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Episode 214: SB to Lions and Tigers, GARY MYERS has Ya Covered!

February 4, 2021 01:31:30

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

On Super Bowl weekend are any of YOU making bets the size of “Mattress Mack’s?” Let alone on the underdog?
GARY MYERS thinks Mack is gonna be right. The highly-respected NFL writer/broadcaster joins us from New York!
Jim Harbaugh and staff land another big recruiting class on national signing day — but with HIM, will it matter?
The Pistons get their (sudden) marching orders: turn that video OFF, boys, and get back to the hotel!
Tom Izzo and the Spartans are back home. Did a “moral victory” start to turn their fortunes around?
The Wings’ fortunes are in the dumper with NHL TV commentators now questioning their effort. Is The Blashill Watch on?
Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway: GUILTY til proven innocent? Bob asks, “whaddya EXPECT?”
Brandon is aghast that Baby Boomer Bob has no idea who “Stone Cold” Steve Austin is!
Baby Boomer Bob is equally aghast that his Gen Y partner has never heard of Haystacks Calhoun or Dick the Bruiser!
‘Scusin’ me, bloke, WHAT was the score a that bleedin’ football match agayne?!
Those stories, a Michigan-born HERO in our necrology, YOUR mailbag segment and much more — right here!

Episode 213: Not by TURGENEV, Our OWN “Fathers and Sons”

February 1, 2021 01:17:27

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!

“Write what you know:” the author’s mantra. And few know Detroit and its teams better than author TOM STANTON, our guest!
Matthew Stafford TRADED! You’d expect the feckless Detroit sports media to love the FLs’ Big Deal — and BOB to be a skeptic.
Can’t we please just play the damn game?! Still MORE Super Bowl hype all week for us. Are you Super BORED yet?
In a crazy sports year few things could be crazier than Tom Izzo not making the NCAA Tournament field.
Yet come to think of it, what could be crazier than MICHIGAN supplanting Tom’s MSU program so quickly?!
NCAA basketball is “modern-day slavery,” huh? It isn’t if the “slaves” would only take advantage of a FREE education.
The Wings’ LATEST skid is six games. Brandon McAfee says firing Jeff Blashill wouldn’t make a diff. Bob disagrees.
Yet maybe our young producer is right about this too since Bob seems to be coming around on Bonds and Clemens as HOFers.
Curt Schilling as well? Yes? Just think what this whacko might SAY standing on the podium at Cooperstown!
Denny was off today. Wonder what he’d say about the Brewers hiring an ex-GIRLS SOFTBALL PLAYER as a hitting coach?
Those stories, our necrology featuring a Detroit Tigers boyhood hero, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!

Episode 199: “I Came to Hate Joe Paterno!”

December 7, 2020 01:35:13

He really didn’t like me very much.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain & Bob Page.

One of Penn State’s greatest players, ex-Detroit Lions star KEITH DORNEY, talks about his FASCINATING life.
To paraphrase a famous song by The Clash, “Should he stay or should he go?” Harbaugh rumors are FLYING!
It’s Michigan-Ohio State week and Bob says WHAT? “BFD?!” If you’re on the U-M side, MANY feel the same way.
How DARE Denny’s beloved Chicago Bears blatantly rip off the Lions’ M.O.? Isn’t it copyrighted?
Who IS this guy, Darrell Bevell? And who IS actually running the FOOTBALL side of the franchise these days?
A famous football man says women don’t generally like or follow sports? Golly gee, shocking. So why apologize?
The Sarah Silliness just won’t go away — and neither will Eli in slamming it!
Not good enough to catch for the catcher-less Tigers — but good enough for one of MLB’s top teams?
Do we have a new feature on the show? Eli declares the Nets’ Kyrie Irving his inaugural “Idiot of the Week!”
On our “This Day in Sports” AND on this Pearl Harbor Day we recall an American sports star and hero of WWII.
Those stories, Bob with YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!

Episode 185: Role Model for Girls? Role Model for ALL!

October 19, 2020 01:29:14

She just happens to be a woman.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Wow, a WOMAN guest — our first one ever! And what better choice than hockey trailblazer Manon Rhéaume?
All the sturm und drang, all the controversy over MLB’s COVID-bastardized season — yet justice is done anyway.
After seeing the talent level of the playoff teams, now it’s Eli’s turn to be angry with Al Avila and the Tigers.
Denny takes exception to the hot-dogging from some of the players. Bob doesn’t dig the fraternizing.
A win at Jax and now it’s on to the playoffs! Don’t SOME members of the media and Lions fans EVER learn?
“Who the hell was YALE LARY?” The uneducated young generation scoffs. Bob gives ’em a MUCH-needed lesson.
And Eli gives the young an important black history lesson in his “This Day in Sports.”
Big Ten(14) football is BACK! Could lowly Rutgers destroy Mel Tucker’s MSU debut? What if Harbaugh loses at Minnesota?
Take a bow mid-Michigan! Two of your native sons brought us Sunday night’s thrilling Game 7.
And from Michigan’s Thumb comes news of the retirement of one of broadcasting’s all-time greats.
Those stories, Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and WE’VE got much more right here!

