Wednesday's BEST BETS: First Four Picks + Champions League + NBA
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Happy Wednesday! Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Jeff Hochman, Mike McClure, Zack Cimini, and Brady Kannon as they give out their plays for tonight's play-in NCAA Tournament games, NBA, Champions League, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:48) Mike's Golf Pick + NCAA Tournament Parlay
(13:00) SMU-Miami (OH) Bets
(14:35) Buckets' Champions League Bet + Dice Roll
(20:01) Free Sportsline NBA Prop
(22:48) Jeff's NCAA Tournament Bet
(25:34) Brady's Golf Picks
(32:25) Sia's Golf Pick
(34:00) BONUS Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.5 | We are brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.1 | And the chat, always legendary. |
| 0:16.6 | We got Jeff Stenberg in here saying, I think Aaron Judge struck out again just now. Eric David says, good morning, early edge family. So does Joshua, Dave's Martin. Hello, everybody. Hello, Ian Lights out, M. Baller. I am Schoads. Let's take a look at the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. It's a losing day, two and five. Buckets goes one for two. Sportsline picks. Shout out EC, go one for two. But the rest of the crew takes an L. And I'll tell you what, it's time to bounce back from a bad recap screen. We've got a great cast, a little special appearance coming up in just a few minutes. MLB starts in seven days, James Rainwater. And I know Zach's going to be interested in that. I know Mike McClore and many others are going to be interested in that, including, of course, Matt Snyder and Amags. Jeff Hockman, Mike McCle, that's Emily, Brady-Canon. How you all doing, Jeff? I'm going to start with you quick. Note something that happened that you put in Discord that is actually NFL related? Yeah, really good news. |
| 1:13.9 | I put in March 5th, Jeremiah Love, top five, yes, it was plus 250 to plus 350, depending on the book. |
| 1:23.4 | Reports came out last night that Tennessee Titans are going to take him. |
| 1:33.3 | If the Tennessee Titans do not take him, he's not getting past the Giants at number five. |
| 1:40.2 | They haven't had a good running back since Saquan Barclay, and he was the last running back to be selected in the top five. |
| 1:51.0 | So I would check your book, everybody, after this show, maybe during the the show see if your book has a line on Jeremiah Love top five anything at even money I would pound because he's definitely going four to Tennessee or fifth to the Giants so that's another reason why to join sportsline sports Sportsline.com slash join, get in the Discord. |
| 2:04.1 | There's so much information in there, so many more winners that we can post in there that we can't post on the website. |
| 2:10.6 | Like when Mike McClure had his first period underbet in hockey, that's not available on Sportsline, but it is available at Discord. |
| 2:21.2 | And was available on the early edge yesterday at 10 o'clock. Brady Cannon, speaking to |
| 2:25.8 | Sportsline, they can find your golf articles on Sportsline. Are you here today with some golf picks? |
| 2:30.0 | I sure am, my friend. Great to be back as we wrap up the Florida swing with the Val Spar |
| 2:35.7 | Championship. But yeah, I got the early look up there yesterday evening, you know, one of my |
| 2:42.7 | outrights, who I'm looking to fade this week. And then we have just recently in the last |
| 2:47.3 | half hour or so populated the full card with our head-to-head matchups, |
| 2:51.7 | finish position, all that good stuff, and we'll go over a couple of those today. I've got a head-to-head matchup to give out for tomorrow morning as well for round one. I do want to point out that if you all have any questions, make sure you put them in the chat, because we got Mike McClure, Zach, Jeff, and Brady for that. Mike, real quick, you're here with golf, but you're also here with a bit of an NCAA March |
| 3:11.0 | Madness play. |
| 3:12.2 | Yeah, I'm going to have golf, March Madness. |
| 3:14.7 | We'll handle obviously any questions that pop up, but a golf play that I love and a market |
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