| Guy & Pam attend over 150 sporting events a year, nearly 50 of which are Pennsylvania football games. Their weekly in-season blog focuses on PIAA District 11, and this season will expand to also include Saturday PSAC NCAA D2 games. Guy runs the auto racing "TrackChaser" group, the website roamingtheraceways.com and has written a weekly column in "Area Auto Racing News" for over 40 years. Guy is retired from teaching high school computer programming, while Pam is in her final year as a professor of Speech Pathology at Bloomsburg University. |
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 57 Years Later
November 11, 2025
And yet another football week in the books with four games attended. On Thursday we headed to Southern Lehigh for the D11 4A semifinal. Of all the districts in the entire state, District 11 was the only one with Thursday games last week. Do we live in the best district or what!? On Friday we […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Round One Rematches
November 4, 2025
Once again, our weekend included four football games and a race. Although there are no more Monday JV games, we were able to easily double up on Saturday. Three of the four games attended featured rematches from the regular season. This is the reason we are not overly keen on the first round of the […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Are There Too Many Teams in the Playoffs?
October 28, 2025
This past week we again attended four games as the regular season ended after ten weeks of football. That meant the final game for some teams, as well as for all of the JV squads. In District 11, the vast majority of teams make the playoffs. Some say too many, and we tend to agree. […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: “Fifty in Five” JV Milestone
October 21, 2025
Four games for us this week, along with two races. Guy reached a milestone on Monday, attending his 50th JV game in our five years writing the blog for “PA Football News.” We don’t believe that anyone supports District 11 Junior Varsity football teams like we do. Unfortunately, things are not at all well in […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Southern Lehigh Now 23-0
October 14, 2025
Four football and one race for us this week. All four football were District 11 high school, three varsity, one JV. We were able to score a new stadium as the Southern Lehigh Spartans traveled outside of D11 for a JV game at Strath Haven High School. For the second time this year, Southern Lehigh’s […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Pates Open Bethlehem City Championship Series by Shutting out Becahi
October 7, 2025
Five to four to just three football games for Guy & Pam last weekend, plus three races. All three football games were D11 high school, two varsity on Thursday and Friday, and a JV Monday. We were actually able to attend all three on our original schedule this week. Once again, the JV game was […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Southern Lehigh’s Culture of Winning
September 30, 2025
After a couple straight weeks of five football game weekends, this past week it was “only” four, as the Saturday evening slot was occupied by the races at the Mahoning Valley Speedway (three weeks left in their season) and Sunday by Guy & Pam participating in an UltraTrek Hike in New Jersey. The Thursday and […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Football for Five / 39 Years Later
September 23, 2025
The previous week Pam and Guy went to five football games in five days, but that was two Saturday, none Sunday. This week we again went to five games, and this week it was one game per day for five straight days. One of those five games was a college JV game. Pam had never […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Five for Five
September 16, 2025
We went five for five in high school football games from Thursday – Monday. Also during that same five-day period, we went to two auto races and participated in a pair of charity events: ASHA Foundation Virtual 5K and a three-mile walk in Allentown for Pancreatic Cancer Research. During that same five days, Guy went […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Guy’s Back (Pun Intended)
September 9, 2025
After a rather intense week consisting of physical therapy, multiple chiropractor visits, gym visits, and targeted exercises, Guy was “back” from herniated disc hindrances, and able to attend at least all spectator events scheduled. That included five high school football games, a pair of races, and college volleyball. Even with missing two games the week […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Let’s Pretend
September 2, 2025
We were all set for three high school varsity games, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Unfortunately, Guy injured his back and has been in almost constant severe pain since Wednesday. Unable to withstand a long car ride and barely able to walk, plans for Thursday through Monday all had to be cancelled. We did manage to […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: One More Time
August 26, 2025
We went back and forth during spring and summer as to whether or not we wanted to continue to write the weekly blog for PA Football News this fall, but after doing it four years, five seemed a nice round number so with the blessing of the boss Billy Splain (Rock on, brother!), whom we […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2024 Annual Review
December 30, 2024
2024.34. We started the blog in 2021 as “PA Football News” freshmen. Four years later, we graduate as seniors. This is the 34th week we blogged about football this year, well above half of the weeks for the entire year. Not too shabby! Guy made it to 64 football games this season, just a bit […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 2024 All Snack Bar Team
December 23, 2024
2024 Episode 33. Just for fun after the 2021 season, we came up with our first District 11 All Snack Bar Team, since one of the ways we try to support local high school football is to eat dinner at the games. Readers got a big kick out of it, and our Snack Bar of […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: The Only Game in Town
December 17, 2024
2024 Episode 32. We thought that our 2024 football season was over a week earlier when Northwestern Lehigh scored in overtime to defeat Avonworth for the PIAA 3A state championship. We thought wrong. After the NCAA D3 Susquehanna River Hawks upset the Saint John’s Johnnies in Minnesota, we looked at the bracket to see where […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 3A GOLD!
