Dick Allen
Episode 200: Tom Seabron: A Winner at U-M AND in LIFE!

I would never start off in life to be number two.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Lary Sorensen in for Eli.
- WOW, our 200th show! We thank YOU listeners and our sponsors for all your great support.
- “Student-athletes” in big-time college sports? They DO exist. Wait’ll you hear our guest, U-M football’s TOM SEABRON.
- Amazing that there will be NO Michigan-Ohio State game this year as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc.
- Yet Harbaugh’s U-M future — or lack of same — overshadowed “The Game.” Would he CHOOSE to leave as a failure?
- Could COVID stop the entire college basketball season? MSU-Virginia one of the latest big games called off.
- Will YOU get the vaccine as soon as it becomes available in the U.S.? The boys weigh in.
- Houston Rockets superstar James Harden now needs to pass SIX STRAIGHT COVID tests or the NBA won’t let him play!
- Harden seems somehow unhappy making $38 million a year. Denny and Lary, uh, made a little less in THEIR careers.
- Miami Heat star Tyler Herro isn’t worried about money, he’s worried teams are picking on him — cuz he’s WHITE!
- Some 90% of all college football head coaches are also white — is that FAIR in a game with a majority of black players?
- RIP Dick Allen. Denny STILL remembers MONSTER homers Allen hit off HIM! But should Dick be in the Hall of Fame?
- We’ve got those stories, Bob’s got YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 169: DEXTER BUSSEY in the Battle of His LIFE!

Typical Dexter Bussey: No complaints
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- One of the most popular Lions in memory, DEXTER BUSSEY, joins the boys on his career, unusual POST-career — AND his health!
- You’ll hear the voice of legendary sportscaster Bob Reynolds on Dex. WHAT? Never heard of BOB REYNOLDS?! It’s NOT all pretty.
- Not only did the Tigers actually win a GAME against Cleveland, they won the weekend series!
- Now what? Does Al Avila go for broke or does he start trading guys for more “prospects” – SUSPECTS – at the deadline?
- The PC Posse continues its takeover of sports, UNLESS, as Bob points out, you’re a black NBA player making a racist comment.
- And to think of Mike Milbury being “canceled” for a totally innocuous statement — whether YOU like him as a commentator or not.
- Resident golf mavens Eli and Denny go NUTS over what Dustin Johnson did last weekend! Does Koepka eat humble pie?
- Did they just hold one of the greatest events of the sports world in veritable secrecy?! Almost seems that way!
- Denny may not like it, but one NFL team now says there WILL be fans at ITS home games this year.
- Those stories, Eli with “This Day in Sports,” Bob with YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 164: The Amazing Baseball Odyssey of Jim Essian

Crisscrossing America for 17 years!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Just say “no” — to BO?! To ARA? To DUFFY?! How one of Detroit’s greatest all-around athletes, JIM ESSIAN, did it!
- The PGA Championship is underway! With NO fans — AND with Eli asking a good question about two top stars.
- While MLB is a mess, the NHL and NBA “bubbles” seem to be working. But hockey and basketball in AUGUST?
- And Bob sez, “C’mon, how much does ‘Black Lives Matter’ REALLY mean in the NHL?”
- Imagine! College football players to coaches: “Here’s a list of demands or we’re not playin’!” THIS is happening NOW.
- Why this CRAZY Big Ten schedule!? M v OSU in OCTOBER? Producers Brandon McAfee and Marc Fellhauer think THEY know.
- Kelly Stafford is furious at the NFL for Matt’s false-positive COVID test. Have OTHER testing mistakes been made?
- Is our P.C. society SO nuts that a coach can’t even QUOTE someone dropping an “N-Bomb?” Black players USE it!
- We MUST support local journalism in our free country. But Bob wonders how much we’re willing to PAY to do so.
- Those stories, “This Day in Sports,” a tribute to Denny in YOUR Mailbag — and much more right here!
Episode 150: The TWO Comebacks of Ratso!

You’re going to do what’s called upon you.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Average pitcher. Heart attack at age 27! Then lights-out reliever — ex-Tigers star JOHN HILLER’s got GREAT stories!
- Eli says Colin Kaepernick has gone from kryptonite to Man of the Year! NFL owners only wanna know if he can still PLAY.
- With no fans allowed, the PGA Colonial had its best TV ratings in 16 years. But were folks THAT interested — or just BORED?
- We run down some of the NBA’s RIDICULOUS COVID-19 rules for resuming its season in a bubble.
- And if THAT’s not comedy enough for you, Kyrie Irving wants to start his own competing PLAYER-owned league.
- MLB players/owners continue to make a mockery of what Denny claims IS “our national pastime.” He gets big pushback on THAT!
- And now the two GREEDY sides may at some point institute soccer-like advertising on uniforms?!
- The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown will finally be run Saturday. Denny has a hot tip! Bob: CAVEAT EMPTOR!
- Meanwhile, the insanity continues in society. Statues are coming down or vandalized from BOTH political sides.
- Long-time MLB hurler Lary Sorensen writes us in YOUR Mailbag about ONE HOFer he used to EAT UP. (Hint: believe it or not, it was our most recent guest!).
- Those stories and much more right here!
Episode 144: From the Ol’ Farm — to Scoring a Super Bowl TD!

The only Lion of that era to win a Super Bowl!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Our guest is the bruising fullback, TOM NOWATZKE, on his 1960’s Lions, Colts teammate Johnny U and MUCH MORE!
- While pro sports leagues FIGHT during negotiations on when and how to start playing again, Eli and Bob repeat: go away til 2021.
- No sports? No games to gamble on, no casinos to gamble IN! One way or another the city of Detroit may pay an awful price.
- No football? Not only does Dolphins owner Stephen Ross say we WILL have an NFL season but he has unusual plans for his stadium.
- Bob asks why Jim Harbaugh seemed so thrilled to recruit only a good, not great, player this week. Is it THAT bad in Ann Arbor now?
- VERY different opinions among the boys over golf and last Sunday’s “The Match.” If you watched it, you were NOT alone.
- The Michigan House has passed a bill allowing college athletes to make extra money on the side — and Eli’s apoplectic!
- From Denny: the legendary overseas boxing match he actually went to! And does his ex-catcher Jim Price really HATE him?!
- The latter question comes from YOUR mailbag segment. We’ll have that and many other top stories right here!
Episode 110: He Played in SIX Super Bowls?!

If it has to do with X’s and O’s, I know it all!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- It’s Super Bowl time, gang. Detroiter Mike Lodish played in SIX of them! He joins the boys to discuss his life in football.
- Richard Sherman wanted nothing to do with the FL’S and their money. Now the 49ers star is IN the Super Bowl.
- Predictions? Denny and Eli disagree. Our Brandon McAfee even picks the SB score! Bob either has no guts or is just SMART.
- The Kobe Bryant death has exploded almost beyond belief, surprising Eli and Denny. Bob tells WHY the story’s so big.
- Neon Deion has some harsh words for the MLB and NFL Halls of Fame — and he’s RIGHT.
- Spencer Dinwiddie? Just another guy dealt away for nothing who returns to haunt the Pathetic Pistons.
- HOW much jewelry did Airhead Allen have in the hotel room where it was stolen? WHAT?! Eli on crazy times with A.I.
- Denny continues to dump on Michigan basketball! Bob wonders if Denny really knows what’s going on.
- ANOTHER bonehead decision by the Empty Suits who run TV sports!
- And ANOTHER “Thank you, Marvin Miller” story, plus YOUR mailbag as well as much more right here