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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.

With no parachutes, no life preservers, no rafts and no radios, the four planes guided by eight U.S.