This Day in Philly Sports History - May 5, 2025

Happy Monday! It's NHL Lottery Day. We'll know where the Flyers will pick later tonight. The Phillies dropped a wild one at CBP yesterday but still won the series against the D-Backs. We run our Tankathon Simulations for the Flyers and Sixers but and is Rob Thomson costing this team games?Today's Question of the Day is "Are Rob Thomson's decisions costing the Phillies games?"Today we add Dreams and Nightmares by Meek Mill to our Philly Sports Summer playlist.On this day in 1999 the Sixers beat the Pistons 105-100 in OT, clinching the 6 seed in the East as they made the playoffs for the first time since 1991. Allen Iverson scored 33 to secure his 1st NBA Scoring Title.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