Tag: Joe Dumars | No Filter Sports

Episode 161: Best Guest We’ve EVER Had? YOU decide.

July 27, 2020 01:33:27

Some guests, you don’t know what to expect!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!

“No Filter?” Wait til you hear STAN EDWARDS on his career at U-M, on BO, son Braylon, the M sex scandal and MORE!!!
MLB’s Miami Marlins call off their opener with too many guys testing poz for COVID-19! Is this just the beginning?
Good weekend for the Tigers in Cincy. But it WAS just ONE weekend, despite the overreaction of announcers and reporters!
What did YOU think of the MLB games? Obviously BIZARRE — but did you enjoy watching them — IF you watched?
FIRST thing ya learn at umpire school? LAST guy to really know the rules of baseball is a PLAYER! Bob and Denny go at it.
JV is OUT for a period of time. In such a short season has this already doomed the Astros now with no Gerrit Cole either?
On vaca, Eli was NOT happy about our last show OR our guest. He challenges Denny and Bob on damn near everything!
Another embarrassment for Jim Harbaugh and Michigan football. How could they let THIS recruit get away?!
“The Washington Football Team?” “The Seattle KRAKEN?” What, indeed, is in a name?
This Day in Sports History, YOUR Mailbag, plus lots more right here!

Episode 155: Dead Milkmen? Tinfoil WHAT? Ask Scott Lusader!

July 6, 2020 01:25:33

He was a different cat, that’s for sure.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!

What a pair Jim Walewander and SCOTT LUSADER made as young Detroit Tigers! Scott joins us with HIS Baseball Journey.
Bryson DeChambeau bullied the Detroit Golf Club AND his fellow pros over the weekend. Will he change golf itself?
The Indians and Redskins are considering changing their names with the P.C. mob all over them. The boys take it on.
Now Florida’s “Gator Bait” cheer has been banned as “racist!” Seriously.
Yes, Black Lives DO Matter! But to whom? And now Bob’s predictions about white racists pushing back is coming true.
Are sports REALLY going to resume with so many MLB, NBA and NHL players dropping out over COVID fears?
“YAY! I’m the biggest, most disgusting SLOB in the entire world!” Did ya catch my act on ESPN?
Eli caught something else on the all-sports network: a concert by the Eagles! THIS is what sports programming’s come to?!
Mr. Z has This Day in Sports, Bob reports what YOU have to say in the mailbag segment and much more!
Oh, and be SURE to tune in next show too - tell all yer pals! - when MSU basketball coach TOM IZZO will be with us.

Episode 144: From the Ol’ Farm — to Scoring a Super Bowl TD!

May 28, 2020 01:32:00

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!

John Vanbiesbrouck's Florida Panther jersey

Episode 116: Leave It To — BEEZER!

February 20, 2020 1:37:06

That’s the way he rolls.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

One of the greatest hockey names in Michigan history, long-time NHL goalie John Vanbiesbrouck, is our guest!
There’s WHAT Saturday night? Eli laments that a World Heavyweight Boxing Championship is just not a big deal anymore.
U-M basketball comes up with an impressive and important win at Rutgers — without Isaiah Livers.
It’s official. Ex-Michigan coach John Beilein is out as head coach of the Cadaverliers. Eli’s seen THIS movie before.
Denny comes up with a GREAT suggestion on how MLB should punish the Astros!
Could Giancarlo Stanton really have hit 80 homers in 2017 if HE had cheated too? Denny says NO WAY! Bob says WAY! .
Aubrey Huff’s idiotic Tweets have cost him an invite to the reunion of the Giants’ 2010 World Series champions. But is it right?
And the hits just keep on comin’! STILL more trouble for MSU football and its former head coach Mark Dantonio.
Meanwhile, Michigan football now has its OWN scandal going on and Eli knew the creep who was responsible for it all.
NASCAR’s Ryan Newman almost DIES at Daytona, Alan Trammell COULD have in a snowmobile crash! Bob doesn’t get the “need for speed.”
What Piston just hit the NBA Lottery? That story, “Piggy” comes to YOUR mailbag and much more right here.

Episode 107: The SB, MLB Scandal and Earl Cureton on Roundball

January 20, 2020 01:20:43

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 65: God Bless America, Rudy! How on EARTH Did You Do It?!

