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Serena Williams should be banned from the U.S. Open not because she threatened a judge, but because she threatened a person at the event. Nobody should be threatened the way the judge was threatened.

One of the best female tennis players in the world absolutely lost it last weekend. Serena Williams allegedly threatened to kill a judge and even said she would shove the f-ing ball down the judge's f-ing throat because of a bad call the judge made on a critical game point.

Having played in tennis tournaments and still do play privately, I am very familiar with what happaned. A judge during a tennis match accused Serena Williams of a foot fault, whereby this occurs when the person serving steps over the line, however this is extremely rare, difficult to prove, and even reviewing a replay, Serena Williams did not commit a foot fault.

I believe an issue of race was involved.

While I believe Serena Williams should be banned, I also believe the judge should be investigated, as to her partiality. I am wondering if she has a history of this. Personally, I think she was trying to find a beam in Serena Willilams' eyes because this may have been a race issue. Black players are simply not welcomed in tennis; that's just the way it is. If it is determined that the judge has a history of being partial and making bad decisions, like she clearly did in the case of Serena Williams' foot fault, then she should be banned from the U.S. Open as well.

The judge's potential racism is no excuse though for Serena Williams' actions.

I have no problem with her vehemently disagreeing with the judge or even referring to her as a racist if she wanted, which is what she should have done. I have no problem with her publicly exposing the judge to the fans for her bad call. Look, I rip into corrupt judges of law both inside courtrooms and I expose them when they are run for office; God knows how bad our "justice" system is. There is a right and wrong way to disagree with a corrupt judge in sports.

Serena Williams committed the crimes of aggrevated menacing, inciting to violence, and disorderly conduct although law enforcement is too weak to prosecute.

And her lying during the press conference after the match did not help her cause. She did what any liar would do, which was to say she did not remember what she said to the judge. Are you kidding me. The incident happened less than an hour before the press conference, yet she did not remember: Liar.

Her lies further evince why she should be banned, as she was concealing what happened and hoping her abusive behavior would simply float away.