Wednesday's BEST BETS: College Basketball + NBA Picks + Arnold Palmer Props
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Get your Wednesday BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Buckets, Mike McClure, Jeff Hochman, and Brady Kannon, as they give out their plays for the NBA, College Basketball, PGA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:25) Buckets' Soccer Pick
(8:16) Jeff's College Basketball Pick
(11:20) Brady's Arnold Palmer Picks
(16:42) Free Sportsline NBA, CBB Picks
(20:35) Mike's CBB Bet and Arnold Palmer Picks
(26:25) Buckets' Bonus Soccer Bets and Dice Golf Pick
(33:20) Sia's Arnold Palmer Pick
(34:50) Brady's Arnold Palmer Prop
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.1 | A very happy Wednesday. |
| 0:13.6 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:15.1 | And of course, this show is brought to you by BedMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:19.5 | I see Liddy in the chat, Steve Volkertz, Darrenaryon, McCurio, Rick Funcannon in here, hit the like button if you could. Let's see if we like the recap screen. I think we do four in two. Tom Casale hits his pick. Jeff Hockman, one for two, buckets one for two, but really two for three, right? Because we hit the live play on the show. The sports line pick hits as well, courtesy of prop bet guy, another pick coming from him later on in the show. Mike McClure is already in the chat. He says, make it legendary. Let's bring on a legendary crew. Ladies and gentlemen, check this out. We've got Mike McClure. We've got Jeff Hockman. We've got the person |
| 0:56.0 | impersonating John Eimer. And we've got Brady Cannon. Brady, Canada is on the show. Brady, |
| 1:00.9 | how are you? And what do you have for us today? It's a pretty big golf weekend, correct? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, indeed. Great to be back here. See it with you and the rest of the crew. Thanks again for having me. Yeah, we come off of two signature events in the last three weeks. And now we go into yet another couple of signature events in a row on the PGA tour, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, of course, the Players Championship. And, you know, about what, four or five weeks away from that first major |
| 1:29.0 | of the year in augusta georgia so golf a pretty hot topic right now that's what will be |
| 1:33.9 | doling out hopefully some winners for the bay hill uh bay hill and lodge the venue for the arnold |
| 1:39.3 | palmer invitation and we've got porto rico as well and who knows maybe on this show we'll have |
| 1:43.9 | some live in joeberg open picks as well, and who knows, maybe on this show we'll have some live and Joburg open picks as well. Buckets, everybody wants to know, do you have the dice for the one and done? Brady, you might not be familiar with this, but we've got buckets in our splash sports one and done. And every Wednesday, he rolls the dice, and he and Mike McClure come up with a one and done pick. You do have the die, correct, buckets? |
| 2:03.6 | Oh, oh for one, buckets. |
| 2:06.1 | Oh for one. |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah, I got the die. |
| 2:08.3 | Rolling double zeros. |
| 2:09.9 | Hey, to be honest with you, I'm just impressed the dice hasn't been lost yet. |
| 2:13.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:14.1 | We're like, like, we get into this and he still has the original dice. |
| 2:17.7 | Or that Freya hasn't eaten it or something like that. So this is a good. We're good. We got the die. What's up? Kelo to Rockstar in the chat. What's up everyone? Hope everyone had a great start to the day. Well, hopefully you're starting your day with us and we're keeping it great. Thanks for being in here. Mike, speaking of golf, you do have a golf pick today, but also you're mixing it up. We have |
| 2:37.7 | college basketball as well. Got some college basketball, got two golf picks for the weekend as well. |
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