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Episode 211: Denny and The Hammer

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- Super Bowl LV is set: Tom Brady VERSUS — “the greatest quarterback ever?” At least according to Denny!
- Matthew Stafford is OUT as Lions quarterback. Good for MATT! But what now? Is SHEILA really gonna make the call?!
- Who better to comment on the death of the great HANK AARON than a former Braves teammate named DENNY McLAIN?
- But Denny reveals a shocker from that era when asked if he and Hank ever had a few pops together out on the town.
- Are the Wings dead — already?! They sure played dead in Chicago over the weekend.
- Sunday’s loss saw the debut of ex-coach Mike Babcock in-studio on NBC Sports. Bob rips NBC’s Empty Suits a new one!
- Sure was great to see the storied Wings-Black Hawks rivalry renew. Wait’ll ya hear THIS story about Stu vs. Probie!
- U-M basketball WAS rolling but now has to sit down for TWO WEEKS — a victim of its OWN administration.
- C.Y.A. (“Cover Your Ass”) may be a military term, but it sure looks like Jim Harbaugh is buying into it.
- The Tigers’ Al Avila keeps buying into his own, as Bob puts it, “Bum of the Month Club.”
- Mercy, mercy, ME — still another black eye for a once-proud athletic department which USED to be just “The U-D!”
- In YOUR mailbag segment, a listener turns the tables on Denny: “So, did YOU ‘ever think about coaching?'”
- Those stories, Brandon on The Big Fight, Mr. McLain back on the appearance circuit — and much more right here!
Episode 210: Never Fear — Our GAMES are Still Here!

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- We all agree: the world SUCKS right now, but at least we still have sports — AND its knuckleheads — to entertain us.
- What team gets a home game in the Super Bowl? None EVER! Tom Brady hopes to change that in the NFC title game.
- And another ex-Michigan star quarterback could also make headlines in Sunday’s AFC title tilt.
- Are you betting the games? You can now do that LEGALLY in Michigan starting Friday.
- The Lions unveil their LATEST five-year rebuilding program, so optimistic they gave their LATEST coach a SIX-year deal!
- Why do younger Lions fans also seem so optimistic about their sad-sack team? Brandon McAfee RANTS on that!
- SWEATING and SLOBBERING all over each other? The NBA’s okay with that — but handshakes? No WAY.
- Bob’s sweating out Friday, hoping COVID doesn’t cancel Michigan at Purdue. Like all of us, he needs something to do!
- Why are the Pistons so pathetic? ONE game tells part of the story: a guy they have and two guys they should have had.
- Is Tigers G.M. Al Avila signing all these bums just to irritate Denny? If so, he’s doing a great job of it!
- Is the Baseball Hall of Fame ready to put Clemens and/or Bonds in next week? Should they? Hear our spirited debate.
- All those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more coming up right here!
Episode 209: One TRUE BLUE Ohioan!

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- U-M star, Olympic gold medalist, first-round NBA draft choice — the long basketball life of guest PHIL HUBBARD!
- What a quarterback dual: Brady vs Brees! But as often happens with great pitching match-ups — a DUD.
- The boys recap the weekend’s NFL playoffs, look ahead to this Sunday’s title games AND to the Super Bowl.
- The WHAT Bowl? A foreign concept, of course, to the Lions — now embarking on their LATEST rebuilding program.
- Should they have hired Robert Saleh instead? Or Urban Meyer? Bet that if a mistake can be made, the FL’s will make it.
- A great goaltender? At times. A great Detroit Red Wing? Always! And now HOWIE hangs ’em up.
- Bob warned it might happen. Denny pooh-poohed him, but Michigan did indeed go down at Minnesota.
- Now will COVID allow U-M to play Maryland or MSU to play Illinois? Bob asks, no, BEGS, the Big 14 for just one thing.
- Denny rips his former team — again — for stubbornly sitting out free agency without a splash.
- And he rips baseball’s Hall of Fame for continuing to snub one of his greatest friends and Tiger teammates.
- Those stories, a top Detroit sportscaster skewered in YOUR mailbag segment and more — right here!