No Filter Sports

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page! On Super Bowl weekend are any of YOU making bets the size of “Mattress Mack’s?” Let alone on the underdog? GARY MYERS thinks Mack is gonna be right. The highly-respected NFL writer/broadcaster joins us from New York! Jim Harbaugh and staff land another...

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! “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...

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! 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...

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! 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...

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....

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...

Welcome to the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! “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....

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! 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...

Welcome to No Filter Sports Podcast with Bob Page and Denny McLain! “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...

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...

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...

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...

He had everything going for him. It’s the latest No Filter Sports Podcast with Eli Zaret, Denny McLain and Bob Page. One of the greatest QB’s in Big Ten history, CHUCK LONG, never lived up to that potential in Detroit. Chuck tells all! The Lions hire Chris Spielman, not to run the show,  but only to assist in the hiring...

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...

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,...