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Episode 200: Tom Seabron: A Winner at U-M AND in LIFE!

I would never start off in life to be number two.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Lary Sorensen in for Eli.
- WOW, our 200th show! We thank YOU listeners and our sponsors for all your great support.
- “Student-athletes” in big-time college sports? They DO exist. Wait’ll you hear our guest, U-M football’s TOM SEABRON.
- Amazing that there will be NO Michigan-Ohio State game this year as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc.
- Yet Harbaugh’s U-M future — or lack of same — overshadowed “The Game.” Would he CHOOSE to leave as a failure?
- Could COVID stop the entire college basketball season? MSU-Virginia one of the latest big games called off.
- Will YOU get the vaccine as soon as it becomes available in the U.S.? The boys weigh in.
- Houston Rockets superstar James Harden now needs to pass SIX STRAIGHT COVID tests or the NBA won’t let him play!
- Harden seems somehow unhappy making $38 million a year. Denny and Lary, uh, made a little less in THEIR careers.
- Miami Heat star Tyler Herro isn’t worried about money, he’s worried teams are picking on him — cuz he’s WHITE!
- Some 90% of all college football head coaches are also white — is that FAIR in a game with a majority of black players?
- RIP Dick Allen. Denny STILL remembers MONSTER homers Allen hit off HIM! But should Dick be in the Hall of Fame?
- We’ve got those stories, Bob’s got YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 191: DOWN from “Mt. Rushmore” and ONTO Our Show!

Congratulations on a career well lived.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, Bob Page AND Fred Heumann!
- The greatest hockey announcer EVER? Many say that about the personable MIKE “DOC” EMERICK, our guest today!
- But who’s interviewin’ whom? Michigan resident Doc has plenty of questions for Denny about the ’68 Tigers.
- Eli’s U-M sources report that it’s all over for Jim Harbaugh. The proverbial “mutual decision” to come at year’s end.
- After the humiliation at Iowa, Bob asks why, among hundreds of coaches, MSU was so bent on hiring Mel Tucker.
- State won’t get any help this week against Indiana — at least not from Eli, who’s jumpin’ on the Hoosier bandwagon!
- How much will new manager A.J. Hinch mean to the Tigers — and what about his coaching hires of the weekend?
- The Lions go belly-up again. Let the LATEST five-year rebuilding program begin! But with (gulp!) Sheila Hamp Ford guiding it?
- The Masters in NOVEMBER? It starts this week! Eli and Denny guarantee the biggest current name in golf will NOT win.
- And a Red Wings favorite says a classy good-bye with a thank-you note to Detroit and his home state.
- Those stories, Eli has his “This Day in Sports History,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 187: WOW! What a World Series!

All five games have been great!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Eli!
- If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it …? No matter the ratings, MLB is on FIRE!
- Has there EVER, in HISTORY, been a better, more entertaining baseball game than Saturday night’s?!
- Yet Denny and Lary, BOTH ex-big leaguers, decry pitching’s new maxims — and its lack of fundamentals.
- Is MLB’s rules committee planning to take action against one of the game’s other big changes?
- “Ya know, the Lions coulda won that game at Atlanta, and they SHOULDA won that …” OMG! WAIT! They DID win!
- Michigan State did NOT win Saturday, a fact not lost on MSU alumnus Bob who unleashes an EPIC RANT!
- Bob’s even a little concerned about Michigan after its victory at Minnesota, though NO worries for M THIS week.
- Don’t athletes have the same right to privacy we ALL should? Lary comments on a brouhaha with the New York Giants.
- Tigers fans didn’t know his name, but sure knew his face. Bill Fundaro — AND an MSU great in our necrology.
- Those stories, the sad tale of Peter Norman in 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 181: The “Doctor” is IN!

A career in football took precedent over medicine.
Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- Another top Lions talent — College Football HOF member! — WASTED in Detroit: FREDDIE SCOTT is our guest!
- Experts claimed Denny had some fake items in his big weekend sale. BFD — if ya listen to DENNY, that is.
- Another NFL Sunday usually means it’s time for another “Bob Page’s Lions Lament” — and you got it!
- Eli’s been talking to sources and now thinks he knows HOW the incompetent Ford family destroyed the Lions.
- What better guy to discuss Bob Gibson AND adventures with the late Cards’ superstar pitcher than Denny McLain?
- Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat: what a GAME Sunday night! Yet his life story is even better.
- Bill Laimbeer’s a WHAT?! Bob has a choice term for the ex-Pistons star but respects him as a coach. Eli does NOT.
- Oh, those HORRIBLY biased play-by-play and color commentators on national TV! The boys cry “Bull—-!”
- 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 162: Former Pistons Star Makes REAL Good!

I don’t want anybody to know what I’m doing!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- “How to Succeed in Business WITH Really Trying?” What a life ex-Pistons star JOHN MENGELT has had! “Crash” joins the boys.
- Eli comes up with an interesting stat: as of Thursday we were already 1/10th through the MLB season!
- Fantastic start for the Tigers’ Jacoby Jones. Will he someday become a big star? Eli: Maybe Denny: NO! Bob: YES!
- Miguel Cabrera is slow. Uh, HOW slow IS he? Pathetically slow – and perhaps washed up too!
- Joe Kelly of the Dodgers was slapped with an eight-game suspension after headhunting the Astros. Fair?
- Oh. You haven’t been watching MLB games? Had enough of COVID issues, eh? Don’t worry. It’s all FAKE — says one NBA player.
- Racism, real or not, is cutting a swath through the U.S. Will one of the Big Ten’s best-known coaches be a victim?
- MANY alleged victims file a lawsuit charging that Bo Schembechler WAS guilty in the U-M sex abuse scandal.
- Those stories, Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob has YOUR mailbag segment 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 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!