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sports Diaranson 9 Februari 2022

Serena Williams wants to express joy through Super Bowl ad

(AP) — Serena Williams is and Nneka Ogwumike for a
normally the one partici- competitive game of bowl-
pating in a major champi- ing.
onship matchup, but the
seven-time Wimbledon Williams’ commercial is part
winner will look forward of Michelob’s three-ad series.
to watching the Super She wants it to express the
Bowl along with her com- meaning of joy.
mercial.
“It’s critical for us to continue
“It’s always good to see oth- to have that,” said Williams,
er athletes just go out and who starred in a Bumble
do their thing on such a big commercial in 2019 and last
stage,” she said in a recent year’s Michelob ULTRA ad,
interview. “I’ve been on the which preached joy.
big stage so many times, it’s
so cool to experience other “I believe a big factor in suc-
athletes being on that stage.” cess is joy,” she continued. “I
go back and look at the tour-
Along with watching the naments that I’ve invested —
Bengals-Rams game, Wil- like the ones I’ve never lost a
liams will be on the lookout set in – I was so joyful.”
for her Super Bowl ad. The
tennis great stars in a Mich- Williams, who is a Comp-
elob ULTRA commercial ton, California, native, said
along with several other su- the Super Bowl will help the Rams in it, it’s just like ‘How it’s going to be one that will
perstar athletes such as Pey- growth of Inglewood, where “It’s so big for the commu- does this happen?’ It’s going go down in history.”
ton Manning, Jimmy Butler Sunday’s game will be played. nity,” she said. “With the L.A. to be an intense game. I think

Group to restore bowling alley, crux of Orangeburg Massacre

(AP) — Big plans are be- angeburg All-Star Justice The board also hopes the or offered restitution to vic-
ing realized for a once- South Carolina troop- Center hope their renovation project can jumpstart a revi- tims. State police claimed at
segregated bowling alley ers fired into the crowd on project will restore the space talization of Orangeburg, a the time that the protesters
that stands dark and dusty the outskirts of the histori- to the nation’s memories of majority-Black town of about had fired at troopers first,
54 years after state troop- cally Black campus of South the civil rights movement. 13,000 with a 27% poverty though many of the wounded
ers fired into a crowd of Carolina State University on rate. were shot in the back or the
Black students in the kill- Feb. 8, 1968, killing three and “What we’re going to have is bottoms of their feet. An FBI
ings now known as the wounding another 28 with a major national heritage site Zisholtz opened the build- investigation led to charges
“Orangeburg Massacre.” their bullets. But the shooting for Orangeburg, the state of ing’s doors last month to for nine troopers. They said
remains relatively unknown South Carolina and the na- Orangeburg residents who they acted in self-defense,
After years of neglect, the outside the state. Compared tion,” said Ellen Zisholtz, used their phones to illumi- and a jury of 10 white and
National Park Service is with the four students killed president of the Center for nate high scores painted on a two Black people acquitted
helping a non-profit group at Kent State two years later, Creative Partnerships, the side wall and shoot portraits them.
renovate the All-Star Bowl- it’s a footnote in national nar- nonprofit that purchased the against a backdrop of empty
ing Lanes, remaking it into a ratives about 1960s protests. long-empty building with lanes. Some described their Ultimately, the only person
fully-functional bowling al- about $140,000 from an relatives’ involvement in the convicted was Cleveland
ley with a civil rights theme. Planners of the future Or- anonymous donor. civil rights movement, and Sellers, a Black activist who
recalled memories of knock- was shot in the shoulder
A board of community mem- ing down pins after the bowl- and went to prison for seven
bers, survivors of the shoot- ing alley was integrated. months on rioting charges.
ing and activists of the civil He was pardoned 25 years
rights era are providing input “This is history,” said Willie later.
to shape the project. In their Dean Odom, who brought
vision, the lanes are lit up, the her children and grandchil- “We have to continue to tell
lunch counter is bustling and dren along. “I just wanted the story until justice prevails
every time someone bowls them to be a part of the mem- in South Carolina,” Sellers
a spare or a strike, a screen ories, to see what it was like.” said. He was asked to speak
above the lane supplies a fact at South Carolina State dur-
about civil rights history. A For those who lived through ing a ceremony Tuesday to
digital display on the wall will the shootings or grew up in dedicate the busts of Samuel
name visitors who’ve made a its shadow, the project is a Hammond, Delano Middle-
commitment to seeking ra- way to keep pushing for jus- ton and Henry Smith, the
cial justice. tice and to make sure the kill- three young students who
ings remain a part of South were killed. Their likenesses
A $500,000 grant to jumpstart Carolina’s story. have been installed in a mon-
the renovations came from ument on campus, the Smith
the National Park Service, In 2003, then-Gov. Mark Hammond Middleton Lega-
which has added the bowling Sanford formally apologized cy Plaza.
alley to its African American on behalf of the state. On
Civil Rights Network. The the federal level, the Justice On Tuesday’s 54th anni-
grant is paying for architec- Department has indicated as versary, the public will have
tural plans, a new roof, elec- recently as December that it one more chance to set foot
tric and plumbing repairs and is still reviewing the killings. inside the All-Star Bowl-
maybe even some work on ing Lanes before renovation
façade, Zisholtz said. But the state has never con- work starts.
ducted its own formal probe