Carl Bialik
Carl Bialik
, a co-founder of Gelf, is a writer for
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Covering Tennis Without A Net
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What It's Like To Pick Up Tennis In Your 50s
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Score One For Sabermetrics!
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LOVE That: The Sam Walker Story
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Meeting Madden
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'Up' Fails to Soar as High as Its Score
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This Terminator 'Takes Itself Far More Seriously' Than Previous Installments
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'Much too Cutesy and Anthropomorphic for Its Own Good'
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'Too Smart for Its Own Good'
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'
The Dark Knight
Was a Better Film'
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This Cartoon Will Scare Your Sensitive Tykes 'Shitless'
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Curiously, 'Button' Is 'Not Entirely Satisfying'
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Dialogue That Crashes Down on the Big Themes Like a Blacksmith’s Hammer
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The Best Worst Blurbs of 2008
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'Dumb but Fun Time Killer'
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Australia
Is 'Windy, Overblown, Utterly Preposterous'
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'Bolt' Is Revolutionary Breakthrough! (Says Studio)
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Is It Healthy? Wrathy? Toothy? Worthy?
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'Whatever You Think of Dubya, He Has Balls. The Movie Doesn't.'
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'A Spasmodic Exercise in the Void'
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Dallas Dynasty
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'An Unfortunate Title if Ever There Was One '
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The Coens' Emotion-Free, Uneven Thriller
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Reviews Shakespeare Never Got: 'Spotty and Sporadic'
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'A Textbook Definition of an Uneven Comedy'
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'The Tired Tenseness of Anchors on C-SPAN'
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'Batman' a Masterpiece? 'That Feeling Will Pass'
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Diamonds are for Everyone
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'Dumbed Down' Hulk Meets Lesser Goals
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'Five TV Episodes Strung Together'
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'Ridiculous Exchanges Don't Help' Indy
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Phenomenal Actor in Failure of a Movie
Books
From Cripple to Workhorse to Legend
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Forgetting 'Sarah Marshall's Predecessors
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'Leatherheads' Is Good. Or Is It?
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Insert Pun on 'Flawless' Here
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Where Sport Isn't a Day Job
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The National Pastime's Pugilistic Side
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Ink-Stained Investigators
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A Good Film, From Blurb Writers' Vantage Point
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The Charles Van Doren of College Hoops
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'All You Have To Do Is Open a Vein'
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After Althea and Ashe
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Katherine Heigl 'Settles for So Much Less'
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A Time and Place When African Americans Were Called 'Negroes'
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The Best Worst Blurbs of 2007
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The Fan's Savior Cometh
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The 'Boob Job' Fan
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The Awkward Charmer With Annoying Friends
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A Rickety Brass Compass
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The Sports Speculator
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Ravaging Final Scene of 'Savages'
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Like Father, Like Son
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Ben's Uneven Debut
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Profiles in Distress
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Elizabeth's Tarnished Reviews
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Wes Anderson's Clumsy, Precious, Limited Treasure
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A Card Above All Others
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Please Repress This Film's Irrepressible Energy
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Loaded Quotes
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Football in the Time of Katrina
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An Incidental Swan Song
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'Jane' Becomes a Little Unsatisfying
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A Spectacular Film. Also Banal.
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Harry Potter's Latest 'Not a Great Movie'
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Baseball's Conservative Revolutionary
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The Power of Live Sports
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Danny Ocean: Now With 100% Real Laughs!
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Bane of Cheerleaders, Champion of the Little Guys
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One Sports Fan's Dream Year
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An Irish Hoops Odyssey
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Web of Deceit
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When Jesse Owens Raced in Front of Hitler
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A Hoax About a Hoax About 'Hoax'
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A Must-See, Until the 'Inane Letdown'
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A Voice Above All Others
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Baseball in 17 Syllables or Less
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Great Film. Oh, Except the Lead Actor Can't Act.
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'Wild Hogs' Is Hysterically Funny. Well, Sometimes. Mostly Its Premise.
