No Filter Sports Show
Episode 213: Not by TURGENEV, Our OWN “Fathers and Sons”

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- “Write what you know:” the author’s mantra. And few know Detroit and its teams better than author TOM STANTON, our guest!
- Matthew Stafford TRADED! You’d expect the feckless Detroit sports media to love the FLs’ Big Deal — and BOB to be a skeptic.
- Can’t we please just play the damn game?! Still MORE Super Bowl hype all week for us. Are you Super BORED yet?
- In a crazy sports year few things could be crazier than Tom Izzo not making the NCAA Tournament field.
- Yet come to think of it, what could be crazier than MICHIGAN supplanting Tom’s MSU program so quickly?!
- NCAA basketball is “modern-day slavery,” huh? It isn’t if the “slaves” would only take advantage of a FREE education.
- The Wings’ LATEST skid is six games. Brandon McAfee says firing Jeff Blashill wouldn’t make a diff. Bob disagrees.
- Yet maybe our young producer is right about this too since Bob seems to be coming around on Bonds and Clemens as HOFers.
- Curt Schilling as well? Yes? Just think what this whacko might SAY standing on the podium at Cooperstown!
- Denny was off today. Wonder what he’d say about the Brewers hiring an ex-GIRLS SOFTBALL PLAYER as a hitting coach?
- Those stories, our necrology featuring a Detroit Tigers boyhood hero, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 212: Our Guest? One of Detroit’s Greatest Sportswriters!

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- The Baseball Hall of Fame has elected NOBODY this year. SHOULD they have?
- TOM GAGE, in the writers wing of the Hall himself, is a long-time voter and, boy, does he have a LOT to say to us!
- Bob wonders if you were thinking what he was last Sunday: did Belichick actually WANT Brady to win?
- How much “justice” can you afford? Brady’s former boss can afford a LOT, as it’s turned out!
- Producer Brandon McAfee has an interesting suggestion for the Lions in their quest to deal Matt Stafford.
- Remember that guy, Tom Izzo? Seems like AGES since he and his MSU basketball team have played.
- Yet the NBA is having even more COVID issues than Michigan State did AND that Michigan basketball now has.
- Don’t be a smart-aleck! The Pathetic Pistons are NOT gonna halt their season. Who would ASK to play for THEM?
- Denny: “If there’s a lotta fish on the table somebody’s gonna start eating ’em.” HUH?! He, um, DOES explain.
- What’s this — Al Avila with a smart free-agent signing? The boys all agree on something — for once.
- Those stories, answers to questions you may now have about this show in YOUR mailbag and more — right here!
Episode 211: Denny and The Hammer

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- Super Bowl LV is set: Tom Brady VERSUS — “the greatest quarterback ever?” At least according to Denny!
- Matthew Stafford is OUT as Lions quarterback. Good for MATT! But what now? Is SHEILA really gonna make the call?!
- Who better to comment on the death of the great HANK AARON than a former Braves teammate named DENNY McLAIN?
- But Denny reveals a shocker from that era when asked if he and Hank ever had a few pops together out on the town.
- Are the Wings dead — already?! They sure played dead in Chicago over the weekend.
- Sunday’s loss saw the debut of ex-coach Mike Babcock in-studio on NBC Sports. Bob rips NBC’s Empty Suits a new one!
- Sure was great to see the storied Wings-Black Hawks rivalry renew. Wait’ll ya hear THIS story about Stu vs. Probie!
- U-M basketball WAS rolling but now has to sit down for TWO WEEKS — a victim of its OWN administration.
- C.Y.A. (“Cover Your Ass”) may be a military term, but it sure looks like Jim Harbaugh is buying into it.
- The Tigers’ Al Avila keeps buying into his own, as Bob puts it, “Bum of the Month Club.”
- Mercy, mercy, ME — still another black eye for a once-proud athletic department which USED to be just “The U-D!”
- In YOUR mailbag segment, a listener turns the tables on Denny: “So, did YOU ‘ever think about coaching?'”
- Those stories, Brandon on The Big Fight, Mr. McLain back on the appearance circuit — and much more right here!
Episode 210: Never Fear — Our GAMES are Still Here!

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- 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!

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- 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 208: POLARIZING Sports Figures? WE got ‘EM!!

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- “How to be Miserable on $39 Million a Year.” If that’s not the title of JAMES HARDEN’s book someday, it SHOULD be!
- The NBA’s chief malcontent engineers his own trade. Now he gets to play with K.D. AND the NBA’s chief knucklehead.
- So many games canceled, so many Draconian new rules leave one NBA player asking, “Why even bother?”
- COVID comes to Michigan sports as the Pistons miss out on another loss and MSU misses out on a likely butt-kicking!
- “Butt-kicking?” Is there a term that goes beyond that? If so, you’d use it to describe the U of M’s ROUT of Wisconsin.
- College football: The boys offer some thoughts on Monday night’s national title game in our first show since then.
- Get ready to clean up because Denny’s gonna make his NFL playoff predictions. YOU’LL bet the other way, of course!
- URBAN MEYER leaving his cushy broadcast gig and moving to the NFL? Bob has only one question: WHY?!
- The Wings finally have a formal team leader, yet ESPN says the more things change, the more they …
- A BIG change for former Red Wings coach MIKE BABCOCK, but can this career shift possibly end well for him?
- And on a show that NEVER pulls any punches, why should WE change now on GIBBY or on FRANK BECKMANN?
- Those stories, Bob with perhaps the strangest story in Detroit Tigers history, YOUR mailbag and more right here!
Episode 207: INSIDE the Jim Harbaugh Deal

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- As Ohio State and Alabama go at it for the national title, WE look into a local college football story:
- The Jim Harbaugh contract extension. U-M reporter/podcaster Michael Spath takes us behind the scenes!
- A big football gambler? Or just nothing better to do during the pandemic? You REALLY watched ALL those playoff games?
- If the former Cleveland Clowns can get to the NFL post-season, can the LIONS be far behind?
- Bob provides a primer on how NOT to run an NFL team via a franchise even worse than the FL’s!
- The Pistons are off to a brutal start, but Tom Gores worry? He’s about to make more billions on PAY TOILETS!
- Yes, we all were outraged over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, yet the NBA’s chief KNUCKLEHEAD is taking it too far.
- And speaking of “knuckleheads,” how about James Harden and what one NBA all-time great said about HIM?
- It’s a Big Week in the Big 14! At least for Michigan and Michigan State. The boys sing Juwan’s praises.
- Tigers fans say “good riddance” to two guys who’ve tormented them in recent years.
- While Denny says good-bye to Tommy LaSorda AND comments on MLB’s new pitching scandal.
- Those stories, the Red Wings are BACK, YOUR mailbag and much more — right here!
Episode 206: That’s DOCTOR Billy Taylor to YOU!

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- “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 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!