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Reflecting on the press, he later noted, "The press has pretensions of being a crusader but is more often a preserver of the status quo."

I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.

In a tempest of tragedy, basketball was his life preserver.

Landon Knack has been a human life preserver for the Dodgers, an unsung rookie right-hander who has helped keep the rotation afloat when seas get a little rough.

In his life preserver he looked like a beached walrus.