December 10, 2024
2024 Episode 31. Since Guy retired in 2015, he has gone to all the state championship games at all classifications. If he had gone to all six games this year, he would have set a new personal record for the number of football games seen in a year. But this year was different. Pam had […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: And Then There Was One
December 3, 2024
2024 Episode 30. Pam’s knee replacement rehab is going well, ahead of schedule actually. She was able to walk a mile on day 11, and flexion measured at 92 degrees, both ahead of the two-week benchmark goals. She made it to Bethlehem for Thanksgiving dinner with her stepfather, but she was not ready for football […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: A Saturday Double
November 27, 2024
2024 Episode 29. Pam’s knee replacement surgery went well, and she is hitting the rehab hard, already ahead of all benchmark metrics for one week out. However, it is likely she will miss the last three weeks of the high school season. With Guy solo, he initially chose three sporting events for the weekend: High […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: And Then There Were Four
November 20, 2024
2024 Episode 28. It was our last week before Pam’s first knee replacement surgery on the 19th. If all goes well, the second one will happen six to eight weeks later. With that in mind, it was mostly “Pam’s Pick” last week. We ended up at PIAA 3A field hockey semi-finals on Tuesday, District 11 […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: A Game of Inches…And Seconds
November 13, 2024
2024 Episode 27. This past week we chose high school football on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday we went with a Wilkes University “Home Run” of Women’s Swimming, Men’s Swimming, Women’s Ice Hockey, and Wrestling. Sunday we were on the fence between Moravian Equestrian and Bucknell Women’s Rowing, choosing the latter as it was a […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Some D11 Upsets but not in Whitehall
November 6, 2024
2024 Episode 26. This week’s events found us at high school football Thursday and Friday, auto racing Saturday, college ice hockey on Sunday, and an unexpected field hockey game. With no fewer than six Thursday night games with D11 teams, we had more choices than ever. Since we like to see as many different teams […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 32-4 = Some Good Football
October 30, 2024
2024 Episode 25. There were three football games on our schedule this week, plus one auto race. The three games checked off a trio of mini goals for the season. Friday was Pam’s pick, but Guy gave up six of our yoga classes to stay home with a flurry of construction workers so that Pam […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Add the Subregion Teams
October 23, 2024
2024 Episode 24. Five football games out of a six-sporting event week. Racing on Sunday was the only other sport besides high school football Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, and Monday. This year three 1A teams from District 2 were combined with the three 1A teams from District 11 for a Subregion come playoff […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Let’s Play Two
October 16, 2024
2024 Episode 23. It was another busy sports week for us, with seven events on our schedule including four District 11 high school football games, two varsity / two JV. Our other three this week were Wilkes NCAA D3 men’s soccer, Penn State Altoona D3 ice hockey, and a Saturday ace in New York. The […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Back Home and New Territory
October 9, 2024
2024 Episode 22. We only made a pair of games this week. On Thursday we returned to the old stomping ground at the Bethlehem Area School District to see the Freedom Patriots run their record to 7-0, fairly easily defeating previously two-loss Bethlehem Catholic in a city rivalry matchup. On Friday we ended up at […]
