Don Banks, who covered the NFL for Sports Illustrated and The Athletic, died Sunday morning at 56, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Ed Graney.
Graney reported Banks attended the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday. Paramedics were called to his hotel room in North Canton on Sunday morning and pronounced him dead.
Banks had just begun working for the Review-Journal.
"Words can't express the depth of sadness the Review-Journal staff feels for Don's family and friends," Glenn Cook, the paper's executive editor, said.