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Episode 210: Never Fear — Our GAMES are Still Here!

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain!
- We all agree: the world SUCKS right now, but at least we still have sports — AND its knuckleheads — to entertain us.
- What team gets a home game in the Super Bowl? None EVER! Tom Brady hopes to change that in the NFC title game.
- And another ex-Michigan star quarterback could also make headlines in Sunday’s AFC title tilt.
- Are you betting the games? You can now do that LEGALLY in Michigan starting Friday.
- The Lions unveil their LATEST five-year rebuilding program, so optimistic they gave their LATEST coach a SIX-year deal!
- Why do younger Lions fans also seem so optimistic about their sad-sack team? Brandon McAfee RANTS on that!
- SWEATING and SLOBBERING all over each other? The NBA’s okay with that — but handshakes? No WAY.
- Bob’s sweating out Friday, hoping COVID doesn’t cancel Michigan at Purdue. Like all of us, he needs something to do!
- Why are the Pistons so pathetic? ONE game tells part of the story: a guy they have and two guys they should have had.
- Is Tigers G.M. Al Avila signing all these bums just to irritate Denny? If so, he’s doing a great job of it!
- Is the Baseball Hall of Fame ready to put Clemens and/or Bonds in next week? Should they? Hear our spirited debate.
- All those stories, YOUR mailbag segment and much more coming up right here!
Episode 209: One TRUE BLUE Ohioan!

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- U-M star, Olympic gold medalist, first-round NBA draft choice — the long basketball life of guest PHIL HUBBARD!
- What a quarterback dual: Brady vs Brees! But as often happens with great pitching match-ups — a DUD.
- The boys recap the weekend’s NFL playoffs, look ahead to this Sunday’s title games AND to the Super Bowl.
- The WHAT Bowl? A foreign concept, of course, to the Lions — now embarking on their LATEST rebuilding program.
- Should they have hired Robert Saleh instead? Or Urban Meyer? Bet that if a mistake can be made, the FL’s will make it.
- A great goaltender? At times. A great Detroit Red Wing? Always! And now HOWIE hangs ’em up.
- Bob warned it might happen. Denny pooh-poohed him, but Michigan did indeed go down at Minnesota.
- Now will COVID allow U-M to play Maryland or MSU to play Illinois? Bob asks, no, BEGS, the Big 14 for just one thing.
- Denny rips his former team — again — for stubbornly sitting out free agency without a splash.
- And he rips baseball’s Hall of Fame for continuing to snub one of his greatest friends and Tiger teammates.
- Those stories, a top Detroit sportscaster skewered in YOUR mailbag segment and more — right here!
Episode 205: Bear Bryant’s Last Captain: Steve Mott

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain — and that’s IT!
- A new era for the show begins after Eli’s self-imposed “retirement.” WE hope he comes back to us.
- Meantime, ex-Lions center STEVE MOTT, one of the great players in Alabama history, joins us on THE Big Game and more.
- FREE BEER? This is what Lions fans are left with after ANOTHER disastrous year?! The FL’s are even messing THIS up!
- Is Matthew Stafford coming back? Who’s the new GM? The LATEST head coach? So MANY questions.
- And who speaks for YOU? A famous voice from Texas, through remarks intended for a different team.
- They’re partying in Columbus and the Bama game hasn’t even been played. WHY? Jim Harbaugh’s staying at Michigan!
- No Eli? Producer Brandon McFee may be just as opinionated! He and Bob tangle over a big issue in college football.
- After destroying the fleabag Duke’s Mayo Bowl, somewhere Mr. Z is smiling. The game came to a fitting — and hysterical — climax!
- How good is U-M basketball! How good is U-M freshman Hunter Dickinson?! Bob says enjoy him while you can.
- Dave DeBusschere must be rolling over after a WUSSY move by his once-proud alma mater.
- Dumped by a phony girlfriend — then rejected by the Pistons too! But guess who’s getting the last laugh?
- Those stories, Denny remembers MLB’s seven HOFers we lost in 2020, 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 203: When the Irish “Tied One for the Gipper!”

The Game of the Century!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.
- MSU’S CLINT JONES guests on playing in the storied 10-10 game, on being a black STAR in the turbulent 60’s and MORE!
- GOLF’S next black star? Eli will tell you all about him — and choke back his tears as he does.
- College football’s four-team playoffs are now set, but does Notre Dame really belong in them?
- One thing’s sure: no matter WHAT Denny predicted here, the Lions won’t be in ANY playoffs.
- And while wiping the egg off his face from that, is he taking his frustrations out unfairly on Matt Stafford?
- WHAT?! A plain mayonnaise sandwich? Denny: YUM! Eli: Have I got a mayonnaise for YOU!
- “Typhoid Rudy” signs a $200 million deal while Bob tells us what ONE dollar once meant to two great NBA centers.
- The NHL announces a January return with new divisions due to COVID. Will its players first have to be vaccinated?
- And they called Pete Rozelle “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?” A LOT of “grinches” will steal THIS Christmas.
- Bob rips MSU basketball a new one — but then Tom Izzo does too! And, OMG, such STUPID BLACK uniforms!
- Those stories, a big loss for the Tigers, YOUR mailbag segment 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 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 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 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!