Tuesday's BEST BETS: First Four Picks + NBA + NHL + Champions League
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It's Talkback Tuesday! Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Jeff Hochman, Chip Patterson, and Propstarz as they answer YOUR questions and give out their plays for tonight's play-in games, NBA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:56) Buckets' Champions League Bets
(8:33) Propstarz NBA Prop
(11:00) Free Sportsline NIT, WBC Picks
(14:18) Jeff's NHL Bet
(20:33) Buckets' BONUS Champions League Plays
(23:31) Chip's Play-In Game Bet
(27:10) Bonus NBA, Soccer, NHL Bets
(29:10) NC State-Texas Picks
(34:44) Sia's Golf Pick
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, |
| 0:10.3 | Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:13.3 | We have another great show for you, lined up today. |
| 0:15.6 | Of course, this show is brought you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:19.8 | I see Mike McClure's already in the chat. He says, |
| 0:21.8 | Good morning, good morning. I hope we hear CSA, who's in the chat this morning so I can hear him say |
| 0:26.4 | Big Cheesy and Cleveland Clown always makes me laugh when I hear those names. Absolutely love it. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, I mean, you know, this is what this is what law school ended up paying for, folks. |
| 0:38.1 | Let's see if we paid for a winning recap screen. |
| 0:41.5 | Nice bounce back. |
| 0:42.4 | We go four and two. |
| 0:43.6 | Mikey B. |
| 0:44.3 | Just on a roll. |
| 0:45.8 | Two for two again. |
| 0:47.0 | Mike McClure hits his first period under pick and the sports line pick comes in. |
| 0:51.0 | That one, courtesy of AMags at plus 145 145 yeah we'll take four and two every single day |
| 0:57.6 | and ladies and gentlemen we'll take this crew every single day we've got a really nice crew here |
| 1:03.2 | we got buckets in glasses we got chip patterson we got prop stars we got jeff hock so much to talk |
| 1:10.5 | about buckets i'm going to go to you first. What's with the glasses? What chips here? Don't you go to chip first? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. We have discussed this. Chip me ups are sacred for Friday. I am very happy to be here and bring energy to the day. But come on, man. You know, this. Nope B. Y, O.J kind of game, man. You've got to bring your own juice. Come on, I. Y, OJ, bring your road juice. Come on, I need it, Bucketts. It's a Champions League day. Let's go. That's all I got. |
| 1:45.0 | That's good stuff. We got a little bit of a chip me up just on that response. |
| 1:49.9 | Prop stars, how you doing today, buddy? |
| 1:51.4 | Morning. I am doing well. Nice looking NBA slate today. And happy to be here with you guys. |
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