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Episode 206: That’s DOCTOR Billy Taylor to YOU!

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- “Get Back Up!” The title of a book by BILLY TAYLOR and, boy, did he ever! The great U-M running back is our guest.
- For ONCE — and hopefully the last time ever needed here — the boys DO do politics on the show.
- The NFL Playoffs kick off this weekend. Our producer Brandon McAfee has a bold prediction for you!
- Meanwhile, Tom Brady had a bold — and stupid — challenge from one of the league’s top young stars.
- Did the Eagles actually tank that game against Washington Sunday? One thing’s sure: their players did not.
- Michigan basketball is ROLLIN’ and fun to watch — so what a bad time to have to SIT thanks to COVID.
- Of COURSE MSU alum Bob loves our former guest, Tom Izzo — but he still drives Bob nuts at times.
- Is there potentially big news for Michigan State football? MAYBE.
- The late, great Detroit sportscaster Al Ackerman was right: Detroit’s NBA team is indeed “The PP’s.”
- The Tigers have landed free agent Robbie Grossman! FYI: he is NOT Jewish. FYI: he is NOT the answer.
- And, desperate for revenue, can the Wings and the NHL be blamed much for what they’re about to do?
- Those stories, YOUR mailbag and much more right here!
Episode 204: Good-bye, 2020: UGH! Good-bye, ELI?

It’s hard to separate sports from reality.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- Happy New Year, everybody, as we ALL look ahead with hope for better days to come.
- Maybe COVID didn’t hit YOU or yours. Maybe YOU made big $$$ in the market. No matter, good riddance to 2020!
- It was a year that perhaps has triggered a major change in Eli’s very life as he’ll explain to you.
- Denny actually became LOOPY over Saturday’s Lions’ fiasco, a game SO ridiculous that one die-hard Lions fan even …!
- Then listen to Denny become MORE loopy when Eli reads him a quote from Tigers G.M. Al Avila.
- HOW many TD’s in ONE GAME?! Our producer Brandon McAfee relates a tale of woe from football’s fantasy leagues.
- Tom Gores takes heavy flak from Eli — again — as Denny reveals how HE suffered from Gore’s hand in PRISON!
- Remember the NFL’s CHICAGO Cardinals? Yes? The boys do, which means they — and likely YOU — are OLD!
- Still another baseball Hall of Famer has died. Denny recalls PHIL NIEKRO and Phil’s late brother Joe. He played with both.
- Those stories, Bob has another edition of YOUR mailbag — and much more right here!
Episode 201: “Yee-Hah!” The Wild Ride of Mike Henneman!

I went to Toledo with an attitude.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- Tigers reliever, RODEO star, finding his long-lost family, marrying a teammate’s widow? What a journey for MIKE HENNEMAN!
- Bob is APOPLECTIC, stammering in anger, spittle flying. Now the P.C. Posse’s even killed the CLEVELAND INDIANS!
- “Champions Week?” How about “LOSERS WEEK” — courtesy of the Big Ten(14) with its cockamamie football schedule.
- And does Ohio State really deserve to be crowned a “champion,” having played so few games?
- Another Sunday, another loss for the Lions. Weirdly enough, Eli and Denny somehow are seeing hope for them.
- The Tigers do NOT figure to have much hope in 2021. Maddeningly, Al Avila’s making no apologies for that.
- Eli rants about a Detroit Pistons team that oughta wear name tags at practice just to become acquainted.
- Wayne Gretzky’s rookie card has sold for a staggering sum! Resident sports memorabilia expert Denny explains why.
- Both undefeated, both in the nation’s top 20, but Bob says there’s a big diff between U-M and MSU basketball.
- Those stories, Eli with “This Day in Sports,” YOUR Mailbag segment and much more — right here!
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 197: Blind Faith: Do Long-Suffering Lions Fans Have a CHOICE?

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with “The Original Three:” Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- As a young Johnny Carson asked on his 1950’s TV show every week: “Who Do You Trust?” SURELY not Sheila and Rod?!
- Whom WILL the duo hire as new Lions general manager? Former star wideout Herman Moore pounds the table for an ex-teammate.
- Too late to make our show taping today: Michigan football “paused” due to COVID-19! Frankly, it couldn’t have come at a better time.
- While Penn State provided the LATEST embarrassment for U-M, MSU is riding high — at least until (gulp!) the Bucks hit town this week.
- And Ohio State NEEDS to play this game in the midst of a veritable SEA of nationwide COVID cancellations.
- Golf wackos Eli and Denny, of COURSE, watched the Phil/Steph/Peyton/Barkley extravaganza, but non-wacko Bob has a question about Sir Charles.
- WHAT “wackos” watched Saturday night’s Mike Tyson-Roy Jones abomination? WE’VE got TWO of ’em right here on the show!
- Tom Izzo and Coach K ready to rumble again! IF MSU is as AWESOME as it was against Notre Dame Saturday who can beat them?
- The Pistons make an announcement that would have been UNTHINKABLE anywhere in sports just a few years ago.
- Eli fears his “This Day in Sports” is hitting a wall. Bob has YOUR mailbag — and we’ve got 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 194: Scared of Butkus? Not a Young GREG LANDRY!

But you always wanted to know where he was…
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page, Fred Heumann AND Lary Sorensen!
- Okay, so maybe they weren’t “glory days,” but the Detroit Lions of our guest, GREG LANDRY, were at least FUN!
- NOW, Eli says the COVID crisis has taken the “fun” element OUT of sports. Bob, Fred and Lary disagree.
- Still, what a world we’re in! MSU’s football game a COVID cancelation. MSU basketball expecting cancellations.
- Sports TV ratings are way down and surveys indicate most of you will not go to live events til there’s a COVID vaccine.
- All those kids! What WERE the Pistons thinking about in the NBA draft, which was at least high on MUSICAL talent.
- With another embarrassing loss for U-M a possibility Saturday, would the Jets try to hire Jim Harbaugh anyway?
- Easy come, easy go. One airhead MLB player loses a guaranteed $24 million for taking steroids!
- “This Day in Sports” finds one of our fans bravely staying at his battle station during “Malice at the Palace!”
- Those stories, Lary ripped by Howard Cosell on national TV, YOUR Mailbag 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 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!