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Chronicling the Seamier Side of Sports
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Baseball's Unofficial Chat Room
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ESPN's Newest NBA Writer
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The Quickie Way to Follow Sports
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Sports Bloggers' Benevolent King
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Mets Bloggers Who Can't Wait for Next Year
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Eddie Murphy's 'Huge, Belching Spectacular'
Zooming In
Valentine's Day Is for Lovers and the Rich
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Come See the Film That Rocked the Box Office Despite Bad Reviews
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Basketball's Forgotten Legend
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A Quiet Football Visionary
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Hockey's Black Pioneers
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Curt Flood's Tragic Fight
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I Like! (Some But Not All Things About This Movie)
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Billy Wagner, Baseball Philosopher
Government
Marble's Memorable Mississippi Moment
Sports
Does ESPN Cheer Republicans?
Oops
When Reporters Make News
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If You Quote the Reviews Accurately, the Terrorists Have Won
Oops
The Sun Also Rises on the Moon
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Sticking Up for the Refs
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My Two Years With Barry Bonds
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Journey to 'Fantasyland'
Oops
Don't Quote Me on That
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'Bad Movie, Good Actors'
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An Interview With The Smoking Gun
Oops
We Spoke Too Soon
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Double Team
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Albert Brooks, an Acquired Taste
Oops
So Long, Plagiarists
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Scare Quotes
Media
Pill-Popping
Internet
An Interview With the Consumerist
Oops
Floodwater, Anyone?
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2005's Best-Reviewed Steve Carell Movie
World
Fighting for Press Freedom in Uganda
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Irony Is Lost on the Copywriters
Oops
Playing Defense
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Playing Defense, Continued
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Hustled
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Fantastic Four
Is No Fun
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Fuzzy Math and MollyMath
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Blind Justice
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Corrections 6/27-7/3
Law
Mark Cuban on
Grokster
, Redux
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Blurb Racket 6/24/05
Internet
America's Most-Eligible Blogger
Oops
Corrections 5/30-6/19
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Blurb Racket 6/18/05
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Blurb Racket 6/5/05
Oops
Corrections 5/23-5/29
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Blurb Racket 5/31/05
Oops
Corrections 5/16-5/22
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Blurb Racket 5/24/05
Media
What We Can Learn From Michelle Delio
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Corrections 5/9-5/15
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Corrections 5/2-5/9
The Blurbs
Blurb Racket 5/9/05
World
Rumors and Innuendo
Nature
Fast and Loose
Oops
Corrections 4/25-5/1
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Blurb Racket 4/29/05
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Blurb Racket 4/22/05
World
Craving Human Contact
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Blurb Racket 4/17/05
Oops
Corrections 4/4-4/11
Zooming In
Zooming In 4/9/05
The Blurbs
Blurb Racket 4/8/05
Sports
Bracketology Redux
Oops
Corrections 3/28-4/3
Zooming In
Zooming In 4/2/05
Buried lead
Budget Sucksbut At Least It's On-Time!
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Blurb Racket 4/1/05
Law
Mark Cuban on
Grokster
The Blurbs
The Blurb Racket, 3/25/05
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Sharing the Love
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Gambling Man
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Bubble Fatigue II
Oops
Corrections 3/14-3/20
Film
The Blurb Racket
Sports
Off the Mark
Ad Watch
Pill Gets Rave Reviews
Oops
Corrections 3/7-3/13
Sports
Bubble Fatigue
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Goon Factory?
Sports
Ugly Americans
Film
Hungry Man
Buried lead
What Do the Prisoners Watch?
Oops
Corrections 2/28-3/6
Oops
Corrections 2/21-2/28
Oops
Corrections 2/14-2/20
Media
Warning: This Post Advocates Tolerance
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Patriots Defeat Nazi Germany
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Too Many Sports Guys
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The Wild Op-Ed Page
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Blogging Sucks. Visit My Blog
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Pitchman From the Beyond
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Don't Dis Jackson; Reggie White, Karaite
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Our Favorite Corrections, 1/29-2/13
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Redick's Rhymes
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Awful Human Beings
Internet
Google Games
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Where Did This Idea Come From?
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Teddy Bear Update
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Fox Is Pro-People
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Teddy Bears' Aphrodisiac Powers
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