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Episode 207: INSIDE the Jim Harbaugh Deal

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- As Ohio State and Alabama go at it for the national title, WE look into a local college football story:
- The Jim Harbaugh contract extension. U-M reporter/podcaster Michael Spath takes us behind the scenes!
- A big football gambler? Or just nothing better to do during the pandemic? You REALLY watched ALL those playoff games?
- If the former Cleveland Clowns can get to the NFL post-season, can the LIONS be far behind?
- Bob provides a primer on how NOT to run an NFL team via a franchise even worse than the FL’s!
- The Pistons are off to a brutal start, but Tom Gores worry? He’s about to make more billions on PAY TOILETS!
- Yes, we all were outraged over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, yet the NBA’s chief KNUCKLEHEAD is taking it too far.
- And speaking of “knuckleheads,” how about James Harden and what one NBA all-time great said about HIM?
- It’s a Big Week in the Big 14! At least for Michigan and Michigan State. The boys sing Juwan’s praises.
- Tigers fans say “good riddance” to two guys who’ve tormented them in recent years.
- While Denny says good-bye to Tommy LaSorda AND comments on MLB’s new pitching scandal.
- Those stories, the Red Wings are BACK, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 205: Bear Bryant’s Last Captain: Steve Mott

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and that’s IT!
- A new era for the show begins after Eli’s self-imposed “retirement.” WE hope he comes back to us.
- Meantime, ex-Lions center STEVE MOTT, one of the great players in Alabama history, joins us on THE Big Game and more.
- FREE BEER? This is what Lions fans are left with after ANOTHER disastrous year?! The FL’s are even messing THIS up!
- Is Matthew Stafford coming back? Who’s the new GM? The LATEST head coach? So MANY questions.
- And who speaks for YOU? A famous voice from Texas, through remarks intended for a different team.
- They’re partying in Columbus and the Bama game hasn’t even been played. WHY? Jim Harbaugh’s staying at Michigan!
- No Eli? Producer Brandon McFee may be just as opinionated! He and Bob tangle over a big issue in college football.
- After destroying the fleabag Duke’s Mayo Bowl, somewhere Mr. Z is smiling. The game came to a fitting — and hysterical — climax!
- How good is U-M basketball! How good is U-M freshman Hunter Dickinson?! Bob says enjoy him while you can.
- Dave DeBusschere must be rolling over after a WUSSY move by his once-proud alma mater.
- Dumped by a phony girlfriend — then rejected by the Pistons too! But guess who’s getting the last laugh?
- Those stories, Denny remembers MLB’s seven HOFers we lost in 2020, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 198: Two-Sport Star — to Superstar COACH!

But we know him best as a running back for Bo.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Fred Heumann sitting in for Eli Zaret!
- One of the great athletes in Michigan high school history is now one of its great MENTORS: our guest, THOMAS WILCHER.
- OUTRAGEOUS! How DARE Herbie claim Harbaugh doesn’t want to play Ohio State! But, uh, DOES he? Really?
- A Wednesday afternoon NFL game? The boys agree: an abomination in damn near every sense.
- And now COVID-19 begins another reign of sports terror: the NBA says 48 players just got it!
- So you think nothing excites curmudgeonly Bob? Just ask him about Michigan State basketball this year.
- Denny’s excited about his beloved Bears’ “Polish kid” versus the Lions, then gets the word: Trubisky is NOT Polish.
- Dennis Dale McLain — JEWISH?! Oy, who knew?! He’s FULL of surprises today:
- Teddy Ballgame once said WHAT to him? Denny in a fistfight with a teammate in the Tigers’ locker room?
- A 27-year-old former World Series hero is on the open market “CHEAP.” Should the Tigers grab him?
- Fred knows whom HE wants to see the Tigers sign. Bob AND Denny: “Fuhgettaboutit!”
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more — right here!
Episode 180: What’s WRONG with U-M Football? BUTCH Has an Idea!

They need to go with a more athletic quarterback.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Denny!
- Ya better be TOUGH to play for Bo AND Parcells! BUTCH WOOLFOLK was — and DID! The ex-Michigan star running back is our guest.
- The MLB Playoffs had more games Wednesday than the entire post-season of many past years! And WHAT time did that Yankees game end?
- Modern technology is changing baseball even further. Lary tells us about pitchLogic and Bob has more on the umpires versus the computers.
- Is the pandemic slowly starting to wane? MLB announces that there WILL be fans at some upcoming games.
- “I can not BELIEVE that jerk dropped the ball!!!” Yep, it sure is easy watching games from the couch. Lary calls us all OUT on that.
- Was Denny RIGHT on our last show? Could The NBA Finals indeed be a four-game sweep for the Lakers over Miami.
- Eli has some strong words for the possible upcoming McGregor/Pacquiao fight.
- And so the stage is set for still another Detroit Lions collapse — just when some fans (who don’t know any better!) are getting excited.
- Mr. Z also has “This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and we’ve got much MORE right here!
Episode 120: A CANDID Tim McCormick Opens Up!

