Battle With Cancer
In his Sportsnet.ca column on Christmas Eve 2009, Kelley revealed that he was battling pancreatic cancer. He died at age 61 at Buffalo General Hospital on November 30, 2010. Earlier that morning at 1:30 a.m. (EST), he filed his final column for Sportsnet.ca. The subject was the Toronto Maple Leafs' status on the two-year anniversary of the hiring of Brian Burke as its general manager.
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“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 9:11.
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