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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 180: What’s WRONG with U-M Football? BUTCH Has an Idea!

They need to go with a more athletic quarterback.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page — and Lary Sorensen sitting in for Denny!
- Ya better be TOUGH to play for Bo AND Parcells! BUTCH WOOLFOLK was — and DID! The ex-Michigan star running back is our guest.
- The MLB Playoffs had more games Wednesday than the entire post-season of many past years! And WHAT time did that Yankees game end?
- Modern technology is changing baseball even further. Lary tells us about pitchLogic and Bob has more on the umpires versus the computers.
- Is the pandemic slowly starting to wane? MLB announces that there WILL be fans at some upcoming games.
- “I can not BELIEVE that jerk dropped the ball!!!” Yep, it sure is easy watching games from the couch. Lary calls us all OUT on that.
- Was Denny RIGHT on our last show? Could The NBA Finals indeed be a four-game sweep for the Lakers over Miami.
- Eli has some strong words for the possible upcoming McGregor/Pacquiao fight.
- And so the stage is set for still another Detroit Lions collapse — just when some fans (who don’t know any better!) are getting excited.
- Mr. Z also has “This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag segment and we’ve got much MORE right here!
Episode 178: Welcome, Lary! THIS is How We Roll!

Good luck?!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Fred Heumann!
- Ex-MLB and U-M pitcher Lary Sorensen will have a role in many of our future shows. Did HE get an earful today as the boys fuss and FEUD!
- First — a fiery exchange over new Lions’ boss Sheila Ford Hamp. As usual, it’s Eli and Denny vs. Bob with “let’s give her a chance!” vs. “what a joke!”
- Then later, a REALLY “fiery exchange” between Denny and Bob over baseball!
- Denny also continues to insist the FL’s will NOT fire Matt Patricia this year. Eli: hold the phone on that one with an 0-4 start looming.
- The legendary Gale Sayers passed away this week at 77. Was he the first great BLACK halfback ever?
- Sayers was arguably THE greatest running back PERIOD. So, who was MLB’s greatest starting pitcher? Bob says only that nobody’s ever been BETTER than de Grom.
- With the Tigers’ season essentially over for some time, what to do about Miggy SUDDENLY looking like MIGGY again?
- A listener wonders where on EARTH Denny got his “scoop” that the Tigers would name Lance Parrish to replace Gardy?
- Get ready for a whopping 16 teams in the MLB playoffs — permanently — or even more! Ya like that idea?
- Since Denny has ZERO interest in hockey, that must mean none of YOU cares about hockey — right? Bob still pays tribute to two famous Michigan hockey products.
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History” then wages another battle with Bob over YOUR Mailbag. WHEW! What a DAY! Those stories and more right here. Be ready!
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!
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!
Episode 149: The GREAT Rod Carew

No easy out.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Baseball Hall of Famer ROD CAREW joins the boys to talk about his amazing career, amazing new HEART & more!
- So Jim Nantz began Saturday’s PGA telecast with a tribute to George Floyd? Bob asks where the Tour’s BEEN all these years!
- Is Rob Manfred going to save MLB’s season by FORCING the players and owners to (finally) get started?
- The NBA has a plan to come back, but Kyrie Irving says it SHOULDN’T until “Black Lives Matter” is accomplished!
- No word from the NHL on its restart as one star coach asks how an NFL comeback’s possible with “social distancing.”
- What if Gibby’s World Series homers had been played in EMPTY STADIUMS?! Eli on board with Bob: there MUST be fans!
- ESPN’s doc on the steroid-laden 1998 home-run race premieres. Why are McGuire & Bonds welcome in MLB but not Sosa?
- Mr. Z always has terrific stories about Allen Iverson who just turned 45. You won’t believe what happens when he turns 55!
- What happened 55 YEARS ago? Denny: ROD CAREW broke in? Uh, NO, Denny! He finally got the answer.
- Those stories, YOUR Mailbag segment and much more right here!
Episode 146: Campy Russell: An American Success Story

What a career!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- The boys welcome ex-Michigan and NBA star CAMPY RUSSELL to the show, who says the NBA’S “show” MUST go on!
- As if COVID-19 weren’t enough of an issue, society’s racial unrest is suddenly tearing apart the sports world.
- The controversy’s also caused a long-time NBA announcer to lose his job while one NFL coach is trying to hang on to HIS.
- And will a Florida State football star lose his spot on the team after publicly calling his head coach a — WHAT?!
- The MLB season is in serious jeopardy over the usual millionaires vs billionaires squabble. DENNY sets a deadline!
- The NBA and the NHL WILL return — but at this point, how many people even care anymore?
- And how many brave souls would turn out in the brutal South Florida summer to watch Major League SOCCER?
- Eli talks with former guest, attorney DAN WALLACH, then says Duke’s Zion scandal will NOT be a big problem. Bob’s not sure!
- Denny asks why it seems like SO many sports figures are now dying. Wes Unseld, Pat Dye and Johnny Majors just this week.
- Lenny Dykstra has lost a defamation lawsuit against an ex-Mets teammate. Why? TRY to stifle your laughter.
- And YOUR mailbag segment NOW has nearly sent Eli into apoplexy. Those stories and much more right here!
Episode 114: Jason “Rooftop” Thompson: My Life in Baseball

The old guys call me Rooftop, the younger kids have no idea who I am!
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- JASON THOMPSON joins the boys who ask why Sparky got rid of him, what it was like to be part of “Birdmania” and much more!
- Mel Tucker is the new MSU football coach. You say Michigan media people were SOFT on this story? WE will NOT be!
- Ah, those “student-athletes.” Two football players banished from Ohio State over rape allegations!
- Is MLB going to update its playoff format to 14 teams — and pick your OWN opponent?! Denny has an alternative.
- The Astros’ sign-stealing is still making folks angry — and Denny’s even angrier about Pete Rose asking back in.
- Are the FL’s really going to trade Matthew Stafford? How much could they get for him at this point?
- Eli says the Pistons are worth a BILLION dollars more than Tom Gores paid for them! Bob explains why he REALLY wanted the team.
- “Screaming” Tom Izzo MAY have righted his sinking ship with a big win at Illinois.
- But don’t blame Northwestern for losing to Michigan’s basketball team. The Mildcats do things the right way.
- Those stories, Denny McLain, golf hustler as part of YOUR mailbag segment plus MORE right here.
Episode 109: Chris Spielman: A Football Life

In A Violent Game, Spielman Stood Out as One of the Fiercest
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!
- With The Super Bowl almost here, ex-Ohio State and Lions star Chris Spielman is our guest on the show!
- BOB, at least, remains in shock following the death of Kobe Bryant. Eli and Denny? Slightly different story.
- A longtime private pilot, Denny takes us through what may have happened with the doomed helicopter.
- Did you know Kobe was almost a Piston? We explain — while Eli says the current Pistons need to start tanking NOW!
- MSU basketball stock? UP, despite a tough loss at Indiana. Michigan’s? DOWN. Eli’s pessimistic. Bob is NOT.
- Castellanos signs a big free-agent deal with Cincy. And YOU thought the Tigers smart enough to bring Nick back?!
- Yes, the SB is indeed finally upon us. Excited? Or have you had WAY too much football at this point?
- HUH? ANOTHER SB was played this past weekend? We explain why it was kinda like the blind leading the blind!
- Zion Williamson getting unusual medical treatment from the Pelicans. Eli has those details.
- Simona WHO? Is she one of those “big girls” who DO cry? Meanwhile, Tiger is back. What does it mean for golf?
- And 2019 MIGHT not have been the worst year for Detroit sports after all. THAT’S in YOUR mailbag plus more right here.