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Spencer Haywood in Pistons uniform holding a basketball

Episode 186: A Man FINALLY at Peace

October 22, 2020 01:37:04

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Basketball legend SPENCER HAYWOOD reveals his near suicide to the boys, just part of his amazing life and times!

But first ELI reveals how Spencer blew a real chance at the proverbial “deal too good to be true.”
After its bastardized regular season, why not a bastardized World Series for MLB as well?
The boys break down the umpiring fiascos, the pitching fiascos, the bizarre atmosphere and … and …
“Dead men tell no tales.” A big report in the Detroit News claims Don Canham was a major culprit in the U-M sex scandal.
At last! Michigan and Michigan State are back on the football field Saturday. Are these must-wins ALREADY?
Is a Big Ten(14) basketball coach the latest victim of the P.C. Posse — or did his university just want him out?
Bob wonders if a Damn Yankee from Detroit isn’t being unfairly tarred and feathered across Dixie?
Meanwhile, the Lions travel to the HEART of Dixie Sunday in a desperate attempt to save their season AND Patricia’s job.
We’ve got “This Day in Sports History,” a mailbag full of YOUR (sexist?!) comments — and much more right here.

Episode 181: The “Doctor” is IN!

October 5, 2020 01:36:33

A career in football took precedent over medicine.

Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page!

Another top Lions talent — College Football HOF member! — WASTED in Detroit: FREDDIE SCOTT is our guest!
Experts claimed Denny had some fake items in his big weekend sale. BFD — if ya listen to DENNY, that is.
Another NFL Sunday usually means it’s time for another “Bob Page’s Lions Lament” — and you got it!
Eli’s been talking to sources and now thinks he knows HOW the incompetent Ford family destroyed the Lions.
What better guy to discuss Bob Gibson AND adventures with the late Cards’ superstar pitcher than Denny McLain?
Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat: what a GAME Sunday night! Yet his life story is even better.
Bill Laimbeer’s a WHAT?! Bob has a choice term for the ex-Pistons star but respects him as a coach. Eli does NOT.
Oh, those HORRIBLY biased play-by-play and color commentators on national TV! The boys cry “Bull—-!”
Eli has ‘”This Day in Sports,” Bob has YOUR mailbag and much more right here!

Episode 169: DEXTER BUSSEY in the Battle of His LIFE!

August 24, 2020 01:25:41

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!

Eric Hipple in Lions uniform holding a football

Episode 153: NFL MUST Go On — but with Eric Hipple’s Solution?

June 29, 2020 01:35:50

I’m going to be controversial. Quarantine and isolate. You don’t have to see your family during the season.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page!

QB ERIC HIPPLE had it bad enough just PLAYING for the Lions, but what he suffered after was MUCH worse. Eric guests!
Eli and Denny spent their weekends watching - what else? - GOLF. They seem okay with its current state. Bob’s NOT.
The NBA playing in empty arenas and now with P.C. social messages on the backs of unis?! Had enough of pro basketball yet?
The FANS, the FANS! Bob says there are no sports and no sports media without YOU — so why play ANY games this year?
Even as Bill Belichick pays up for cheating — AGAIN — he brilliantly delivers what COULD be a big blow to other teams.
What does M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E spell? “THE NHL!” The league’s idiotic draft set-up screws the Red Wings.
Johnny Manziel has put football behind him: “I just want to be happy for the rest of my life.” WE have a suggestion!
More CRAZINESS everywhere. Kansas State’s football team boycotts; says THEY will control who’s enrolled at the university.
Statues being illegally torn down or replaced. How far will it go? Two American ICONS may be next — for very different reasons.
Eli provides “This Day in Sports History,” Bob rolls out YOUR Mailbag and much more — right here!

Episode 97: Will Jeff Bezos Buy the Lions?!

December 16, 2019 01:30:44

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain, and Bob Page.

Will Jeff Bezos buy the Lions?! https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/rumor-jeff-bezos-has-visited-detroit-twice-to-talk-about-buying-lions/. Bob tells why that might NOT happen.
He’s the proud owner of a USFL championship ring AND played in TWO Super Bowls: Ray Bentley is with us today!
Ray’s Michigan Panthers lead into old USFL stories and the VERY famous owner not ALLOWED to buy an NFL team.
Other NFL stories? Is the “R word” now a firing offense? And what’s wrong with “white women?!”
One NFL NON-story? The FL’s lose their seventh straight. But why count — other than the days til Matt’s gone?
Oregon conquers Ann Arbor and Bob didn’t like what he saw in Saturday’s game, particularly from Juwan.
Is ONE reason MSU has been so disappointing the personal tragedy of its star player?
The Army-Navy game under fire for a televised “white supremacy” sign from two cadets. Or WAS it that?
LSU QB Joe Burrow has won the Heisman, a trophy Eli disdains. He’ll tell you why.
He also RAVAGES what USED to be Sports Illustrated. Those stories, YOUR mailbag and much more right here!

Episode 74: Wayne Fontes REALLY Opens Up About his Lions Years!

September 23, 2019 01:46:24

I’ve never burned a bridge.

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

He’s rarely been back to Detroit and doesn’t do interviews — but he did with us! Ex-Lions coach Wayne Fontes has a LOT to say.
The smackdown of Jim Harbaugh rages on — and won’t get any easier for him on THIS program!
If ONLY Michigan had players like Michigan State’s Joe Bachie — whom they didn’t even recruit.
But Bob wonders: what’s a good MSU story like Saturday’s win at Northwestern without still more controversy?
The FL’s author a stunning victory at Philly! And now it’s on to the Super Bowl — right, you FL’s diehards?
Denny goes to a Tigers’ game — and his wallet won’t be the same for weeks! A full accounting coming up.
He RIPS Joe Madden, the manager of his own beloved Cubbies, yet somehow defends Derek Jeter’s woeful Marlins?!
Now on a ROLL (or maybe just in a BAD mood?) Denny claims MIGGY is dogging it.
The boys decry the continued abuse of Detroit, Eli now helping NFL fantasy players and the Cincinnati, uh, GREENS?
Those stories and more right here.

Episode 69: Like GREAT Stories? Eli, Denny and Bob Have Lots of ’em!

September 5, 2019 01:20:20

There aren’t rules…there are just guidelines!

It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page.

Our guest is ex-Lions great Lem Barney who claims football won’t exist any more in 15 years!
Meanwhile, the new NFL season is underway. Could the FL’s really go 0-11 out of the gate?! Bob explains.
More shenanigans from Airhead Brown as the boys rip him another new one.
We tell you about one of the greatest players in NFL history who’s NOT in the HOF.
And preview this Saturday’s Michigan and Michigan State games.
Eli and Denny have their gambling picks of the weekend — so YOU can bet against them and clean up!
JV not a Hall of Famer? Some young “Figure Filberts” lean on sabermetrics to say no!
Tales of the great Van Patrick, of Denny’s bad day at the dog races, advice on — mustaches(?) and much more right here.