Jody Genessy
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Jody is a sports writer who covers the Utah Jazz for the Deseret News (yeah, rough life). He also writes about his fitness/health journey and triathlon exploits in his "Losing It!" column. He has been with the paper since 1995, writing about everything from high school and college sports to Olympic hockey, a weight-lifting great-grandma and seeing the back of Britney Spears' hat at the Sundance Film Festival. Genessy's journalism career began at (you guessed) McDonald's in Taylorsville, where he was an assistant manager and the editor-in-chief of the McD Monthly while attending college in the early 1990s. Since then, Genessy turned down an opportunity to attend Hamburger University (true story), became Sports Editor and Sports Information Director at the Salt Lake Community College, landed a gig with the Deseret News, wrote a few thousand stories, won a few national and local awards his poor family still hears about - and completed an Ironman triathlon, to boot. The Herriman resident - and proud Kearns native - is the father of three adorable children and the husband of one smoking-hot wife, Heather. He served an LDS mission in Switzerland and France from 1990-92, so please pardon his French.
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The Utah Jazz must have used up all their luck last year when they jumped up to the No. 3 spot in the 2011 NBA Draft.
The NBA's draft lottery will take place in New Jersey beginning at 6 p.m. (ESPN), and the 2012 picking pecking order and the Jazz's first-round fortune are both up for grabs.
The Idaho Stampede have entered an exclusive partnership with Portland after teaming with the Jazz, Blazers and Nuggets last season.
Kevin O'Connor has some new responsibilities and another title.
Before LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Team USA take on the world this summer, they'll have to deal with a couple of Utah Jazz players.
The Utah Jazz feel the same way about big players as Marvel comic books creator Stan Lee and moviegoers feel about superheroes.

Some random bits and blurbs from the Utah Jazz's locker cleanout:

Al Jefferson on Derrick Favors' potential: "He feel like he can just jump over and dunk over everybody. Once he learn how to play the game, i

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Lockers were cleaned. Boxes were packed. Goodbyes and laughs were exchanged. But the future of the Jazz remains a mystery.
The morning after being swept by San Antonio, most Utah Jazz players talked about how satisfying their past playoff season was and expressed optimism for the future.
The Utah Jazz's postseason ended earlier than the team and its fans hoped it would. The season lasted four games longer than most people thought it would.