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Episode 189: From BO to — BODY PARTS?!

What did you sell to people?!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page and Fred Huemann filling in for Denny McLain!
- A tough day for a former MICHIGAN football star to join us, but ex-QB STEVE SMITH sucks it up and faces the music!
- Who’da BELIEVED what happened?! Not FRED, who sez he’s never experienced anything in his career like MSU’s upset!
- Days later it’s STILL big news: the Tigers hire A.J. Hinch! Bob already wonders how A.J. and Al Avila will get along.
- And was Hinch and the Astros’ sign-stealing really THAT big a deal in the wake of new charges against a famous MLB manager?
- HBO fan Eli hips us to a great new segment about baseball’s Negro Leagues on his favorite show, “Real Sports.”
- What (lame) excuse did one of baseball’s most legendary figures once give Bob for not allowing black players in?
- Wait til you hear how long it takes the boys to FINALLY get to the Lions! Do fans really care much about the Lions anymore?
- Quick now: name the five greatest people you’ve EVER known. Fred puts a member of the Lions’ next opponent on HIS list!
- Those stories, Eli has his “This Day in Sports History” and Bob has YOUR mailbag — 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 184: A Boyhood Baseball Card Come to LIFE!

He led the league in triples his rookie year!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- A trash-talking softball player — in his 80’S?! THAT is ex-Tiger JAKE WOOD who still thanks baseball every day for his life
- YOU’VE got nothing to do — right? So you’re obviously watching EIGHT HOURS of baseball every day — right?!
- All those impressive young pitchers in the MLB Playoffs? Fred’s upset! He says the Tigers’ kids are NOT in the same league.
- Meanwhile, still another new name’s in the hat to become Detroit’s latest manager. But how attractive really is the job?
- Bob finally gets some company on the show: Fred joins him in walking sports’ COVID-19 tightrope!
- Nick Saban is the latest big-name to fall victim — but HE’S ready to coach Bama versus Georgia Saturday night.
- Ex-MSU All-American Le’Veon Bell already banished by the Jets. Fred knows him well. What IS this guy’s problem?
- The Big (14) hasn’t even started its delayed football season, yet here come Tom Izzo, Juwan Howard and basketball!
- It’s The Clash of the Titans Sunday in Jacksonville and Denny has some surprising news about the FL’s.
- Yet it won’t be nearly as surprising as when he tells you the identity of his TRUE baseball idol.
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 183: What a Magical Time it Was!

You never wanted to miss a game!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- The Bird chirping for the Tigers and BRUCE KIMM behind the plate. Mark Fidrych’s personal catcher joins us!
- Kaline, Brock, Seaver, Gibson — and now two MORE baseball immortals are gone: Whitey Ford and Joe Morgan.
- LeBron says a championship is a championship — is still a championship. The boys say, “Not so fast!”
- Bob cites abysmal TV ratings for the NBA Finals and wonders if the league will ever be the same.
- Are you ready for some football — on TUESDAY nights too? Get used to it as COVID-19 postpones more games.
- Ya say if the Lions lose to a miserable Jaguars team Sunday you wanna fire Matt Patricia? Who’s taking his place?
- Stevie Y with another flurry of signings and the future looks bright! So Wings fans CLAIM, but will the honeymoon last?
- And Eli’s apoplectic over the LATEST cavalry charge by the mindless P.C. Posse.
- “I traded a WHITE CAPTAIN for you!” highlights “This Day in Sports,” plus YOUR mailbag and much more — right here.
- Eli has ‘”This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and 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 98: The Boys Put Lou Whitaker in a TALKATIVE Mood!

He hasn’t done any radio or TV interviews in a long time.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- Sweet Lou Whitaker joins us! On not being in the HOF: “THEY didn’t see me play every day, THEY don’t know!”
- The Ford family meets with Jeff Bezos on selling the FL’s and Eli’s scoop makes lotsa news! Ah, if only …
- Surprisingly, Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia will be back next year! Who’s running this FL circus anyway? Bob clues us in.
- We’ve ALL waited so long — and now the bowl season is here! YOU won’t wanna miss a thrilling moment (wink, wink).
- The Dead Wings just keep on losin’ — on AND off the ice as the Pistons simply LOSE.
- Cassius Winston bounces back to lead the Spartans while Michigan gets ready for — uh, WHOM?!
- A happy 85th to the great Al Kaline! Quick: what’s the first name that comes to mind when you hear “Detroit Tigers?”
- Excited about new Tigers catcher Austin Romine? Bob explains why you shouldn’t be.
- Drew Brees broke a big record in spectacular fashion. Eli sez Brady’s still the “GOAT.” Denny sez he ain’t!
- Those stories, the weekly mailbag and much more — right here
Episode 74: Wayne Fontes REALLY Opens Up About his Lions Years!

I’ve never burned a bridge.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- He’s rarely been back to Detroit and doesn’t do interviews — but he did with us! Ex-Lions coach Wayne Fontes has a LOT to say.
- The smackdown of Jim Harbaugh rages on — and won’t get any easier for him on THIS program!
- If ONLY Michigan had players like Michigan State’s Joe Bachie — whom they didn’t even recruit.
- But Bob wonders: what’s a good MSU story like Saturday’s win at Northwestern without still more controversy?
- The FL’s author a stunning victory at Philly! And now it’s on to the Super Bowl — right, you FL’s diehards?
- Denny goes to a Tigers’ game — and his wallet won’t be the same for weeks! A full accounting coming up.
- He RIPS Joe Madden, the manager of his own beloved Cubbies, yet somehow defends Derek Jeter’s woeful Marlins?!
- Now on a ROLL (or maybe just in a BAD mood?) Denny claims MIGGY is dogging it.
- The boys decry the continued abuse of Detroit, Eli now helping NFL fantasy players and the Cincinnati, uh, GREENS?
- Those stories and more right here.