“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Elliot Hicks
Elliot Hicks serves as In-Between Media's head of racing content. The longest-tenured contributor to the site, Hicks is the regular host of The Backroad, IBT's weekly NASCAR betting and fantasy NASCAR live show. He also contributes to the site with weekly betting articles and occasional columns.
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Through the Field: Welcomed Predictability
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Through the Field: NASCAR Physics 101
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support season-long, Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. …
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Through The Field: A Look Behind the Curtain
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support season-long, Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. …
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Through the Field: Riskin’ It
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Through the Field: The Game of Retaliation
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Through the Field: Playing It Smart
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Through the Field: Chaos Brewing for Texas Motor Speedway
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes read“Through the Field” is a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks. It follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot …
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Through the Field: On to Kansas Speedway
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes read“Through the Field,” a seasonal column by Elliot Hicks, follows the NASCAR season and provides broad driver analysis to support Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and NASCAR betting. Elliot is in …
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Though the Field: Daytona Dreaming
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readThe battle for the final spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs is on. 16 drivers will advance into the playoffs following this Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway …
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Through the Field: Not Done Yet
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readI noticed a common thread with the two most recent NASCAR Cup Series winners. Despite the many differences, from career experience to driving style and much more in-between, Tyler Reddick …
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Through the Field: Persisting Through Penalties
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readThe current big story in the NASCAR Cup Series garage is penalties. Following the race at Pocono on Sunday, both the first and second-place finishing cars, driven by Denny Hamlin …
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Through the Field: Year of the Underdog
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readWho doesn’t love a good underdog story? We nearly had one of the biggest ones in recent NASCAR Cup Series history at Atlanta this past weekend, with Corey LaJoie coming …
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Through the Field: Red, White & Road America
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readWith the summertime finally in full swing, this coming weekend brings us perhaps the best weekend of the summer, the celebration of Independence Day. And although it doesn’t feel like …
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Through the Field: Having Fun
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readAs summertime is in full swing and the NASCAR Cup Series has its only off weekend of the season ahead of us, it’s the perfect time to talk a bit …
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Through the Field: All-Star Stories
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readThe 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season has been nothing but stellar so far, and it’s brought to light continued success for two of the best stories in the Cup Series …
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Through the Field: First Impressions
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readAs we are now 11 races into the era of the “Next Gen” NASCAR Cup Series car, it’s safe to say that the first impression has been made. Generally, it …
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Through the Field: Speed Bump
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readLet’s be honest. This past week’s Cup Series race at Martinsville was a severe letdown compared to the expectations for the Next Gen car’s first race at the track known …
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Through the Field: A New Point of View
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readWriting this column has changed my life. No, not really in any profound way that has me praising to the heavens (not yet, at least.) But it’s changed the way …
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Through the Field: Racing Restart
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readAt the risk of sounding like a broken record as I start off season three of sorts of “Through the Field,” a new start is quite often a good thing, …
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Through the Field: Finish Line
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readThough you may have thought the previous “Through the Field” column was the final one of the year, we’ve got one more for you to enjoy before a nice winter …
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Through the Field: The Last Stop
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readAs we enter the final weekend of the 2021 NASCAR season in Phoenix, so too ends the first full season of “Through the Field” columns here at In-Between Media. While …
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Through the Field: Circumstance
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readOne of the tough things about the lives we live is that not everything goes the way we want it to. Of course, it would all be so much better …
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Through the Field: The Road Less Traveled
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readAs the NASCAR Cup Series season is nearing its end, so too are the “Through The Field” columns for 2021. And while I have a few column ideas in the …
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Through the Field: Fight for Your Right
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 8 minutes readHonestly, who doesn’t love a good feud between racers after a good Saturday night of short track racin’? That’s exactly what we saw following this past weekend’s night race at …
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Through the Field: Back to the Track
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readAt this point, you’ve realized I’ve been a longtime racing fan, following the sport closely since I was a kid. What you may be surprised to know is that I …
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Through the Field: Last Chance
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readAsk anyone who knows anything about NASCAR racing: What’s the one track that combines prominence, honor and prestige with chaos, mayhem and bedlam? Daytona. Of course, Daytona starts off the …
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Through the Field: Road Course Twists & Turns