August 22, 2019 01:23:32

Ok, he had perseverance and all that stuff…

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Eli RIPS Rudy Ruettiger (nicely) as the former Notre Dame walk-on joins us to to talk — what else? — Hollywood and ND Football.
Bad enough that JV somehow LOST to the Toothless Tigers, worse that he embarrassed himself afterwards.
They’re at it again! Ex-MLB stars with the same old, “Why, in MY day …” The MOST outspoken one will surprise you!
Uh, Denny, how did you give up so damn many home runs?!
Eli defends his use, and his many mentions here, of (gasp!) marijuana.
Bob asks what the hell WARP, +ERA, fWAR, rWAR, & DRA- are? He does NOT get an answer.
Eli asks whether NFL wideouts like AB, OBJ and many others are just naturally NUTS.
Those stories, more baseball and — HOW much to renovate a HOUSE? — right here!

Episode 49: Got replays? Then USE them! Got the K-Zone? Then USE it!

June 27, 2019 01:05:17

I wanted to see where that pitch was.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Michigan falls to Vandy in the CWS championship. Bob wonders if a REALLY bad break didn’t change the course of the game.
Eli rails on the lack of respect the pathetic Tigers are showing those few fans who still come to Comerica.
The news on some ex-Tigers Al Avila GAVE away? Not pleasant, nor is the progress of his top minor league prospects.
Why so many homers in MLB this year? Denny sez, “Why, in MY day …”
Kevin Durant, seriously injured, turns DOWN $31.5 mil! Bob spars with Eli and Denny over KD’s intentions.
Another embarrassment for Michigan State? Is Mark Dantonio recruiting too many bad kids?
Denny & Eli quizzed on MLB’s most overrated HOF players, Bob on — huh?- M.C. HAMMER?!
And much more right here

Composite photo of Steve Yzerman and Joe Dumars

Episode 48: Stanley Cup Savior- or Problematic Piston?

June 24, 2019 01:05:27

I could tell you stuff that stand your hair on end.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Moritz Seider?! “In Stevie Y We Trust.” But Bob pounds the table: you don’t draft him THERE!
Could Yzerman someday become the next Dumars? Eli tells tales of how Joe D managed himself right outta town.
“The Vulture” is back at 82! But if he teaches the Mets pitchers what he once taught Denny, he won’t be “back” for long!
The locker room of the frustrated Mets blows up! Why not the pathetic Tigers’ yet? Stay tuned.
Of course, WITH JV and JD the Tigers would be anything BUT “pathetic.” Verlander rolls on!
And Pujols gets a huge welcome in St. Louis, proving that there must indeed be “better living through chemistry.”
Those stories and much more right here!

Episode 31: HBO on LCA: Fair Reporting or a Hit Job?

April 25, 2019 00:57:24

It should not surprise anyone that these accusations are made.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

HBO’s “Real Sports” rocks Detroit and the Ilitch family — but was the reporting “fair and balanced?”
The NFL Draft is front and center! What major gaffes will the FL’s make THIS year?
The Tigers have swept a twinbill at Boston for the first time since 1965 — but Denny has a “senior moment” on his role back then.
Meanwhile, Bob puts Denny in his place for spreading an absurd rumor that’s years old on our last podcast.
The Drew and Mike Show discovers a bizarre website which has forced Michigan’s Jordan Poole to turn pro. Eli explains.
Controversy continues over concussions in the NHL and the NFL as the boys argue about fighting in hockey — from Probie to present.
Those stories, the NBA with its cast of TV bimbos and much more right here

Episode 29: The Boys’ Career Highs and Lows

April 18, 2019 00:58:01

You’re not supposed to say who we are, you’re supposed to say who we used to be!

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

The NBA Playoffs — or the draft lottery? Eli and Denny go at it over which is better for the Pathetic Pistons.
Miguel Cabrera is off to a terrible start. He’s 36 as of today. Has he lost it for good — or only until summertime?
And are Miggy’s off-field shenanigans hurting his game?
YOU, the listeners, have questions: The mystery of the 1968 Tigers’ jerseys? The high and low points of the boys’ careers? Why the lack of swearing on the podcast?
The new Lions schedule is out! Whoopty-damn-do. Bob goes off on his favorite whipping boys.
And Eli and Denny — restaurateurs?! Bob was in New York back then, thus avoiding ptomaine.
These stories and much more right here!