For those of you not a part of the Twitter generation I want to provide you a quick summary of what's gone down the last couple days because I’m sure any upright beaker hating Mizzou fan would get a kick out of it.

We start with what kick-started the entire controversy. During Saturday’s kU implosion in the fourth quarter against Texas Tech Chase Daniel posted the following tweet: “Watching KU absolutely self-destruct and loving it!!!”

Maybe you can argue that wasn’t a very classy tweet by No. 10 but does anyone really care? Don’t you think Todd Reesing would be doing the same thing if the roles were reversed? So does it matter if he posts it on his Twitter page? Mizzou and kU players generally root against each other. Not a big secret.

But, a kU blogger who had been using the Twitter username RockChalkJBlog (the account has since been disabled) took offense and posted this message: “Everyone attack @ChaseDaniel for this comment: http://twitter.com/ChaseDaniel/status/5324888541

Not exactly classy spamming a player’s twitter account but whatever, Border War, we hate each other, yada yada. Unfortunately, we were just getting started.

Following the Saints Monday night victory over the Falcons Chase posted a couple tweets describing how much he loves being a Saint and how happy he is with how his team is playing. Not surprising. If there’s one thing we know about Chase it’s that he likes to win.

This prompted more spamming by our RockChalk blogger. Unfortunately I can’t post all the tweets he posted because he’s since deleted them all but here are a few that were re-tweeted by other users: “Wow, you must have contributed so much!” “This is what @ChaseDaniel does during the Saints games: http://bit.ly/3RTE6n”

He also posted a couple Tweets about Chase choking at Arrowhead last year and posted a video of Daniel’s first half fumble in said game asking him if he saw that in his nightmares.

At this point the guys running this here blog start to take offense to what’s going on. Chase is our guy and we’re always going to have his back for what he’s done for Tiger football. So we start to fire back at this guy just like we did to Chad Dukes a few months back. We start pointing out how hilarious it is that he would criticize Chase for backing up one of the best QBs in the NFL when his own “Heisman” quarterback was benched in the 4th quarter on Saturday.

And at this point things start to get a little personal and a little heated. But again, it’s the Border War. We’re both apparently fan bloggers and sometimes this is just the nature of the beast like it or not. Some people are going to pull this shit and it’s usually just best to ignore them (or in our case launch a Twitter war against them).

But then I decide to do a little research on this blog and the kind of operation this guy is running. Come to find out the person running this blog and posting these Tweets is Joe Davis who regularly covers kU for the Associated Press. You know, the same AP that values principles like “objectivity” and “reporting without bias.” You can find his blog here and see that it links back to his Twitter profile and you can also see that he makes no attempt to conceal his true identity.

After discovering this I decided to point out to Davis that this conduct probably wasn’t wise considering his chosen profession. Minutes after I did that he deleted the tweets he had made and made his account private. A few hours after that he changed his account name from RockChalkJBlog to RockChalkJ_Blog before deleting the account altogether this morning. (I’m sure most people were thrown off by that underscore breaking ball he threw but not us. We’re sharper than you think.)

(Update: The Twitter account has been re-activated under its original username. The Chase tweets and replies to our posts are still missing oddly enough. Davis is apparently playing a strange game of cat–and-mouse. Another awesome career move on his part.)

Now I know all of you aren’t journalists so you don’t know all the ins and outs of the business. But I’m an MU grad and believe it or not my four years at the Zou taught me a thing or two about the journalism industry. Enough to know that that kind of conduct is not OK for an AP reporter like Davis.

I also know there are a lot of good unemployed sports journalists out there who I’m sure would love to have Davis’s job. Journalists who are smart enough to not do things like spam the Twitter account of a rival player of the team you're covering.

The AP is employing Davis (or publishing his work) under the assumption that he’s covering the Jayhawks as objectively as possible. His actions prove that he is making no effort at all to actually do that. Davis’s readers have a right to know that he’s betrayed their trust.

Update @8:49 p.m.: Davis's games have continued all evening long. He's deleted and reactivated his Twitter account multiple times and even briefly posed as a Mizzou blog with the username mizzourahBlogz. It culminated with him changing his profile pic to the Mizzou logo and posting tweets posing as a Mizzou fan who had hacked into his account. Note to any journalism students out there reading this, when you screw up it's generally best to just apologize and try to move on as quickly as possible. Don't do what this guy is doing. Please don't.

Watching this has given me the same feeling I got when I watched Quin Snyder's last game as Mizzou head coach when the Tigers imploded against a bad Baylor team. I was pasting feeling angry. I didn't think it was funny. I was just amazed by what I was witnessing. Things couldn't possibly get worse than they were for the Tigers but they did. They kept getting much worse. Just like they are for Davis.