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readThe name of this column, “Through the Field,” has two separate meanings. On the racing side, it refers to the drivers racing and moving through the field of cars to …
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Through the Field: Make the Jump
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readThe worst-kept secret in NASCAR was finally revealed last week as it was announced that 2012 Cup Series champion driver Brad Keselowski was leaving Team Penske, his home since 2010, …
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Through the Field: Break Time
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readFollowing the upcoming weekend of racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the top NASCAR touring series will do something it often doesn’t do mid-season: Take a break. The 2021 schedules …
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Through the Field: Expect the Unexpected
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readIf Saturday’s opening race of the Pocono double-header race weekend for the NASCAR Cup Series taught us one thing, it’s this: Nothing is over until it’s over. This fact hit …
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Through the Field: Summer Nights
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 3 minutes readSummer is upon us. While the official start of the season hasn’t quite passed on the calendar, all the traditionally great parts of summer have begun rolling. The hot weather, …
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Through the Field: Embrace Your Inner Kid
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readIt’s a great time to be a Hendrick Motorsports fan. Three of the four cars for the team have won this year, the fourth team won the championship last year …
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Through the Field: Honoring History
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 2 minutes readThis weekend is NASCAR’s annual throwback weekend in Darlington, South Carolina, where teams, drivers and everyone else involved with the sport celebrates its long heritage and history. Most teams run …
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Through the Field: The Thrill of Victory
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readFor the first time in writing this column, I get to analyze a week where my favorite driver picked up a victory. Frequent readers of the column will have long …
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Through the Field: We Can Do Better
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 7 minutes readSocial media is still a complicated, unique and unbelievable tool. I don’t know if we’ll ever fully understand its true impact on society. And, just as you would see in …
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Through the Field: Dirt Trackin’
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readSomething’s happening this coming weekend that hasn’t taken place since Richard Nixon was President, Elvis Presley visited him in the Oval Office, the first Monday Night Football took place and …
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Through the Field: A Helping Hand
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readIf you caught the NASCAR Truck Series race this past Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, you may have noticed that many of the trucks looked very similar – that’s …
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Through the Field: Nothing To Be Done
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 7 minutes readSometimes, all you can do in life is just to sit back and refer to a prominent line in Samuel Beckett’s wildly absurd “tragicomedy” of a play, “Waiting for Godot,” …
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Through the Field: A New Journey
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 4 minutes readOnce again, it’s the start of a new season. After a winter off, NASCAR returns to action at the world center of racing: Daytona International Speedway. And while it’s the …
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Through the Field: Endgame
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readThe 2020 NASCAR season is about to come to an end. The final race of the year comes in Phoenix this weekend, and just as in any season, we will …
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Through the Field: Working to the Bone
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readThere’s been one common theme among many of the drivers announced to be taking over new rides in 2021, whether it’s a Cup Series debut, expanded Xfinity role or anything …
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Through the Field: Mental Balance Behind the Wheel
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readI don’t want this column to sound hostile, but it’s time to put it bluntly: We need to take mental health seriously in America. I feel like a lot of …
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Through the Field: A Comeback Story
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readOf the eight drivers who remain in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, none have a more interesting and perhaps inspiring story of success and personal growth than Kurt Busch. You …
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Through the Field: Speak Softly & Carry a Big Stick
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 5 minutes readThe announcement that Alex Bowman will move to the No. 48 car in 2021 was another step toward realizing that Jimmie Johnson really only has five more races as a …
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Through the Field: You’ve Gotta Believe
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 7 minutes readTalladega. A track worthy enough of its own country song, a decade-old mockumentary and more racing memories – both positive or negative – than you can shake a stick at. …
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Through the Field: Betting on Yourself
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 7 minutes readI couldn’t write a NASCAR column this week and not touch on the bombshell that dropped in the Cup Series world Monday night in possibly the most-publicized and exciting driver …
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Through the Field: Doors are A-Closin’
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readWe’ve made it to the finale of the opening round of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. The first two races have come and gone and it’s time to eliminate four …
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Through the Field: The Stress of the Playoffs & Pandemic
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 6 minutes readLife has a tendency to be inherently stressful at times. Obviously, not everything will be a cakewalk. One of the greatest parts of the life we live is when we …
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Through the Field: An Introduction & the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs
by Elliot Hicksby Elliot Hicks 17 minutes readThrough the Field: An Introduction & the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Welcome to the debut column of “Through the Field.” Each week during the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, we’ll …
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