My real passion is broadcasting
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- Fed up with his LATEST sideline temper tantrum, MSU grad Bob rips Izzo a new one! Eli and Denny rip Bob right back.
- Does every big college basketball team cheat? Eli and Denny actually believe that. Bob calls “B— s—!”
- U-M’s OWN sex abuse scandal is growing larger — but c’mon, man! Can you actually compare it to MSU’s?
- One of MLB’s top pitchers MIGHT be done at 30. Denny can relate — and says Chris Sale has nobody but himself to blame.
- Are big league baseballs still messed up? Will Jacoby Jones EVER gain the stardom many predicted for him?
- The Pistons coulda had Caris LeVert! Eli takes us through MANY bad decisions from the Pathetic Pistons’ recent past.
- Legal sports gambling IS coming to Michigan — but as early as NEXT WEEK? One reporter claims it’s true.
- Knicks Nut Spike Lee is feuding with Madison Square Garden boss, James Dolan. Bob knows something about THIS!
- Those stories, YOUR weekly mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 115: Denny Deals — to KALINE and FREEHAN!

I had a lot a fun pitching against those guys.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- More on MSU’s Mel Mess! DENVER POST COLUMNIST SEAN KEELER joins the boys to discuss some hard feelings out west.
- Two other top stories rage on as well: the Astros’ sign-stealing and Kobe’s tragic death.
- MSU basketball’s problems continue and now Eli wonders how a certain Spartan star makes money for his young family.
- He’s RICH, one HELLUVA college basketball coach and a really good guy. So why are many feeling sorry for John Beilein?
- Michigan roundball’s going well again — but how ’bout them Wolverines on the DIAMOND!
- Baseball’s Tony Fernandez is dead at 57. What a career he had, as older Tigers fans certainly remember.
- Denny’s memory is indeed clear! Bob confirms his tales of trouble with Boog Powell. Whom did Denny OWN?
- Minor League baseball players got a raise. Eli and Denny debate whether the bump is enough.
- Bob calls out Jeff Blashill and the Wings — AGAIN. Simply put: no guts, no glory.
- In YOUR Mailbag, producer Brandon McAfee is a HERO. He MUST be for putting up with US! Those stories and more right here
Episode 111: Winners and Losers From the SB? WE Start With Denny!

Nice weekend Denny!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- WHAT?! Denny didn’t watch the Super Bowl?! Well, at least he LISTENED to it — so he joins our big wrap-up anyway.
- And what SB wrap-up would be complete without discussing the commercials AND the PG-13 halftime show?
- The Pro Football HOF announced its five new members over the weekend. What about the guys who did NOT make it?
- And here Bob was relieved because football was FINALLY over? Denny and Eli say, “guess again!”
- Michigan State basketball goes down to an average team it should have beaten. Was ONE player responsible?
- Michigan gets an important win WITH Zavier back. Why was he suspended? Don’t ask the feckless Detroit sports media.
- So you’re unhappy playing for Juwan? Why not jump to Izzo instead — and be in the lineup the very next season?!
- The Pathetic Pistons pissing off their own coach now — and let’s be real about Sunday’s win over Denver.
- Ex-Tiger fan-favorite/great-guy Curtis Granderson calls it a career — probably two years too late.
- And how would another ex-Tiger fan favorite have fared in the current era of baseball? Don’t make Denny laugh!
- THAT story’s in YOUR Mailbag segment, PLUS criticism of our Kobe coverage and much more right here.
Episode 107: The SB, MLB Scandal and Earl Cureton on Roundball

It’s Just About A Pick’em.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- He was a teammate of some of the great players in NBA history! Detroiter Earl Cureton is with us today.
- EVERYBODY is looking forward to THIS one! The Chiefs versus the Niners in the Super Bowl.
- Eli tells us Netflix has a new doc out on the tragic life of Aaron Hernandez — and a wild story it is!
- The Astros’ pitch/sign-stealing scandal rages on. How do YOU and others feel about it? ESPN has an answer.
- Hand the boys a napkin: They need to wipe the EGG of their faces about Sparky and some of his ex-players.
- Wither the maybe-NOT-so-pathetic Pistons? Bob says things might be looking up — and SIGN Drummond. Eli: NO!
- Why haven’t the WINGS signed Gerard Gallant yet as the disaster rolls on unmitigated?
- Eli recaps the UFC McGregor/Cowboy bout. DENNY for “Sports Person of the Year”? Someone in the mailbag thinks so!
- And Detroit pro teams are bad. Uh, HOW bad ARE they? Those stories and much more right here!
Episode 99: Ray Scott: I Could NEVER Coach in Today’s NBA!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- The NBA a “BUSH LEAGUE?!” It sure WAS and a man who lived the era, ex-Piston Ray Scott, joins us to talk about it all.
- Yep, the FL’s lost again, but now FL’s ADDICTS are EXCITED about a high draft pick! Bob sez they’ll just blow it anyway.
- What is the best football broadcast team YOU’VE ever heard? We’ll tell you about OUR pick.
- Would Urban Meyer really coach the Cowboys? Simple question/answer? NO, as Eli and Denny gang up on Bob AGAIN!
- Denny and Bob even duke it out on baseball’s new computer umpiring. Mr. McLain seems to be singing a new tune.
- The Tigers have a couple new free-agent signees but the question persists: does Al Avila have a CLUE what he’s doing?
- Super-agent Scott Boras is now guaranteed a cool $50 million for this past MONTH! His CLIENTS signed for a BILLION!
- Trouble for Minor League Baseball? There’ll be trouble for ALL if MLB puts more than 40 MiLB teams out of business!
- If you’re a basketball fan you likely watch the NBA — but millions AREN’T. Would an in-season tourney aid TV ratings?
- Those stories, the Dead Wings with their “Coach for Life,” YOUR weekly mailbag and much more right here.