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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 196: From Motown to NATIONAL NFL Expert!

A Pro Football Hall of Fame writer!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain & Bob Page!
- COVID even postponing the SUPER BOWL? Maybe, says one of America’s top NFL writers, guest RICK GOSSELIN.
- (yawn) Another Thanksgiving, another TURKEY from the Lions. Even Sheila Hamp Ford looked bored to tears!
- Ford Field may have been empty but the Dallas Cowboys did allow fans for their game later. Why’s that?
- What’s more, how do the woeful Lions and suddenly woeful Cowboys keep being awarded such a big showcase?
- Eli a RACIST?! If so, you’d better add Bob and Denny to that list over the boys’ agreement on an overblown NFL event.
- COVID SO ravaging sports now that one prominent SEC team has been driven to TOTAL desperation this weekend.
- And the biggest story now that college BASKETBALL is underway is already which teams AREN’T playing.
- Wins for both U-M and MSU to kick off the schedule but Bob’s much more impressed with #1 Gonzaga.
- If COVID can’t do it, here’s an event that SHOULD be canceled: Saturday night’s Tyson-Jones “pillow fight!”
- The WORLD may mourn Maradona but our AMERICAN boys mourn Paul Hornung with LOTSA good yarns!
- Those stories, Eli’s “This Day in Sports,” Bob with YOUR mailbag and much more right here.
Episode 182: Baseball Wacko? Listen to THIS Show!

How many games in a row can you possibly watch?!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Eli!
- Two ex-MLB pitchers on one show? You won’t wanna miss Denny and Lary tell great stories, talk about the playoffs and more!
- Oh, and BTW, boys, after watching that GARGANTUAN Giancarlo Stanton homer, what was the longest home run YOU ever gave up?
- As the Tigers wait to find a new manager, Bob wonders if they’ve waited too long already to land the best candidates.
- The Lions will definitely NOT lose Sunday. They’re OFF, so get outta the house as the first step to kicking YOUR FL’s addiction!
- The Titans get back ANOTHER positive test for COVID-19, but Lary says the NFL STILL did the right thing in playing the season.
- Bill O’Brien FIRED after leading (now 0-4) Houston to FOUR division titles in six years. Why not the same boldness from the LIONS?
- With the NBA Finals possibly ending Friday, the boys look at the anatomy of WINNERS — versus LOSERS like the Pistons.
- Steve Yzerman and the Wings selected a teenage Swede at the top of the NHL Draft Tuesday night. In Stevie Y we TRUST — so far.
- Pro sports is a TOUGH biz indeed. Earlier in the day, Yzerman also had to make a big decision on a popular ex-MSU star.
- Those stories, Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and much more coming up right here.
Episode 159: Dombro’s NEWEST MLB Challenge

Nashville!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- What REALLY happened to DAVE DOMBROWSKI with the Tigers AND the Sawx? The long-time top MLB exec joins us!
- Canada just says “NO” — to the U.S.! But if the Blue Jays can’t play at home does it matter — with no fans at games anyway?
- What are MLB games like now without spectators? Bob reports on his Yankees-Mets experience of the weekend.
- And the PGA Tour experience with no gallery? Eli says he loves golf so much it’s STILL good. Denny and Bob disagree.
- Now, boys, BEHAVE!!! ANOTHER COVID-19 melee breaks out — but don’t worry, folks. We kept it short.
- Ditto the latest from the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Eli suggests what they SHOULD have named it.
- No young black man’s gonna “snitch” on other young black men murdering black men, yet the NBA now has a “snitch line!”
- Is the NFL REALLY going to play its violent, contact sport in the new NO-contact world of today?
- What about college football? Even MORE, what about all the workers who make their livings from football games?
- “HETEROsexual discrimination?” One of hockey’s biggest names is claiming just that in a new lawsuit!
- Those stories, “This Day in Sports” PLUS “This Day in NO FILTER SPORTS(?)” in YOUR mailbag — and much more!
Episode 157: Kenny Holland Looks Back and AHEAD!

I live in the business.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- How the HELL does a guy who oversaw THREE Cup champs become so controversial? We’ll ask guest KEN HOLLAND!
- We don’t know what they WILL be yet, but the Washington “Redskins” are no more. Overreaction or about time?
- Now if only they had a league to play in! One NFL player rep warns, “We do NOT have a deal.”
- The Big 13 + Rutgers won’t play ANY non-conference football games this season. Bob explains why he doesn’t like it.
- College basketball? The intra-Michigan WAR is ON between Tom Izzo and Juwan Howard — and it’s fun to see!
- WHAT did you say, Eli? S.I. has a transgender swimsuit model?! Three old men try to wrap their heads around THAT!
- WHAT did you say, Eli? The degenerates actually bet on — HUH?! And WHERE?!
- Former No Filter guest John Smoltz talks big, then bets on HIMSELF. How did it work out for him?
- Bob eulogizes one of his boyhood Tigers heroes while Denny tells tales of another great Tiger from Alabama.
- Those stories, this day in NO FILTER SPORTS PODCAST history(?!) in YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 149: The GREAT Rod Carew

No easy out.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Baseball Hall of Famer ROD CAREW joins the boys to talk about his amazing career, amazing new HEART & more!
- So Jim Nantz began Saturday’s PGA telecast with a tribute to George Floyd? Bob asks where the Tour’s BEEN all these years!
- Is Rob Manfred going to save MLB’s season by FORCING the players and owners to (finally) get started?
- The NBA has a plan to come back, but Kyrie Irving says it SHOULDN’T until “Black Lives Matter” is accomplished!
- No word from the NHL on its restart as one star coach asks how an NFL comeback’s possible with “social distancing.”
- What if Gibby’s World Series homers had been played in EMPTY STADIUMS?! Eli on board with Bob: there MUST be fans!
- ESPN’s doc on the steroid-laden 1998 home-run race premieres. Why are McGuire & Bonds welcome in MLB but not Sosa?
- Mr. Z always has terrific stories about Allen Iverson who just turned 45. You won’t believe what happens when he turns 55!
- What happened 55 YEARS ago? Denny: ROD CAREW broke in? Uh, NO, Denny! He finally got the answer.
- Those stories, YOUR Mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 102: Wanna BET, big shot? Then Hear THIS!

This will transform the gaming industry in Michigan.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- Noted sports gambling attorney, Dan Wallach, is on the show to talk about LEGAL sports gambling for YOU.
- Another humiliation for Jim Harbaugh in another big game. Is HE the problem with U-M football?
- Eli and Denny do you a solid by picking the weekend’s NFL playoff winners. Go bet against ’em and clean up!
- What, was Denny STONED today?! He took one of Eli’s “special” pills and may have just started a, uh, HIPPER life!
- Coaches come and coaches go. Nevertheless, the FLs’ image took an even further beating after their latest firings.
- Two major sports deaths this week. The boys discuss the life and times of both David Stern and Don Larson.
- Is the Tigers’ top pitcher, Matthew Boyd, on his way out of Detroit? SHOULD he be?
- Bob updates us on that U-D “showdown” at Gonzaga. The Zags finished as 33.5 point favorites! Did you bet it?
- Meantime, it’s Michigan at Michigan State Sunday as Bob wonders whether Juwan will soon overtake Izzo
- Those stories, the Wings, Pistons, the Mailbag and much more right here.