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E CONTROLSNarration for the blind isnt always easy to find or operate

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars named Doug Marrone as their interim head coach Monday, less than 24 hours after firing Gus Bradley with two games left in the season.Marrone had been Jacksonvilles assistant head coach/offensive line coach since January 2015. He joined the team after two seasons as the head coach in Buffalo, where he guided the Bills to a 15-17 record before opting out of his contract because of uncertainty over possible organizational changes.Marrone coached the Bills to a 9-7 record in 2014, which to date is their only winning record since 2004.Bradley hired Marrone in 2015 to replace offensive line coach George Yarno, who left the team after being diagnosed with cancer. Marrone interviewed with five teams that had head-coaching vacancies after the 2015 season, but was not offered a job.Marrone also has been a head coach on the collegiate level, going 25-25 at Syracuse from 2009 to 2012.Bradley was fired Sunday after Jacksonville suffered its ninth straight loss, a 21-20 defeat to the Houston Texans. The Jaguars went 14-48 in parts of four seasons under Bradley.Its unclear at this point if Marrone will be considered as a permanent replacement for Bradley. If the Jaguars look outside the organization, Bradley hopes that anyone interested will give him a call. He has a lot to tell them about owner Shad Khan, general manager Dave Caldwell and the rest of the organization.I hope they do, because itll be a long conversation and itll be a very, very positive conversation, Bradley said Monday at meeting with local media at the Marriott at TPC Sawgrass. Im telling you, this organization, with this ownership and this front office and support staff, is unbelievable. Its easy for me to say when Im hired and Im a part of it, but I just got let go yesterday.Bradley said he still considers Khan a friend and called him phenomenal. He also said that while the Jaguars are in the midst of the most disappointing season in franchise history, he believes the next head coach is set up for success because of Khan, Caldwell and the amount of talent in the locker room.I think youre coming into a situation where this is a hungry, chip-on-the-shoulder team, so if a coach was looking at this youd say, [its a] pretty good situation, Bradley said.The Jaguars are now 2-12 in a season in which they were expected to compete for the AFC South title. The Jaguars have not won a game at EverBank Field since Dec. 13, 2015.The record, what took place, I take full responsibility for it, Bradley said. I have no excuses. I have no misgivings. ... I understand the NFL is a business and its results-orientated and we didnt get it done.As far as being given the opportunity, [Khan] provided everything that we needed and so did Dave.Some players took the news of Bradleys firing pretty hard and made their feelings known on social media. Nose tackle Roy Miller was one of those, and he said again Monday morning that he wasnt happy.I think everybody knows the head coach always gets the blame, but hes not the only one that made mistakes, Miller said. In the end thats where were at. Everyone is trying to find a reason, an excuse. Weve been trying to do that all year. It pisses me off because as a player you have a lot of responsibility. You hate to see the head man take it all. Baltimore Ravens Jaleel Scott Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. Baltimore Ravens Kenny Young Jersey . 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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. 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