HittingTheCycle.com is the online portfolio for the work of Alexander Pyles, who has been covering sports online, on the air and in print for five years for a variety of organizations while attending school in the Baltimore-Washington area.

Pyles’s work has previously been published in The Baltimore Sun, The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., CSTV.com and UMBC’s student newspaper The Retriever Weekly, for which Pyles served as Editor in Chief from 2008 to 2009.

Pyles has also won a number of national and local awards for his reporting and college journalism coursework, including the NCAA/Freedom Forum Sports Journalism Scholarship in 2008.

A resident of Baltimore, Pyles is attending graduate school at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and frequently covers UMBC Retriever sports for community news website Examiner.com. He also occasionally writes, podcasts and edits at TheBaltimorons.com, a Baltimore-centric sports blog.

Clips and a complete résumé are available for download from this website.