This Day in Philly Sports History - May 3, 2025

It's a Saturday edition of the podcast. The Phillies opened their series against the Diamondbacks with a 3-2 win. An overall solid performance. They look to take the series today with Aaron Nola on the mound. We run our Sixers and Flyers Tankathon simulations and give our next song for our summer playlist.Today's Question of the Day is "Cowboys are not available, who is Philly Sports biggest rival?"Today's Philly Sports Summer Playlist song is Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.May 3 has not be kind to the Sixers in their rivalry with the Celtics. They've lost 4 times including game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals in 1981 where the Sixers blew a 3-1 lead.The 2025 Induction Class for the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame is set.  Here’s who got in https://www.philadelphiasportshalloffame.org/Meet Lenny Wagner, the author of “Playing with the Best: One Man’s Journey through the Golden Age of Sports.  The book chronicles the amazing life of Walter French who won both an World Series and NFL Championship.For more information about Lenny or Walter go to https://www.playingwiththebest.comLeave your text or voicemail thoughts and opinions on the Back to the Phuture Voice/Text Line @ 267-495-8531Check out Phillygoat.com for all of your Philly apparel needs. Use the promo code JIMMONTGOMERY for 10% off of your order The Clashing Conferences Podcast brings together the everyday passion of REAL fans and their not so friendly friends for the purpose of real life sports entertainment.  Available wherever you get your pods and on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGLVSg7IjPpQ93iTUPb-KIgCheck out the Philly Sports History Portal for access to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame New Digital Archive https://sites.google.com/phillyhall.org/phillysportshistory