Condolences and tributes are pouring in from across the football world after Don Banks, a longtime NFL columnist and former Patriots writer, passed away at the age of 56 early Sunday morning in Canton, Ohio
Banks was hired last month by the Las Vegas Review-Journal to cover the NFL and was in Canton to cover the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. According to the Review-Journal, he was found unresponsive in his hotel room Sunday morning and pronounced dead. His wife, Alyssa, told the paper that Banks died in his sleep.