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Episode 211: Denny and The Hammer

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

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- 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 208: POLARIZING Sports Figures? WE got ‘EM!!

Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- “How to be Miserable on $39 Million a Year.” If that’s not the title of JAMES HARDEN’s book someday, it SHOULD be!
- The NBA’s chief malcontent engineers his own trade. Now he gets to play with K.D. AND the NBA’s chief knucklehead.
- So many games canceled, so many Draconian new rules leave one NBA player asking, “Why even bother?”
- COVID comes to Michigan sports as the Pistons miss out on another loss and MSU misses out on a likely butt-kicking!
- “Butt-kicking?” Is there a term that goes beyond that? If so, you’d use it to describe the U of M’s ROUT of Wisconsin.
- College football: The boys offer some thoughts on Monday night’s national title game in our first show since then.
- Get ready to clean up because Denny’s gonna make his NFL playoff predictions. YOU’LL bet the other way, of course!
- URBAN MEYER leaving his cushy broadcast gig and moving to the NFL? Bob has only one question: WHY?!
- The Wings finally have a formal team leader, yet ESPN says the more things change, the more they …
- A BIG change for former Red Wings coach MIKE BABCOCK, but can this career shift possibly end well for him?
- And on a show that NEVER pulls any punches, why should WE change now on GIBBY or on FRANK BECKMANN?
- Those stories, Bob with perhaps the strangest story in Detroit Tigers history, YOUR mailbag and more right here!
Episode 206: That’s DOCTOR Billy Taylor to YOU!

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- “Get Back Up!” The title of a book by BILLY TAYLOR and, boy, did he ever! The great U-M running back is our guest.
- For ONCE — and hopefully the last time ever needed here — the boys DO do politics on the show.
- The NFL Playoffs kick off this weekend. Our producer Brandon McAfee has a bold prediction for you!
- Meanwhile, Tom Brady had a bold — and stupid — challenge from one of the league’s top young stars.
- Did the Eagles actually tank that game against Washington Sunday? One thing’s sure: their players did not.
- Michigan basketball is ROLLIN’ and fun to watch — so what a bad time to have to SIT thanks to COVID.
- Of COURSE MSU alum Bob loves our former guest, Tom Izzo — but he still drives Bob nuts at times.
- Is there potentially big news for Michigan State football? MAYBE.
- The late, great Detroit sportscaster Al Ackerman was right: Detroit’s NBA team is indeed “The PP’s.”
- The Tigers have landed free agent Robbie Grossman! FYI: he is NOT Jewish. FYI: he is NOT the answer.
- And, desperate for revenue, can the Wings and the NHL be blamed much for what they’re about to do?
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 185: Role Model for Girls? Role Model for ALL!

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!

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 174: Doug English: a True LION on the Field

One of the league’s true warriors.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- He didn’t win a Super Bowl. No Detroit Lion ever has (or will?), but guest DOUG ENGLISH remains one of the most popular players in team history.
- It’s opening week in the NFL. Coaches upset over no fans at their home games, the threat of BLM and National Anthem protests. What a kerfuffle already!
- Oh, and Bob wonders what the league will do if/WHEN a player tests positive for COVID-19. Would they panic and cancel a game on a Sunday morning?!
- Few teams have the long tradition of the Detroit Tigers. So when they set a new low for futility at Milwaukee THAT was really saying something!
- Now what to do with struggling Matthew Boyd? Denny: TRADE HIM. But why wouldn’t the Tigers call Denny — or Lolich or Tanana — to at least pick their brains?
- Eli says the quality of the NBA Playoffs has been stellar, but Bob is among the pissed-off millions who haven’t watched a single game yet.
- As if the NBA needed MORE controversy, the Stephen A. Smiths of the world cry (surprise!) “WHITE PRIVILEGE” over Steve Nash’s hiring.
- The NHL Playoffs have been excellent too — for those few outside Dallas and Las Vegas who find the Stars vs the Knights in summertime compelling.
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment — and much more right here!
Episode 171: “I BLEED Green and White!”

Lorenzo White…the former Spartan great.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Bo Jackson stole HIS Heisman! And so did Tim Brown! Ex-MSU superstar running back LORENZO WHITE is our guest!
- Eli starts the show by admitting he’s depressed these days with the world SO messed up. Bob: Join the club.
- The Tigers have found life again! They’re challenging for the playoffs. Denny is NOT impressed. Ditto with Casey Mize.
- Is there life still left in the old man? Miggy smacks his 2,000th career hit as a Tiger and is having FUN again!
- COVID-19 on the wane? The NBA now says it’s going to open its bubble to friends and family of the players.
- Dustin Johnson really impresses Denny and Eli despite falling in a playoff Sunday to a miraculous putt.
- One of the legends of college basketball has died. Bob’s not the only guy who had issues with John Thompson.
- Excuse me, WHAT was that amazing pitching line on Denny McLain again?! Even HE can’t believe it.
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment — and much more right here!
Episode 170: Oh, NO! The Grim Reaper COMETH!

Who was that man gone mad?!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- A “reluctant warrior?” You’d never have known it from watching STU GRIMSON fight! “The Grim Reaper” is our guest!
- Rioting across the country, violence, looting and SO many sports events canceled over a police shooting of a black man.
- Famous black sportswriter Jason Whitlock has had enough, though. He calls LeBron a “bigot;” claims he’s promoting racism!
- How to protest racial injustice, make a strong point — but do it in a much better way? Bob says check out the NHL.
- Casey Mize — so FAR? Meh. Denny has some advice for the Tigers’ rookie: you’ve got a fastball, kid. USE IT!
- In this bastardized MLB season the ALL-STAR BREAK is now upon us! Well, at least its the mid-way point of the schedule.
- Ex-MLB pitcher Lary Sorensen out of the University of Michigan tells Bob he too was “examined” by Dr. Robert Anderson.
- So ya thought a TEN-PART series on Jordan was waaayy too long? Denny’s got a role in a new 20-part series on Mantle!
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!