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

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 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 109: Chris Spielman: A Football Life

In A Violent Game, Spielman Stood Out as One of the Fiercest
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- With The Super Bowl almost here, ex-Ohio State and Lions star Chris Spielman is our guest on the show!
- BOB, at least, remains in shock following the death of Kobe Bryant. Eli and Denny? Slightly different story.
- A longtime private pilot, Denny takes us through what may have happened with the doomed helicopter.
- Did you know Kobe was almost a Piston? We explain — while Eli says the current Pistons need to start tanking NOW!
- MSU basketball stock? UP, despite a tough loss at Indiana. Michigan’s? DOWN. Eli’s pessimistic. Bob is NOT.
- Castellanos signs a big free-agent deal with Cincy. And YOU thought the Tigers smart enough to bring Nick back?!
- Yes, the SB is indeed finally upon us. Excited? Or have you had WAY too much football at this point?
- HUH? ANOTHER SB was played this past weekend? We explain why it was kinda like the blind leading the blind!
- Zion Williamson getting unusual medical treatment from the Pelicans. Eli has those details.
- Simona WHO? Is she one of those “big girls” who DO cry? Meanwhile, Tiger is back. What does it mean for golf?
- And 2019 MIGHT not have been the worst year for Detroit sports after all. THAT’S in YOUR mailbag plus more right here.
Episode 95: DIRECT from Hamtramck AND MLB — It’s “WIMPY!”

You never lose a nickname!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.
- FUNNY guy, GREAT personality! Tom Paciorek shoulda been a media star after his MLB career! Wait. He WAS! And he’s our GUEST!
- A special thanks from Denny to YOU and to so many others for the condolences pouring in over Sharon’s passing.
- Sweet Lou failed again with HOF Vets Committee voters. An injustice? Did his personality cost him?
- Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller DID get in but Bob attacks Miller for MLB’s money INSANITY. Eli and Denny attack Bob BACK!
- And those two big bullies ALSO air it out with poor Bob on Ken Harrelson, who MAY be about to go in!
- The boys are NOT getting along! Eli gets BIG pushback from Bob: won’t he PLEASE stop talking so much about the FL’s?!
- And Mr. Z recaps, uh, some kind of heavyweight title fight this weekend. Quick now! Name ANY current champ you can!
- It’s U-M (gulp!) vs Alabama in ONE bowl game and MSU (gulp!) vs Wake Forest and its hi-powered offense in another.
- Eli takes us on a (comical) tour of some of the VERY BIG bowl games on the slate for lucky US.
- PLUS, a WOMAN head coach in the NBA(?!), M and MSU basketball, YOUR comments in the mailbag and more right here!