DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan sports reporter Tom Kowalski, who was a fixture on the Detroit Lions beat for many years, has died at age 51.
Kowalski's employer, Booth Newspapers, reports he was found unresponsive Monday morning by his fiance Dee Diane Wolan. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Oakland County's Commerce Township.
Kowalski started his Lions reporting at The Oakland Press, and one of his biggest stories was the 1982 Super Bowl in Pontiac, Mich. He joined Booth in 1997 and later became one of MLive.com's most-read reporters.
He also co-hosted a statewide sports talk show on WDFN-AM in Detroit and regularly appeared on Fox affiliate WJBK-TV. Co-worker Ansar Khan says Kowalski knew the Lions "inside and out" and "had an incredible work ethic."
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