Mike Lynch

In last week’s Starwatch, I described at least some of the celestial treasures waiting for you within the great constellation Orion the Hunter. You can have a lot of fun checking them out with even a small telescope or binoculars. You can dig for other tr... See more

Sports Reference Blog Full Game-Level Participation Data for the 1960s NFL and AFL Added Posted by Mike Lynch on January 9, 2026 Pro Football Reference is proud to announce that we have added starting lineups and participation data for the entire decade o... See more

Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell talks about Charles Schulz on the Unpacking Peanuts podcast . "To me, what I love about cartooning is the magic how these little abstracts, pen and ink drawings come alive on the page and you really connect with the char... See more

It would be his 122nd birthday today. Michael Maslin, who wrote the great bio of Arno ( Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist ), weighs in and quotes many New Yorker cartoonists on the man . Here's one of my favorite stori... See more

For more than a decade, state biologists in New York have captured wild spruce grouse in northern Maine and Canada, and relocate them to remote boreal forests in the northern Adirondacks. The spruce grouse is an endangered species in New York . The recove... See more