Pandemic
Episode 200: Tom Seabron: A Winner at U-M AND in LIFE!

I would never start off in life to be number two.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page, Denny McLain & Lary Sorensen in for Eli.
- WOW, our 200th show! We thank YOU listeners and our sponsors for all your great support.
- “Student-athletes” in big-time college sports? They DO exist. Wait’ll you hear our guest, U-M football’s TOM SEABRON.
- Amazing that there will be NO Michigan-Ohio State game this year as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc.
- Yet Harbaugh’s U-M future — or lack of same — overshadowed “The Game.” Would he CHOOSE to leave as a failure?
- Could COVID stop the entire college basketball season? MSU-Virginia one of the latest big games called off.
- Will YOU get the vaccine as soon as it becomes available in the U.S.? The boys weigh in.
- Houston Rockets superstar James Harden now needs to pass SIX STRAIGHT COVID tests or the NBA won’t let him play!
- Harden seems somehow unhappy making $38 million a year. Denny and Lary, uh, made a little less in THEIR careers.
- Miami Heat star Tyler Herro isn’t worried about money, he’s worried teams are picking on him — cuz he’s WHITE!
- Some 90% of all college football head coaches are also white — is that FAIR in a game with a majority of black players?
- RIP Dick Allen. Denny STILL remembers MONSTER homers Allen hit off HIM! But should Dick be in the Hall of Fame?
- We’ve got those stories, Bob’s got 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 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 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 171: “I BLEED Green and White!”

Lorenzo White…the former Spartan great.
It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!
- Bo Jackson stole HIS Heisman! And so did Tim Brown! Ex-MSU superstar running back LORENZO WHITE is our guest!
- Eli starts the show by admitting he’s depressed these days with the world SO messed up. Bob: Join the club.
- The Tigers have found life again! They’re challenging for the playoffs. Denny is NOT impressed. Ditto with Casey Mize.
- Is there life still left in the old man? Miggy smacks his 2,000th career hit as a Tiger and is having FUN again!
- COVID-19 on the wane? The NBA now says it’s going to open its bubble to friends and family of the players.
- Dustin Johnson really impresses Denny and Eli despite falling in a playoff Sunday to a miraculous putt.
- One of the legends of college basketball has died. Bob’s not the only guy who had issues with John Thompson.
- Excuse me, WHAT was that amazing pitching line on Denny McLain again?! Even HE can’t believe it.
- Eli has “This Day in Sports History,” Bob’s got YOUR mailbag segment — 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!