Episode 176: D Mac: Amazing Story, GREAT Interview!

September 17, 2020 01:43:02

I bleed red and white.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Denny McLain, Bob Page and Fred Heumann!

“The game’s too fast. I don’t think I could’ve played now.” One of the most popular players in Wings’ history, guest DARREN McCARTY, has a LOT to say with us!
Guest HOST Fred Heumann has covered The Big Ten(14) for many years so HE has a lot to say about conference football suddenly — huh? — being back ON now?
Michigan QB Dylan McCaffrey is just the latest college player to opt out of the season. But the boys agree: this AIN’T about COVID-19.
With a near-certain loss at Green Bay Sunday, Bob takes a peek at the FLs’ schedule and MAY yet get Denny to flip-flop on a coaching change.
Yep, Mr. Heumann should fit right in with THIS show. Wait’ll you hear him utterly DESTROY Matt Patricia!
So, are we watching football games on TV — or oh-so-hot young women hosting a fashion show?! Shame on gals like Maria Taylor? No. Shame on The Empty Suits.
Eek! Oh, NO! It’s (gulp) those big bullies, the Cleveland Indians, licking their chops over the Tigers series this weekend — but all is NOT lost for the future.
Ever researched why those famous figures are on the front of “Sgt Peppers?” How about also researching why DIFFERENT famous figures are now “seated” at Comerica?
Bob gets us up to speed on the NBA and NHL playoffs. Denny responds to him, “Who cares?! NOBODY’S gonna watch!”
The U.S. Open is underway — right after the U.S. Open just ENDED Sunday! This time it’s GOLF. Denny, ahem, claims to have nearly tamed fabled Winged Foot.
With Eli off, we’ll save his “This Day in Sports” for Monday’s show, but Bob’s got YOUR mailbag and WE’VE got much more — right here.

Episode 118: Haters Hate Mike Eruzione Now? WHY?

February 27, 2020 1:26:34

You can’t believe the calls I’ve had.

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Team captain MIKE ERUZIONE joins us on the 40th anniversary of “The Miracle on Ice,” on the new MAGA controversy and more!
Trevor Bauer tells HBO “Real Sports” WHAT? MLB pitchers are using PINE TAR on balls? Make Denny and Bob LAUGH!
Tigers pitcher Alex Wilson has a bad case of the “Tim Tebow Blues.” The boys scoff at THAT too.
The Astros are feeling the heat for their sign-stealing scandal — literally. Pitchers ARE hitting them now, but on purpose?
And what Tigers legend was responsible for a different sign-stealing scandal 60 years ago?
Eli tells us the comical story of Deontay Wilder and the REAL reason he just lost that big fight (yeah, RIGHT!).
The Spartans stage an impressive second-half comeback to beat Iowa as Izzo is chastened by one of his players.
A nice gesture by Juwan in hiring one U-M staffer who may be the best Michigan HS player you’ve likely never heard of.
Mercy, mercy me! Detroit-Mercy losing ON the court AND off now. But does anybody really care about the Titans anymore?
Stevie Y FINALLY lets us all in on The Plan. To celebrate, Denny heads to a HOCKEY GAME(?) with sponsor Luke Nowacki.
Eli salutes a great champion in retiring Maria Sharapova, PED scandal and all.
Free agency in big-time college sports is coming soon. Bob explains what a wild story THIS is gonna be!
And in the Mailbag segment, you DON’T “Knock the Rock. It’s all right here.

Episode 84: One of the Greatest Detroit Sports Stars EVER “Stars” with US!

October 28, 2019 01:29:22

And now…an author!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, Bob Page and special guest, Marc Fellhauer.

“The Perfect Human,” Nicklas Lidström himself, joins the boys to discuss his life and his amazing twenty years with the Detroit Red Wings!
Eli’s on a brief vacation but phones in — and, boy, is HE unhappy with Denny DESTROYING Max Scherzer!
In studio for Eli — and with hormones still raging at HIS age — Marc Fellhauer, whose interest in the Series Sunday was based on FOUR BIG things!
The always-awful FL’s manage a home victory over the now-awful New York Giants. The boys yawn, “BFD.”
What a SMACK DOWN Michigan laid on Notre Dame! Does this keep the heat off Harbaugh — for now?
Is the proverbial handwriting on the wall for Mark Dantonio? Bob gets a mass email and sez FOOTBALL remains the least of MSU’s problems.
TV is now playing a big role in the continuing explosion of sports gambling. But is this something it SHOULD be doing?
No matter what you read, the Wings lost an EIGHTH straight Sunday! Could Jeff Blashill be on his way out already?
Those stories, Fox’s awful coverage of the W.S., YOUR opinions on our weekly mailbag segment and much more right here!