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Episode 199: “I Came to Hate Joe Paterno!”

He really didn’t like me very much.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain & Bob Page.
- One of Penn State’s greatest players, ex-Detroit Lions star KEITH DORNEY, talks about his FASCINATING life.
- To paraphrase a famous song by The Clash, “Should he stay or should he go?” Harbaugh rumors are FLYING!
- It’s Michigan-Ohio State week and Bob says WHAT? “BFD?!” If you’re on the U-M side, MANY feel the same way.
- How DARE Denny’s beloved Chicago Bears blatantly rip off the Lions’ M.O.? Isn’t it copyrighted?
- Who IS this guy, Darrell Bevell? And who IS actually running the FOOTBALL side of the franchise these days?
- A famous football man says women don’t generally like or follow sports? Golly gee, shocking. So why apologize?
- The Sarah Silliness just won’t go away — and neither will Eli in slamming it!
- Not good enough to catch for the catcher-less Tigers — but good enough for one of MLB’s top teams?
- Do we have a new feature on the show? Eli declares the Nets’ Kyrie Irving his inaugural “Idiot of the Week!”
- On our “This Day in Sports” AND on this Pearl Harbor Day we recall an American sports star and hero of WWII.
- Those stories, Bob with YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 198: Two-Sport Star — to Superstar COACH!

But we know him best as a running back for Bo.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Fred Heumann sitting in for Eli Zaret!
- One of the great athletes in Michigan high school history is now one of its great MENTORS: our guest, THOMAS WILCHER.
- OUTRAGEOUS! How DARE Herbie claim Harbaugh doesn’t want to play Ohio State! But, uh, DOES he? Really?
- A Wednesday afternoon NFL game? The boys agree: an abomination in damn near every sense.
- And now COVID-19 begins another reign of sports terror: the NBA says 48 players just got it!
- So you think nothing excites curmudgeonly Bob? Just ask him about Michigan State basketball this year.
- Denny’s excited about his beloved Bears’ “Polish kid” versus the Lions, then gets the word: Trubisky is NOT Polish.
- Dennis Dale McLain — JEWISH?! Oy, who knew?! He’s FULL of surprises today:
- Teddy Ballgame once said WHAT to him? Denny in a fistfight with a teammate in the Tigers’ locker room?
- A 27-year-old former World Series hero is on the open market “CHEAP.” Should the Tigers grab him?
- Fred knows whom HE wants to see the Tigers sign. Bob AND Denny: “Fuhgettaboutit!”
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more — right here!
Episode 192: SO Close at Augusta — Yet SO FAR!

Not to be!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain and Lary Sorensen filling in for Eli!
- It’s Masters week — in NOVEMBER! Ah, 2020. But we’ve got a GREAT guest to talk about it: Michigan’s own DAN POHL.
- Was Danny the best golfer the state ever produced? With The Mitten’s weather, the list sure ain’t long but we’ll take a look.
- Ohio State’s Urban Meyer as head coach of (gulp!) The University of MICHIGAN? Get outta here!
- The 0-9 laughing stock New York Jets in the playoffs? Get outta here! The LIONS could still make it too.
- Old pals Lary and Bob have a BIG, uh, “discussion” about MONEY in baseball.
- J.T. Realmuto, George Springer and DJ LeMahieu have all REJECTED $18.9 million for 2021. Could any land in Detroit?
- Chris Fetter HAS landed in Detroit as Tigers’ pitching coach. It’s Lary against his boyhood idol, Denny McLain, on THAT one.
- Could a student be admitted to the University of Michigan, let alone survive academically, without PERFECT English fluency?
- That issue is part of a red-hot battle that may soon turn U-M vs MSU basketball into the NEW Duke-Carolina.
- And a horrible tragedy in the sports world leads us to reexamine one of the wildest college bowl games ever played.
- We’ve got those stories, YOUR mailbag and much for you — 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 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 173: Detroit’s own Ernie Whitt: CANADIAN Sports God!

I tricked them for a lot of years!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- “I might be the best manager who was never hired.” Yet ERNIE WHITT had one helluva playing career with the Blue Jays. The Detroit native joins us!
- One of the toughest opponents Denny’s Detroit Tigers ever faced has left us. Our thoughts on the passing of Lou Brock.
- The Tigers lost their critical series at Minnesota, but the boys are still impressed by what they’ve seen from many of the youngsters.
- College football is BACK! Well, ya know, KIND OF “back.” Is it getting too late for the Big Ten(14!) to try to play?
- The NFL WILL play starting Thursday night! Bob wonders how much of a BLM demonstration there might be, on and off the field.
- The Lions signed one of the most famous names in football: running back Adrian Peterson. But will it really help this sad-sack franchise?
- Eli LOVES his playing but is underwhelmed by his apparent I.Q.! Dustin Johnson vying for (gulp!) $15 million at the PGA Tour Championship.
- Part of a wild Labor Day sports weekend: Novak Djokovic DQs himself from the US Open? Kirk Herbstreit weeping on TV?
- Those stories, Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 172: Shep: LIVIN’ THE DREAM!

It’s a blast…every single day.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- So how do you get to be an MLB play-by-play announcer? Guest MATT SHEPARD had a VERY unusual path to the Tigers!
- The sports world mourns the death of one of the greatest pitchers ever. The boys reminisce on Tom Terrific.
- The Tigers’ win streak ended at six. With five games against the Twins now on tap, is this the season’s telling point?
- Looks like Eli’s suddenly started to watch the NBA playoffs. He did NOT like what he saw from one game in particular.
- Bob on the NHL Playoffs: Is the great Zdeno Chara finally finished at 43 — or just finished in Boston?
- Get ready, gamblers! Denny has his pick on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby for you — NOT!
- Legal sports gambling rages on. Denny updates us on what the Cubs are doing — and WHAT’S that about MJ?!
- Big Ten(14!) football after all? President Trump will want to take credit IF that occurs — but would he deserve to?
- MSU’s Kirk Cousins raked over the coals by the media for his ideas about COVID-19! Denny and Eli to the rescue.
- How much would YOU pay for a presence at FL’s games? “ZERO?” Producer Brandon McAfee sez $100 but he does have limits.
- Eli with “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 169: DEXTER BUSSEY in the Battle of His LIFE!

Typical Dexter Bussey: No complaints
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- One of the most popular Lions in memory, DEXTER BUSSEY, joins the boys on his career, unusual POST-career — AND his health!
- You’ll hear the voice of legendary sportscaster Bob Reynolds on Dex. WHAT? Never heard of BOB REYNOLDS?! It’s NOT all pretty.
- Not only did the Tigers actually win a GAME against Cleveland, they won the weekend series!
- Now what? Does Al Avila go for broke or does he start trading guys for more “prospects” – SUSPECTS – at the deadline?
- The PC Posse continues its takeover of sports, UNLESS, as Bob points out, you’re a black NBA player making a racist comment.
- And to think of Mike Milbury being “canceled” for a totally innocuous statement — whether YOU like him as a commentator or not.
- Resident golf mavens Eli and Denny go NUTS over what Dustin Johnson did last weekend! Does Koepka eat humble pie?
- Did they just hold one of the greatest events of the sports world in veritable secrecy?! Almost seems that way!
- Denny may not like it, but one NFL team now says there WILL be fans at ITS home games this year.
- Those stories, Eli with “This Day in Sports,” Bob with YOUR mailbag and much more right here!