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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Wednesday's BEST BETS: Cotton Bowl Picks + NBA + CFB Parlays

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Sports, Football

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Mike McClure, and Danny Brasco, as they hand out their BEST BETS for the Cotton Bowl, NBA, Soccer, and MORE!


(0:00 Intro

(4:30) Buckets' EPL Picks

(7:22) Mike's CFB Donkey Parlay

(10:28) CFB Wednesday Picks

(14:05) Free Sportsline Bets (CFB, NBA, CBB)

(16:06) Sia's CFB Bet + NFL Week 18 Prop 

(19:15) Danny's NFL Saturday Teaser


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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone?

0:10.0

Happy New Year's Eve and welcome to the early age.

0:13.7

My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of cash.

0:17.0

And this show is brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary.

0:21.1

The chat already legendary Pogo picks in there, Ricardo Hernandez, Stephen Ruiz, Jay Long, Rick Funcannon.

0:27.6

Everyone, let's see how we did on the recap screen yesterday before we bring in the stars of the show.

0:32.9

Well, we go three and three, but tough luck you might have gotten your bet refunded, actually,

0:36.7

on the Tobias Harris over 13 and a half points. He had seven points in about five and a half minutes and then injured his hip. Pretty crazy stuff with that hip injury. That was definitely going to hit. This should be four and two, but it's not. It's three and three. Buckets goes one for two. Chip Patterson hits another college football bet. That's three out of his last four.

1:28.8

And the Cade Cunningham over from prop bet guy came in pretty easily. Let's see if we can get some more easy winners with the stars of the show. We've got such a good cast today. And we're going to have an amazing cast tomorrow, which I'll announce it a little bit. Prop stars are not able to make this show today. I know I tweeted that out, but we've got Mike McClure. We've got Buckets and we've got Danny Brascoe. And of course, Ben in the shadows. Let's hit the like button for Ben. Buckets, how are we feeling? So you went one for two yesterday. But in my opinion, a bit of controversy with the one you lost. It's soccer is such a painful sport to bet on.

1:32.8

We technically got lucky with the one we won and then we got unlucky with the one we missed.

1:38.2

I disagree heavily with the rule in soccer that a shot that hits the crossbar does not count as a shot on target.

1:40.4

It's just a personal opinion that I'm very, very aggressive on.

1:43.7

But yeah, Rogers played a good game. Probably should have had a goal in that game. We miss it out with a hit off the post. Just how it goes sometimes. All right. Danny Brasco, what are you sipping on? Is that black coffee? Do you put cream or milk? Well, what's going on there? Espresso, splash of whole milk, ice. I'm iced all day. I don't do hot coffee.

2:01.7

I just don't enjoy hot coffee.

2:03.2

It needs to be chilled in my gimmee all the dogs mugs. That's how I start the day. See it. Oh, that is that. Okay. I'm not going to object. I drink my espresso's hot. But Mike, that looks like the way you sip that. Sorry for the audio listeners, but if you're watching live, you can see what Mike's doing, Ed Brasco.

2:17.6

That looks like something that's hot.

2:19.8

It's hot.

2:20.7

It is... that sorry for the audio listeners but if you're watching live you can see what mike's doing and brasco that looks like something that's hot it's hot it is hot black coffee always nothing

2:24.4

else no sweeteners no crin nothing it's just straight black coffee which is probably the least

2:30.3

surprising thing ever to many viewers that have been around for, you know, the last

2:34.3

decade here at Sportsline. I don't have anything in my coffee. It's just hot black coffee.

2:40.6

I'm the same way. Hot black coffee for me, although it's usually just espresso for me,

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