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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State will go into Sundays game against No. 21 Florida on a roll.Seven Seminoles scored in double figures as their 118-63 victory over Nicholls State on Thursday was the most points scored in Leonard Hamiltons 15 seasons.The previous mark was 109 set in last years opener against Nicholls State. The 55 point margin is the seventh largest in school history.We made it a priority to keep our foot on the gas and not take any possessions on either side of the floor off. Tonight was a step in the right direction, said Xavier Rathan-Mayes, who had 16 points.FSU (9-1) -- which won its fifth straight -- has been locked in on offense the past two games, especially from the perimeter as they have made 31 3-pointers, including 17 on Thursday.PJ Savoy led the Seminoles in scoring for the second straight game. The sophomore junior college transfer had 18 points with all of them coming on 3-pointers. He has made 13 in the past two games.He stretches the floor for us. We expect them to make those shots and everyone is looking to him on the floor to get him the ball, Hamilton said.Florida State also had 32 assists, which is tied for third in school history, with seven coming from Rathan-Mayes.Dwayne Bacon also scored 16 while Braian Angola-Rodas added 14 and Trent Forrest 13.Florida State led throughout, scoring the games 14 points as it was 25 of 37 from the field in the first half and shot 62.5 percent (45 of 72 for the game). It was up by 29 by the time Nicholls State reached double figures with 6:51 remaining in the first half. The Seminoles would lead by as many as 57 late in the game.JaDante Frye led Nicholls State (4-5) with 17 points and Jahvaughn Powell added 14. The Colonels were missing leading scorer DeAndre Harris (16.1 points per game), who remained on campus to deal with what coach Richie Riley described as academic issues.They jumped us early and took us out of anything we wanted to do, Riley said.BIG PICTURENicholls State: The Colonels were 4-3 at one point, which was their best start in six seasons. However they have dropped their last two by an average of 43.5 points.Florida State: The Seminoles have recorded two of the 13 largest blowouts in school history in their past two games (they beat Southern Mississippi by 49 on Tuesday). However things wont be easy against the Gators.CENTURY MARKFlorida State has scored in triple digits three times this season, which is the most since they had three in 1994-95. It is the eighth time in Hamiltons tenure they have scored over 100. The Seminoles also had a chance for 100 earlier this season against Iona (99-78) and Southern Miss (98-49) but elected to dribble out the clock instead of taking a shot.MOVING UPHamilton got his 265th win at Florida State, which moves him into ninth in Atlantic Coast Conference history. With his next win, he would tie former North Carolina State coach Norm Sloan for eighth.INJURIESFlorida States Jonathan Isaac missed his third straight game due to a hip flexor and Phil Cofer (foot) was also held out as a precaution for the second straight game. Both are expected to be available for Sundays game.UP NEXTNicholls State: The Colonels host Thomas University, which is an NAIA school, on Sunday.Florida State: The Seminoles host No. 21 Florida on Sunday. 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According the Toronto Star, a knee injury will keep Sundin out of the lineup, which includes former teammates Gary Roberts, Darcy Tucker, Tie Domi and Curtis Joseph.STAMFORD, Conn. -- Two people in a recording booth deep inside a Connecticut office park are helping millions of blind Americans feel part of the Olympics like never before.For the first time in the U.S., NBC is airing the Olympics in prime time with additional narrators who simply report whats happening on screen -- a sort of closed captioning for the visually impaired. Most viewers wont even know the additional narrators are there; to hear them, you need to turn on special cable-box or TV settings to activate their audio track. But their running blow-by-blow can open things up for the blind, who at best get an incomplete picture from traditional sportscasting that takes visuals for granted.I love the Olympics, says Marlaina Lieberg, 66, whos been blind since birth and has long bugged her sighted husband to describe the athletic events. Im so happy Im going to be able to sit back, watch the Olympics like anybody else, know whats going on, not have to imagine or wonder. Thats huge.DESCRIBING THE SUNSETOn a recent Wednesday, narrator Norma Jean Wick opens the Olympics broadcast in a neutral, almost robotic tone, saying Golden orange sunset in Rio de Janeiro as music swells over a shot of the city. Night has fallen, she continues, right after NBCs Bob Costas intones, Aaaand here we go.Wick and Jim Van Horne, both Canadian sports broadcasting veterans, devoted hours to studying the sports and NBC commentators speech patterns. They aim to wedge in short sentences or even a few words amid the often breathless announcing. At one point during a beach volleyball match, Wick mostly limits herself to reciting the score -- otherwise invisible to those who cant see -- in-between points.While they try not to talk over announcers, it happens. During a pause, Van Horne notes that U.S. player Kerri Walsh Jennings was waiting for the wind to die down to serve; the announcers started up again before he finished his sentence. Blind viewers say sometimes they cant hear the NBC announcers in the crosstalk.Finding the right words can be difficult, said Wick, who keeps stacks of notes in front of her. When you say a spike, what does that mean? When you say a tumbling pass, well, what are they doing exactly?CAPTIONS FOR THE BLINDWhile closed captioning for the deaf today is ubiquitous, most people who arent visually impaired have never heard of audio description or video description, as this sort of narration is formally known. It was developed for U.S. TV in the 1980s, and is now available for certain prime-time series and childrens shows on the major broadcaast networks and a few cable channels.dddddddddddd Descriptions are also available in many movie theaters, on Netflix and during some live theater.For a long time, the visually impaired didnt know how much they were missing from TV shows and movies, says Paul Schroeder, head of programs and policy at the American Foundation for the Blind. If youre trying to follow a program, you need to know the basis of whats going on. The car chase, the gun shots, the subtle or not-so-subtle look across the room.But live TV events are much harder to narrate because theres no script, and as a result narrated sports events remain rare in the U.S. All that raises the level of difficulty for NBCs narrators.The aim is to provide what and how, says Van Horne -- what an individual is wearing, the expression on their face, how did they fall, how did they twist the ankle. Not only can the blind follow the action, they can also connect with the emotional upheavals that are as much a part of the Olympics as the sports.Karen Gourgey, 68, the director of a center that trains blind people to use technology at Baruch College in New York, normally finds herself bored by the Olympics, for obvious reasons, she says. Now, though, shes getting more specifics when medals are presented -- this ones in tears, that ones hugging, all the stupid stuff. Shes learned that a gymnast used the whole floor during a tumbling routine and that swimmers perch on starting blocks before they dive into the pool.You can still get quite electrified, she says.HARD-TO-SEE CONTROLSNarration for the blind isnt always easy to find or operate on TV. Lori Scharff, a 41-year-old blind social worker on New Yorks Long Island, cant activate the setting herself because shed have to navigate a TV-screen menu. She cant just leave them running all the time, either, because they share a track with Spanish-language audio that kicks in when a show isnt narrated for the blind (as most are not).Advocates credit Comcast, which owns NBC, for producing a cable box that audibly recites menu options in a mechanical female voice. That lets the blind activate narration without help from someone who can see. All major cable and satellite TV providers are required to provide similar audio features by Dec. 20.It can also be hard to know what shows gets narrated. Program guides on TV dont always include that information, although many networks and blind advocacy groups track those shows online. ' ' '