Telemundos Adan Manzano Death at 27 while covering Super Bowl 2025

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Adan Manzano, a sports reporter who covers Chiefs died Wednesday while on task for the Super Bowl 2025 in New Orleans for Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports, KGKC General Manager Steve Downing said in a statement on Thursday.

A cause of death was not immediately made available, and Downing said in his statement that the network “cooperated with law enforcement as they investigate this tragic event.”

“As KGKC’s Sports Anchor & Reporter, Adan was a true professional and a rising star that exemplified expertise in his work,” Downing continued in his statement. “We will deeply miss Adan and his passion for sports and the contributions he made to the local community. Our thoughts and heartfelt compassion go out to his family and loved ones in this difficult time. “

Manzano was 27 years old, According to KMBC, ABC -attached in Kansas City.

Adan Manzano worked as a sports reporter for Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports. Facebook/Adan Manzano
Adan Manzano who worked as a sports reporter for
Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports are depicted on a
Royals games. Facebook/Adan Manzano
Adan Manzano had covered each of Chiefs’ last two Super Bowls. Facebook/Adan Manzano

Manzano had been working on KGKC since April 2021, according to his LinkedInside, and after the native Mexico City moved to Topka, can., In 2018, he trained from Kansas State, According to a KSNT -History from 2024.

“I used to dream of this, but I never expected it to come soon,” Manzano told the business before the Super Bowl 2024 when he worked as a sideline reporter. “It’s just a blessing.”

In his last X post, Manzano wrote a picture of Mahomes with a large collection of journalists gathered around his table on the Super Bowl opening evening with the line, “Mahomes vs el Mundo” -which translates to “Mahomes vs. World.”

He also published a photo Sunday with a Super Bowl 2025 character and expressed gratitude for being able to cover the event for a third time when Chiefs went on three peat.

Months after last year’s Super Bowl, Manzano’s wife, Ashleigh Boyd, was killed in a car accident after a driver crossed the midline and hit their car, According to Ksnt.

The couple’s 1-year-old daughter, who was in the car with her mother, survived.

Adan Manzano, who died on Wednesday, is depicted with his wife, Ashleigh Boyd and daughter. She died in April 2024 in a car accident. Facebook/Adan Manzano

Boyd worked as a teacher at Lowman Hill Elementary School in Topka, and she told KNT before the Super Bowl 2024 that Manzano had “worked so hard on this.”

“There have been times when he has had two or three jobs to make ends meet,” Boyd said at the time. “And now he knows he’s going to go out there and do what he loves and what he’s good at, it’s just the best feelings ever.”