The best Twitter feud in sports is officially over

Longtime readers of this website will know the outright glee we possess whenever Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch and ESPN’s Darren Rovell get into a Twitter War.  When those two start trading barbs on social media, it’s like discovering you’re favorite movie randomly replaying on television – you just have to sit down and watch it no matter what time it is or what else you may be doing.

Deitsch and Rovell have had some classic battles over the years on topics ranging from the Winter Olympics to tennis to phone chargers.  They were last seen sparring over photo credits on Twitter.

And now, the war has officially come to an end.  Over the weekend, Darren Rovell blocked Richard Deitsch on Twitter.

Discovered I've been blocked by Mr. Rovell. Probably the best for both of us psychically, emotionally and intellectually,

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) December 6, 2014

It’s tough to say who the winner is in this years-long conflict, but there is a clear loser – the American people.  It’s a sad, sad day at AA HQ to know that we’ll no longer be able to get the popcorn out for another classic Deitsch-Rovell Twitter War.  All we can do is publicly plead with Rovell to reconsider.  Hopefully at least Deitsch will continue to still subtweet the bejeezus out of Rovell.

And at the very least, we’ll always have our memories.  To look back one final time, here’s the Top 10 cannon shots across the bow from the epic Deitsch-Rovell feud…

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@darrenrovell That's a fascinating line of thinking for someone who is a reporter and not a PR consultant.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) September 16, 2014

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@viv_bernstein @richarddeitsch because that 80 cent car charger is really going to compromise my integrity.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 3, 2013

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https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/184076135666159616

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@richarddeitsch the man on the street could lie to anyone. If did more reporting instead of writing columns, you’d realize that.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 6, 2012

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@darrenrovell Given your publishing of fake escort services, you might want to ease up on the business lessons, Warren Buffet.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 6, 2012

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@richarddeitsch that’s not a reasonable expectation. You subtweet me what, 200 times a year?

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 3, 2013

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@darrenrovell I talked to your old boss Mark Lazarus. He said he misses the 15,000 people who watched your CNBC show.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) February 18, 2014

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@richarddeitsch right, because your TV guide is so much better when it’s written from Russia.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 18, 2014

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@darrenrovell You talking about reporting is Darren Rovell talking about reporting.

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) February 18, 2014