | is phenomenal. He's a gentleman, but it was something. I'll just say that. It was something. |
| 1:28.4 | That's not even good. It's not that. It was something. That's not even good. |
| 1:29.6 | It's not bad. It's something. It was indescribable. I mean, you've talked to him. You know how he is? I worked for 10 years. Yes. I worked with him for 10 years. Luckily, I never had to do games with him because I was a sports center host. You know, I was one of the elite. |
| 1:43.6 | So I didn't have to be out there on the road. |
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